Rural Intelligence (Page 585)

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Berkshire South Celebrates The Chambers

Amy Krzanik reports from Great Barrington. A large crowd of local businesspeople and community advocates gathered at Berkshire South Regional Community Center on Saturday, October 19 to celebrate the 10th Annual Community Gala, this year honoring the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce (SBCC), along with the Stockbridge, Lenox and Lee

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Real Estate

Fancy Feast

A magnificent dining room with built-in cabinetry and hardwood floors is just one feature that will pull you into this Lakeville shingle-style home, filled with three floors of elegant custom-design work and visually stunning details. There are three bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms, plus gracious

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Dining Room With A View

Enjoy the beauty of this Pawling home's six acres of beauty, seen from every room. One example: the dining room with hardwood floors and chandelier and natural light coming through the bay window. The house includes four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and two half bathrooms, eat-in kitchen,

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Farm To Tivoli Table

The exterior of this Tivoli Village home may look like a farmhouse, but inside it's all luxury, with carefully preserved details dating back to 1900 and modern touches that mingle perfectly with the old. The dining room displays the old/new feel, with hardwood floors, grand chandelier, and

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Victorian Setting

Take a step back in time while having a meal in this Victorian home's grand dining room, which evokes the refined sensibilities of the era in its crown moldings, pillars, and elegant chandelier. Ceiling medallions, original hardware, light fixtures, high ceilings, and the wedding staircase are just a

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Dining In Style

Built less than 10 years ago, this contemporary Allegrone residence was designed with a dining room, a hallmark of gracious living not always included in new builds. Located in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Great Barrington ("on the hill"), it has six bedrooms and five-and-

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Made in the Berkshires Opening Night

Amy Krzanik reports from Pittsfield. The third-annual Made in the Berkshires Festival kicked off its creativity-packed weekend of events with an opening night party at The Colonial Theatre on Friday, October 11. The evening began with an art show in the lobby and found guests mingling and sipping

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Style

Garden: The How and Why of Fall Foliage

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by Brian Cruey, who as General Manager of Naumkeag for the Trustees of Reservations, knows about beautiful gardens. Somewhere, buried deep in the depths of the memory graveyard known as

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The Mahaiwe Chuckles It Up

Dale Stewart reports from Great Barrington. On Sunday, October 13, guests spread out through downtown Great Barrington from Fiori to Castle Street Café for a champagne reception and pre-show dinner to honor Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center champion Louis J. Allegrone, pictured center left with his daughter Stacy and John

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Bridges To Somewhere: A Celebrity Decorator's Book Signing at FINCH

Dale Stewart reports from Hudson.On Saturday, October 12, Hudson, NY's cup runneth over with art openings, musical performances, and book signings. The standout was the standing-room-only crowd packed into the well-styled corners of FINCH to listen to world-renowned designer Sheila Bridges (pictured left

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The Little Bookstore(s) That Could: Oblong Thrives in a Shifting Marketplace

By Robert Burke Warren “Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated." --Mark Twain Although the bean-counting experts predicted otherwise, Millerton and Rhinebeck, NY’s family-run Oblong Books & Music stores are not only surviving, but thriving. (Illustration of the Millerton branch by Illu Brozyna.) To most, the

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Arts

Books: "Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley" A Vicarious Pleasure

By Dan Shaw The imaginary line that divides Connecticut's Litchfield County from New York's Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam Counties became very real to Jane Garmey as she researched and wrote her beautiful new coffee table book, Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley. "When I began

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