Rural Intelligence (Page 599)

Parties

Alchemy Initiative Works Its Magic at The Empty Stein Fundraiser

Amy Krzanik reports from Richmond.The Inn at Richmond served as the most beautiful backdrop a gala could ask for, as Alchemy Initiative held its Empty Stein Fundraiser there on Monday, July 22. As guests arrived, they picked their stein of choice from a table of finely crafted ceramic mugs,

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Arts

A Broadway Star Glistens at the Litchfield Jazz Festival

By Sarah Ellen Rindsberg It’s summertime and the living is easy. The opportunity to hear top quality jazz is also easy, thanks to the presence of the Litchfield Jazz Festival. From August 9 - 11, notes of bebop, flamenco, gospel, and a slew of other styles will fill the air

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Real Estate

Your Daily Ride

Take your riding from hobby to professional levels with a home accompanied by a ten-stall barn equipped with a shower, large feed storage, tack room, and riding ring with a viewing room. The house, on 31 acres in Clermont, has a chef's kitchen which opens to a

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Real Estate

Miles To Go

This Richmond home has 35 acres for long day rides on your horse, with acres to spare for hiking, camping, and picnics. The contemporary farmhouse has four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms, a great room with vaulted ceilings, and an open kitchen with dining and sitting room. It

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Real Estate

Green Acres

This home has everything a nature lover could want — pastures, private trails, and a horse barn — while the indoors has all the modern comforts and amenities to suit a homeowner who would never put on a pair of hiking boots. Sited on 35 acres in Monterey with protected views of

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Style

Garden: Grateful Deadheading

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey offers tips on how to keep your flowering

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Parties

A Touch of Lewis Carroll At Berkshire Botanical's Fete des Fleurs

Dale Stewart reports from Canaan, NY. The dark clouds that were threatening to unleash thunderstorms and rain parted just in time for the Berkshire Botanical Garden party: Fete des Fleurs on Saturday, July 20, in the gardens of Madeline and Ian Hooper at Rockland Farm. More than two hundred revelers

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Parties

How Time Flies: Fisher Performing Arts Center's Tenth Anniversary Gala

Scott Baldinger reports from Annandale-On-Hudson. On the evening of Saturday, July 20, both literal and figurative giants, along with their supporters and admirers, celebrated the tenth anniversary of Bard’s so-wonderful-looking-you-could-cry Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by architect Frank Gehry, pictured

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Parties

Love All Creatures: Dancing for the Strays

Amy Krzanik reports from Hancock. This year’s Dancing for the Strays fundraiser for the Berkshire Humane Society and its Purradise Cat Adoption Center was held at the bucolic Hancock Shaker Village on Saturday, July 20. Cocktails on the grounds led to dinner by Savory Harvest Catering outside under the

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Arts

Risky Russians: Stravinsky & Company at Bard

By Robert Burke Warren “We try to inform listening without guiding it," says Bard president and resident Renaissance man Leon Botstein. Botstein’s Bard Music Festival, inaugurated in 1990, offers top-notch performances of a selected composer’s works — many conducted by Botstein — while also enticing audiences with lectures

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Parties

The Good Earth: A Feast From Farm On!

Dale Stewart reports from Copake, NY. Locavore devotees braved the relentless heat on Friday, July 19, for the Farm On! Hootenanny! Love Your Farmer Benefit Dinner; a fundraiser for students to continue studies in agricultural science, hosted on the grounds of the Copake Country Club. The third annual Friends of

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Arts

Olympia Dukakis Still Has the "Courage" in Her

Play photos by Enrico SpadaBy Jeremy D. Goodwin When tackling the works of its namesake playwright, Shakespeare & Company puts the text of a play at the forefront but otherwise makes no obeisance to inherited notions about how a given play is "supposed" to be staged. So as

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