Rural Intelligence (Page 607)

Real Estate

Private Mid Century

Marcel Breuer-like in its simplicity and materials, and private then and now, this Litchfield house, set on 15.5 wooded acres, features all of the elements of a designer domicile from the 50s/60s, including a large great room with vaulted ceiling and a brick fireplace with plenty of

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Arts

Todd Snider: Not So Little Rascal

Onstage and in conversation, acclaimed singer-songwriter-raconteur Todd Snider talks freely about potentially depressing subject matter like past incarcerations, poverty, and his ongoing struggles with addiction. Nevertheless, audiences tend to walk away from his shows feeling better than when they arrived. Because Snider, who hits the Helsinki Hudson stage

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Food

A Little Magic: Maple Custard

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to help

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Food

AgriCulture: Holy Cow!

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. The momentous news on the farm this week is that Roxie the cow gave birth to a sweet, petite heifer calf on Friday morning. Nearly a week earlier I had

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Real Estate

Scenic and Spacious

Fireplaces and woodstoves abound in this Sharon home. With five bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths, it features a large living room with stone fireplace, cathedral ceiling, and expansive windows. There's a second fireplace in the library and a woodstove in the master bedroom, which has sliding

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Food

Seders and Beyond: Klara's Cookies

Each year at Passover, seder tables around the world ask, “Why is this night different from all other nights?" This week, New Englanders lucky enough to have Klara Sotonova’s handcrafted macaroons on hand will be asking themselves another question: Why are Klara’s Gourmet Cookies different from all

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Real Estate

Zen House

You'll get your ohm on in the appropriately named "Zen House," an Asian-inspired home in Germantown, designed by architect Barry Price. Glass walls running the length of the house showcase views of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains and the cantilevered deck seems to

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Real Estate

Ice Glen

A creatively corrugated metal roof, painted a not-so-shocking pink, makes a cheerful Po-Mo first impression, and is just one element that sets this contemporary three bedroom, two-and-a-half bath home apart. Walking distance to downtown Stockbridge, with distant mountain views, it sits on two-plus

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Real Estate

Sun-Drenched in the Mountains

Stripped down to pure geometry (and warmly colored siding), this four-bedroom home located in the mountains of Great Barrington looks and feels bigger than its 3,500 square feet. Close to Ski Butternut and downtown, its hardwood floors throughout and open floor plan (not to mention loads of windows)

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Community

Making A Day of Hyde Park

Springwood, the Dutchess County estate commonly (though erroneously) called Hyde Park, is to the pantheon of great American houses what Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its scion, is to the pantheon of great American men— perhaps not the most brilliant, but so preternaturally confident, relaxed, good-humored, and patrician that any shortcomings

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Parties

Berkshire Grown's March Maple Dinner Taps Into Syrup Season

Sarah Todd reports from Lenox.It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single person in possession of warm maple syrup must be in want of some pancakes. But on Monday, March 18, the six celebrated chefs behind Berkshire Grown's March Maple Dinner proved that the earthy, amber

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Style

Let's Get Lost (In Hudson)

There was a time when shopping vintage (or vintage-ish) was a serendipitous adventure in which the sky seemed to be the limit, whether at a flea market or some delightful hodgepodge of a store. (Ah the 90s.) The town of Hudson, despite blossoming as an upscale decorative-arts destination,

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