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Food

AgriCulture: Hay Fever

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. In winter it sometimes seems to us that our main function is simply to serve as movers of a mountain of hay. Farmers who raise grazing animals often describe themselves

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Helsinki Hudson

Food before music in a handsome space

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Parties

Hitting Home: Benefit Rock Concert for Columbia County Habitat for Humanity

Scott Baldinger reports from Hudson. Passive-solar housing for people of modest means is a very worthy cause for a number of reasons, both environmental and social. But it’s hard to imagine it generating as much heat as it did Sunday, January 27, at Columbia County Habitat for Humanity’

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Dawn Hill Also Rises

Sitting atop a rise across from the Falls of New Preston, Dawn Hill Antiques mirrors an airy, light-filled Swedish country manor. “On a trip to Paris years ago I saw a Swedish clock with its wonderful pale grey paint and carvings, and I just fell in love with it,

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The Berkshire Wine Hunt

The wine-buying landscape in Berkshire, Columbia, Dutchess, and Litchfield counties is growing and evolving, with an ever- increasing number of well-edited wine stores with passionate proprietors making the search for that perfect bottle both an adventure and a pleasure. For this, the first of a series on the

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My Own True Love

Our love affair began years ago. It was never one of those civilized, time-consuming "Harry Meets Sally" things, with platonic friendship origins, the inevitable glance, date, and eventually, relationship. No, ours has been a white-hot smolder that has yet to simmer down. To this day, from

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People and "Stuff": Carey Maloney Book Signing

Scott Baldinger reports from Hudson. “Tout Warren Street is here,” said the lovely couple at the book signing for interior designer Carey Maloney’s Stuff, held Saturday, January 26, at Stair Galleries. The auction house was all set up for an appropriately eclectic sale of Deco, Art Nouveau and mid-

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AgriCulture: Mommie, Dearest

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. As you heard from Mark last week, we are all abuzz here about animal behavior. and seem to be on the qui vive, as The New York Times recently featured

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At the Mount, A Literary Birthday with Cake and Quizzes

Sarah Todd reports from Lenox, MA. After last year's blowout bash celebrating Edith Wharton's 150th birthday, the Mount took a low-key yet festive approach to honoring literature's grand dame on Saturday, January 26. Free admission gave guests from Connecticut, New York, and the

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Food

Kickin' Ginger Cookies

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new 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

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Community

A Bangin' Berkshire Boîte

Club founder Heather Fisch (left) with Amy Wong and Mael Raoult. Photo courtesy DCSC. While Sheffield’s the Down County Social Club has been generating buzz for a couple of years now, it’s still very much (and very literally) underground. Located in the basement of the historic Stagecoach Tavern,

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In Sheffield, Big Elm Brewing Branches Out

Christine and Bill Heaton For hundreds of years, Sheffield’s festivals and town meetings were held at an elm tree so large that 300 people could fit beneath its boughs. Now there’s a new gathering spot where the tree once thrived. Big Elm Brewing, which opened in October on

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