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Greening Up A Winter Day: Margaret Roach Book Signing

Rachel Louchen reports from Millerton. Gardeners and readers (many of whom were both) gathered at Oblong Books in Millerton on Sunday afternoon, January 20, to hear Margaret Roach speak about her new book, The Backyard Parables, as well as get their copies personalized. For the talk, the author read excerpts

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Food

Spice Girl

Your Spice of Life

By Lisa Green

Style

Stuff: The Deep Dish on Porcelain, Among Other Things

Interior designer Carey Maloney, also known to Rural Intelligence readers as The Wandering Eye, has the enviable gift of making his interests, be they erudite or off-the-wall, compelling and entertaining to others. In his first book, Stuff, recently published by Pointed Leaf Press, and lavishly illustrated, mostly with

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Arts

Collage Convention: Cutting It Up in North Adams

The dead of winter is a time when many shivering denizens of the Rural Intelligence zone —especially the more zealous fans of the toasty comforts of a wood stove — become more familiar with the contents of their wood sheds. Used as a verb, “woodshedding” is a term jazz musicians invoke

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Food

This Ain't Your Grandma's Oatmeal

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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AgriCulture: Hormonal Rush

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. As we continuously tell you, we are in lambing season. It started in earnest at the beginning of December and still hasn't stopped. The two dozen births we&

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Scenic Hudson at the Hudson Opera House

David Franck reports from Hudson, NY.On Saturday, January 19, an artful throng filled the historic hall of The Hudson Opera House for the opening reception of On Time and Place: Celebrating Scenic Hudson's First 50 Years, an exhibition of photographs that uses the Hudson Valley as its

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A Go Girl Sock Hop for Girls Inc. of the Berkshires

Fiona Breslin reports from Pittsfield. Women donned cat eye glasses, men greased back their hair, and the young ladies roller skated proudly around the gym at the Gladys Allen Brigham Community Center on Friday, January, 18, for the Go Girl Sock Hop dance. The Happy Days-themed evening benefited Girls

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Margaret Roach Delivers The Backyard Parables

Sequestered on a hillside in Copake, New York, Margaret Roach — former editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and, before that, longtime staffer on the New York Times and Newsday — tends her land as well as her website, A Way to Garden, which many, from neophyte to expert, proclaim to

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Local Exotica in Hudson

Our Wandering Eye blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his husband, architect Hermes Mallea, are principals in the Manhattan based design firm M (Group). He signed on with Rural Intelligence four years ago to document the restoration of their neighbor’s historic manse, but over time his mind and his

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KMR Arts for Mayflower Inn: New England Soigné

Dale Stewart reports from Washington, CT.Authors, filmmakers, and designers mixed it up with an equally well-heeled art crowd at the Mayflower Inn in Washington, CT, on Friday, January, 4. They were toasting the new year and supporting KMR Arts and its gallerist, Kathy McCarver Root (pictured center, with

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Gilmor Glass: Glassy Eyed in Millerton

What would turn someone from a pre-med student to a career in ceramics, and, eventually, hand-blown glass? “Fire," says Jon Gilmor, owner of Millerton’s Gilmor Glass, with a glint in his eye. "I got to play with fire. It’s [also] working with my hands.

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