Style 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, By Editor
Food 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 By Editor
Food 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 By Editor
Parties 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- By Editor
Food 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 By Editor
Parties 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 By Editor
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 By Editor
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, By Editor
Food 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 By Editor
Parties 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 By Editor
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 By Editor
