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Midsummer Dream Big Evening at The Norfolk Library

While hawking books that ranged in subject from weeds to wit and wisdom, from mysteries to memoirs, local literary luminaries and bibliophiles showed their support for The Norfolk Library, on Friday August 24th, at the Midsummer Dream Big Evening fall fundraiser. A phalanx of authors, stationed at tables under a
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Style

Garden View: The Fruit Tree Solution

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels Local Knowledge, So Near, and A Place for Us, all set in the Rural Intelligence region. She and her husband divide their time between Manhattan and West Stockbridge, MA where she writes — and putters around in her garden. We’re pleased to
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Arts

Interview with John Kelly, author of The Graves Are Walking, on the Irish Famine

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously remarked, “What’s the point of being Irish if the world doesn’t break your heart?” Central to that tragic view of life was the Irish potato famine of the 1840s that left more than a million people
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Parties

Hollister House Garden Study Weekend Cocktail Gala

Dale Stewart reports from Washington, CT.Professional horticulturists and avid gardeners gathered at the Hollister House Garden Cocktail Gala at the Washington Montessori School on Friday, August 24, for a prelude to the Garden Study Weekend, now in its third year. Co-sponsored by The Garden Conservancy, the cocktail party
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Food

AgriCulture: Mid-August Visit from William and Andrew

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. Hi all, Mark here, in a mood of appreciation for the winding down of summer. What I appreciate is not the moderation in temperature nor the shortening of the days.
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Community

Gardener/Architect Peter Wooster Creates a Collage Comeback

After a stroke in 2006 left him partially paralyzed, with limited vocabulary, Peter Wooster of Roxbury, Connecticut, the renown gardener and architect of homes for such high-profile clients as James Taylor and Stephen Sondheim, continues to pursue creative self-expression through vivid visual imagery. True, Wooster can no longer
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Community

Role Reversal for Terry Teachout: Critic Turns Playwright

"I hadn’t written a play before, but I had this dream where I saw the stage picture of Pops and heard the first line. It just popped into my mind." ‘Pops,' like 'Satchmo,’ is a nickname for legendary jazzman Louis Armstrong, and the newly minted
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Arts

The British Are Ailing — Existentially!

Celia Schaefer, Timothy Deenihan, and Danielle SkraastadTomorrow in the Battle, at Stageworks/Hudson, is an excellent and challenging work about three British professionals: Jennifer, a sexy female financier about to get swallowed up  by the collapse of the banking industry;  Anna, a defense minister about to lie to Parliament about
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Parties

Columbia Land Conservancy's Mid-Summer Soiree

Silka Glanzman reports from Germantown.With panoramic views of the Hudson to the west and the stunning Midwood Estate to the east, delighted locavores and land conservation advocates sat down for the Columbia Land Conservancy’s Mid-Summer Soiree on Sunday, August 19. Hosted by Midwood’s owner, Joan Davidson
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Arts

A Talk with Peter Wheelwright, Architect and Author of As It Is On Earth

Peter Wheelwright, a former dean (now associate professor) in the School of Architecture at Parsons The New School for Design, has just published his first novel, As It Is On Earth. Wheelwright grew up in Lenox, MA., and he and his wife, the photographer Eliza Hicks, have a house in
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Parties

Farmers & Chefs Benefit for North East Community Center

Sarah Todd reports from Millerton.The only thing better than rolling out of bed for a delicious Sunday brunch is doing it for a great cause. On Sunday, August 19, farmers, restaurateurs, and foodies alike turned out to support the North East Community Center (NECC) at the Chef & Farmer
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Food

Recipe: Nasturtium Vodka

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 at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural
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