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A Colonial Thanksgiving with Bidwell House Museum

Fiona Breslin reports from Monterey.Guests walked a quiet, candlelit path towards the Bidwell House Museum, Saturday, November 24, for the New England heritage landmark’s Colonial Holiday Thanksgiving Fundraising Party. The event was held in the enchanting 1750s parlors of former house resident, Reverend Adonijah Bidwell, with evening proceeds
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Community

Bunny Williams Opens Her House for Historic Holiday Tour

Bunny Williams is used to greeting hundreds of people in a single day as they troop through her famous Falls Village garden that she opens for charity events several times every summer. The New York-based interior designer lets visitors poke their noses inside her Adirondack-style pool house as
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Food

AgriCulture: In Grateful Memoriam

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. It is with a great sigh of relief that Mark and I find ourselves the day after Thanksgiving restoring order to the house and farm. The intensely deadline oriented nature
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Arts

Simone Felice's Happy Days

It's been eight months of traversing the globe for musician Simone Felice, all in support of his eponymous, moody folk debut album. Even so, the singer-songwriter-author and Catskills resident says he’ll approach his December 7 performance at Helsinki Hudson, the first of two back in
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Parties

Big Names at Housantic Valley Association Benefit

Dale Stewart reports from Washington, Connecticut.More than one hundred exuberant bidders had their pick of a well-curated mix of local artisanal crafts and high-end auction items at the 22nd annual benefit auction for the Housatonic Valley Association at the Washington Montessori School in Washington, Connecticut, on Sunday,
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Parties

Let There Be Light! Opening of Berkshire Museum's Festival of Trees

Rachel Louchen reports from Pittsfield. The Berkshire Museum’s 28th annual Festival of Trees is, for many, the official kickoff of the holiday season. This year's theme, Myths and Magic, was a sparkling sight to all who entered the museum to see it completely transformed into a winter
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Food

AgriCulture: Talkin' Turkey

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. It is that time of year when major transitions take place at the farm. We have been harvesting vegetables all summer but now it is time for the major fall
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Food

Reaping the Winter Harvest

It used to be that this was a nation of farmers: From our Puritan forebears eking out a life on the unforgiving land to patriotic families planting victory gardens to aid in the war effort. Everywhere you looked, even in the urban nooks and crannies, the land yielded its riches
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Style

Thrifty Chic: New England Girl

“It all started with an end table, then an armoire, and it just blew up. I’m so lucky, I can’t keep my head on straight,” Nicole Goncalves, aka the New England Girl, marvels as she surveys her design studio in an 1800's barn just outside of
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Parties

Avengers Assemble: Alex Ross at Norman Rockwell Museum Opening

Rachel Louchen reports from Stockbridge.The first thing noticed at the Norman Rockwell Museum on Saturday night, November 10, was the line of over 200 people waiting to get in. Once inside, the second impression; a lot of the attendees were superheroes, wearing attire entirely appropriate for the event, the
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Parties

MASS MoCA Gala Enchants at The Loeb Central Park Boathouse

Fiona Breslin reports from New York City.Despite a snowstorm, it was without fail that friends and fans of MASS MoCA trekked to attend the museum's annual New York City benefit on Wednesday, November 7. Hosted at the elegant Loeb Central Park Boathouse, the evening offered New York-
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Food

Thanksgiving, Tart and Sweet

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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