Rural Intelligence (Page 633)

Food

Getting Comfy in PUBLIC

Squirreled away doing back-office work for the North Adams restaurant Taylor’s for nearly two years, Jared Decoteau (left) harbored ideas about the changes he’d make to the place if given a chance. First and foremost, there were the eleven tap lines to the bar, tragically underutilized, he

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Community

Community: 20 Questions for Laurie Norton Moffat

Photo: Sue Geller Laurie Norton Moffatt, champion of the artwork and legacy of Norman Rockwell, spearheaded the transition of the Norman Rockwell Museum from a local house museum to an internationally recognized cultural institution dedicated not only to the work of the iconic American illustrator but also to a scholarly

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Food

Earthy Roots: Creamy Potatoes and Celeriac

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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Arts

Alex Ross at NRM: A Comic Book Coming Home

The Norman Rockwell Museum's upcoming exhibition, Heroes and Villains, is going to be pretty super. Opening on Saturday, November 10, it gives more than the usual space to the career of illustrator Alex Ross, best known for his work with DC and Marvel Comics and perhaps the most

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Parties

Behind the Lens: Unseen Arbus at KMR

Dale Stewart reports from Washington Depot, Connecticut.Guests were shoehorned into the intimate two-room KMR Arts Gallery in Washington Depot on Friday, October 26, for a reception to celebrate the opening of Diane Arbus: Guggenheim Grants, 1963-1967. Patrons like authors Ann Leary and Candace Bushnell, pictured left, sipped

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Food

Back in the Swim of Things

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. Arriving back at the farm after being away for nearly a month, I had the distinct impression that I was returning to a somewhat different place from the one I

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Parties

We Did the Mash

Scott Baldinger and Fiona Breslin report from Hudson and Pittsfield.Despite the imminent arrival of Hurricane Sandy, it wasn’t quite the quiet weekend before the storm in the RI region. After all, it was Halloween. And what is the holiday weekend for the over twenty-one crowd if not

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Food

Finally Home, Turkey In Retrospect

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter Davies writes from back in the states. After four weeks of traveling throughout Turkey, it occurred to me, upon returning to our farm in Germantown and attending the Sheep and Wool

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Style

Dynamite Angel: Shoebox Soigné

“I have a rich fantasy life, I dress up to pick up Chinese food,” says Dynamite Angel store-owner and musician Carolyn Wallace, looking around her recently opened, 250-square-foot jewel box of a space in New Preston, Connecticut. As customers came streaming in on a perfect fall day,

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Parties

Applaws for 20 Years of the Berkshire Humane Society

Sarah Todd reports from Lenox.Animal lovers raised their champagne glasses high to toast the 20th anniversary of the Berkshire Humane Society (BHS). On Sunday, October 21, the Cranwell Resort in Lenox was bubbling with enthusiasm for the Berkshire County charity, which has placed over 16,000 homeless pets in

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Style

Art et Industrie: Man, Meet Nature

Owner Jordan Schlanger and co-worker Caitlyn Schomaker on Jesse Reimer's "Mother-Daughter" bench Housatonic is a study in contrasts. In this Berkshire town, brick mill houses and graffitied trains long out of service nestle alongside a gushing river and hills flocked with trees. “It’s

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Food

Prairie Whale, A New Hangout in Great Barrington

Lots of restaurants in the RI region profess to be farm-to-table. And like so many of their well-intentioned customers, they keep the faith whenever they can, which is to say, when it isn’t too ruinously inconvenient, expensive, or arduous. Now Prairie Whale (formerly called Bell &

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