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Recipe: Chile Rellenos with Brebis Blanche and Tomatillo Salsa

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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Parties

Garden Party Benefit for AIDS Council of Northeastern NY

Scott Baldinger reports from Hudson. The garden party benefit for the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York was held September 2, on the lush grounds of the 1785 Henry Van Renseelaer House, home of Dr. Norman Posner and Graham Farrell (in photo, left). Its Georgian architecture and surrounding sprawling grounds
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Food

AgriCulture: What Makes a Farm Sustainable? You Do.

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. “Sustainability,” a word that often comes up in regard to the new directions in farming,  has come to mind a few times recently. In particular I have wondered how sustainable
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Community

At Bard, Gideon Lester Launches a Creative Laboratory

Amanda Palmer (far right) on set at the Fisher Center “What can you do without getting super-tired super-quickly?” director Michael McQuilken asks a bare-chested actor. They’re on set at Bard College’s Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts to shoot Amanda Palmer’s new
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Food

Trader Moe's: Destination Shopping for Beer Connoisseurs

Got beer? For entrepreneur Josh Cohen, the answer is a definitive, resounding YES! For nearly five years he’s been introducing his customers to the joys of craft ale at his bar, Moe’s Tavern, on a back street in the center of Lee, Massachusetts. Now he’s opened a
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Parties

Book Signing and Reception for Peter Wooster at Pergola Home

About 200 people came through the doors of Pergola Home in New Preston, CT on Sunday afternoon, August 26, to attend a reception for and signing of acclaimed gardener, designer, and architect Peter Wooster's new, limited edition art book, Collage. Wooster (in photo, left, with screenwriter and Huffington
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Arts

Theater Review: John Douglas Thompson Soars in Satchmo at the Waldorf

Shakespeare & Company’s final new production of the summer season is Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout'sSatchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play set in 1971 in the dressing room of the jazz great Louis Armstrong, after what would turn out to be his last
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Food

Recipe: End-of-Summer Vegetable Tart

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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Community

Creative Workspaces Open to the Public in Art Studio Views

Clockwise from top left: Randy Bloom with one of her paintings; works by Jeff Romano, Carl Greico, and Richard Chianelle It's hard enough to be an artist. But to be an artist working alone in a studio in a quiet rural area, however noted for its sophistication and
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Parties

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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