Rural Intelligence (Page 645)

Food

AgriCulture: Small is Beautiful at Turkana Farms

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. It has turned into a tough summer for growing, although by contrast to regions further south and west, which have been beset by searing heat and devastating drought, we would

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Arts

Dance: Moving Still, An Interview With Paul Taylor

Photos of dances by Paul B. Goodeby Scott Baldinger“I like to move.” This was the only thing the now-legendary dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor could think of saying, during an audition for a place at the Juilliard School more than 60 years ago, upon having been asked why

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Food

A Salad That's Like Summer in a Bowl, and Mark Your Calendar

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

A Pleasant Valley Evening for Crickets, Critters, and Cocktails

Samara DiMouro reports from Lenox.Mother Nature served up a perfect evening of sunny, then starry, skies on Saturday, July 21, for the annual Crickets, Critters, and Cocktails benefit for Mass Audubon Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary. Nature-loving guests enjoyed each other's company along with food and wine,

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Arts

Reviews: The Importance of Earnestness on Stage at WTF and Powerhouse Theater

Jennifer Westfeldt and Dominic Fumasa watching Greg Kinnear. The Power of Duff The first thing that came to mind after having read advance word about The Power of Duff, a new play by Stephen Belber (at Vassar's Powerhouse Theatre) about a local news anchor who “has a spiritual

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Arts

The Hong Kong Ballet: Strength in Numbers

Classical dance lovers had something to cheer about this week, as The Hong Kong Ballet made its Jacob’s Pillow debut. At the same time, so did fans of contemporary dance; the company’s artistic director since 2009, Madeleine Onne, formerly headed the Royal Swedish Ballet, and founded Stockholm 59°

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Arts

Performing At Cranwell Resort, The Capitol Steps Take the Money and Run Amok

It seems that every political headline (and these days, in particular, there are plenty of those) has the potential to make you laugh or cry. The Capitol Steps, now performing for the sixth-consecutive year at Cranwell Resort in Lenox, has the ability to make you do both, i.e.

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Parties

The Mount Prepares for Edith Wharton’s 150th Birthday

Bess Hochstein reports from Lenox. If Edith Wharton were still alive, she’d be celebrating her 150th birthday this year. And she’d have found fine companionship on the terrace of The Mount, her Lenox estate, on the hazy evening of Sunday, July 15, where bibliophiles and others gathered to

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Community

COVET: ArtBerkshires Offers Insiders' View of the Art Scene

The Berkshire region enjoys a long-established reputation as a summertime cultural destination for the performing arts; just mention “the Berkshires” and the words Tanglewood, Jacob’s Pillow, and Williamstown Theatre Festival spring from the culturati’s lips. Less broadly recognized is the region’s abundance of similarly world-class

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Style

Radish Seed Pods: A Spicy Secret

I readily admit that I’m not the gardener of the family; what little gardening I do is under direction from my beloved Kipp, who plans the vegetable garden, does the heavy lifting, maintains the compost piles, and tells me what to plant where, and when to harvest what. The

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Arts

Berkshires as Backdrop: Why Joshua Henkin Set "The World Without You" in Lenox

Whether or not you think of the Berkshires as New York City's sixth borough as some wags do, you have no doubt sat next to a family like the fictional Frankels on the lawn at Tanglewood or stood on line with them at Guido's. In Joshua

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Parties

A Historic Affair: Tanglewood's 75th Anniversary

Fiona Breslin reports from Lenox. Turning 75 is monumental enough, but Tanglewood’s anniversary concert and gala on Saturday, July 14, was a historic event in and of itself. The evening featured performances by legendary musicians and conductors, including James Taylor, pianists Peter Serkin and Emanuel Ax, violinist Anne-Sophie

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