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Food Festival Ramps Up in Hudson

Dale Stewart reports from Hudson.There was a palpable buzz in advance of the second annual Ramp Fest Hudson, and by all accounts (and palates) the event — held on Saturday, May 5 at the Basilica Hudson —  surpassed expectations. Produced by Jeff Gimmel of Swoon Kitchenbar (pictured left, with gallerist Karen
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Frank Langella Screening and Signing

Tara Kelly reports from Millerton.The literati turned out to ogle the glitterati when the stylish antiques store Hunter Bee hosted a book signing for Frank Langella (pictured at left) on Saturday, May 5. Langella has been a busy man. He's criss-crossing the country to promote two
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Food

AgriCulture: The Secret Language of Farms

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: We have discovered that the farm world has a language all its own. Before starting the farm more than 11 years ago we were not much further along in farm
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Gimme Shelter at Berkshire Botanical Garden

Fiona Breslin reports from Stockbridge. The chilly spring evening had everyone bundled up April 28 when the Berkshire Botanical Garden held its 2012 season-opening party, but as all wise gardeners know, the full heat of summer will soon be upon us. In anticipation of that inevitable change in the
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BIFF's Seventh Season Unveiled at Haven Café

Fiona Breslin reports from Lenox. Berkshire International Film Festival founder Kelley Vickery, speaking before a jam-packed crowd at Haven Café on Tuesday, April 24, announced a blockbuster lineup for the BIFF's seventh season, including the opening night documentary Ethel, a feature-length portrait of Ethel Kennedy directed
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Parties

In Hudson: McDaris Opens; Habitat for Humanity Celebrates

Dale Stewart reports from Hudson. Hudson was hopping on Saturday, April 21 as several galleries held opening receptions, including Warren Street's latest venue, Wendy McDaris Fine Art, where the inaugural exhibit featured a solo show of new work by Germantown artist Dawn Breeze (pictured with McDaris, left). Breeze’
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Community

Whose Omi Is it Anyway?

Omi International Arts Center in Ghent has serious ivory-tower cred. Among the most selective artists' retreats in this country, Omi stands out for its reach beyond U.S. borders for applicants. Perhaps that's because its founder, Francis Greenburger, son of Sanford J. Greenburger, the legendary literary
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Food

Ramp, Asparagus, and Ricotta Frittata, and an Apology

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, like
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Community

At Chesterwood, Meadowlark Gets a Hammertown-Style Makeover

When sculptor Daniel Chester French, he of Lincoln Memorial and Minute Man fame, needed to escape the friends, family members, clients, models, assistants, and assorted others who disrupted the serenity of the home, studio, and gardens of his Stockbridge, Massachusetts estate, Chesterwood, he would steal away to his “Little Studio,
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Food

AgriCulture: The Farmer's Role in Feeding the Poor

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: I’m not usually a Wall Street Journal reader, but yesterday on the subway a nearby passenger’s paper caught my eye with an article entitled “From the Field to
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Food

Alana Chernila: The Homemade Pantry from a Homegrown Gal

The best very best trips to the farmers’ markets are expeditions of discovery. There, amidst the familiar greens, beans, and tomatoes, sits a knobby root vegetable that you may have heard of – or even enjoyed in a restaurant – but you have no idea of what to do with it, much
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Style

Privet House Hits a Bullseye with Pop-Up Shops at Target

Do you remember the movie The Miracle on 34th Street when Macy's Santa Claus, who believed he was the real Kris Kringle, advised the department store's customers to shop at Gimbel's for certain items? In the same counterintuitive spirit,  Rural Intelligence is encouraging you
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