Rural Intelligence (Page 656)

Parties

Carrie Haddad Celebrates Her 20th

A huge crowd, spilling onto the street, gathered on Saturday, April 23, to help Carrie Haddad celebrate the 20th anniversay of the Carrie Haddad Gallery. Twenty years ago when Haddad (left, with her Warren Street neighbor Mark Wasserbach of Mark's Antiques) held her first art exhibition in Hudson,

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Food

Hudson's First Annual Ramp Festival

The ramp, that incorrigible first forage-able of the season, will be celebrated in all its odiferous glory on Saturday, April 30 at Hudson's First Annual Ramp Fest. “The ramp is a harbinger of spring," says the event's organizer, Jeff Gimmel, of Swoon Kitchenbar in

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Arts

A Happening Reading Relaunches the Basilica

A reading of renowned novelist and screenwriter, Rudolph Wurlitzer’s 1984 novel Slow Fade by singer-songwriter, folk-music legend Will Oldham (below), who has played with the band Palace Brothers as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. The evening celebrates the release of Slow Fade, the first in a new line of

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Food

A Royal Opportunity for Harney Tea

The Harney family is living proof that you can create and grow a global business from our neck of the woods. The Salisbury-based clan who run their tea empire from headquarters in Millerton have developed some royal connections, blending special teas for Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that

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Community

Whimsical, Winsome Winvian Now Cooks

By Kathryn Matthews “Ninety-five percent of our guests never leave the property—until they head home,” says Maggie Smith (below), owner of Winvian, a private resort tucked amid the rolling Litchfield Hills in northwest Connecticut. Famously discreet, Winvian reflects the spirit of its former owners—Winthrop Smith, a founding

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Food

AgriCulture: The Birth of a White Calf - Holy Cow!

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: On Tuesday morning while making the morning chore rounds with our farm helper, Darlene, I commented to her as we stepped into the sheep barn on the constant mooing of

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Parties

Litchfield Jazz Festival Scholarship Party

The Litchfield Jazz Festival is more than an August weekend of great music on the campus of the bucolic Kent School. It is also the culmination of a four-week camp that offers intensive music education for some 550 students. The camp is a unique opportunity for students interested in

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Style

Style Shopping: Mirror, Mirror

On Saturday, April 23, 441 Gallery, the upstairs exhibition space at TK Home and Garden in Hudson, will host the opening of an exhibition of twenty-eight mostly convex mirrors designed by Cristobal Morales, who lives in Spencertown. Beautifully crafted and elegant, it takes more than a moment to recognize

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Style

Picture This: Cuba Circa 1890 - 1960

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Hermes’ mother - ready for Carnival. Muy Poiret So this was fun…. Last week we went to Cuba to “put on a show!” Very Little Rascals. Animal prints, plaids, and that great

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Style

Annie Kelly's "Litchfield Style"

Anyone who has ever driven through Litchfield County and been mesmerized by its magnificent 18th- and 19th-century houses (which is to say, anyone who can see), can now satisfy the longing to snoop around inside some of the best of them. Litchfield Style, by the decorator Annie Kelly with

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Community

Broadway is Bittersweet for Litchfield's Larry Kramer

If you think Larry Kramer's seminal 1985 AIDS play, The Normal Heart (which will open on Broadway on April 27), is strictly a period piece, think again. Yes, it is set 30 years ago, when a mysterious disease is killing gay men, and the panic tearing through the

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Style

At Home with Interior Designer Matthew Patrick Smyth

Like the rooms he designs for his city and country clients, Matthew Patrick Smyth is easy-going, tailored and unpretentious. The interior designer, who divides his time between homes in Manhattan, Paris, and Sharon, CT, has built an enviable career by combining his good taste and sense of appropriateness with

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