Rural Intelligence (Page 657)

Food

AgriCulture: Sure Signs of Spring on the Farm

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: Luckily, the hours of daylight are getting more abundant, because the season of "not enough hours in the day" has exploded upon us. Along with the crocus, aconite,

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Apple Pie Bakery Café

Food

Apple Pie Bakery Café

"In a class by itself"

By Lisa Green

Style

Kamilla's Brings Flower Power to Millerton

The brightest and most exuberant spot in Millerton's retail scene is undoubtedly Kamilla's floral boutique on Main Street (next door to Terni's.) With its chartreusey walls and pots of blooming plants and refrigerator of flowers, it's cheery and uplifiting even on overcast

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Food

Hancock Shaker Village: All This And Ice Cream Too?

They may have had odd views about how to keep the human race going (essentially: leave that messy task to earthbound wretches), but apart from that, the Shakers were an exemplary lot, and not just because of their famously prescient taste and high standards of craftsmanship. They provided safe haven

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Parties

A Surreal Benefit for IS 183 Art School of the Berkshies

The Berkshires prides itself as having a strong creative economy, and there was double-digit creativity on parade at the IS 183 "Anime Hothouse" benefit on Saturday night in Lenox. It was clear proof once more that beneath the Yankee rectitude the Berkshires is an exciting, slightly eccentic

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Food

AgriCulture: A Japanese Farm & Garden Legacy in Florida

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: Like so many of my graying peers, I have part time parent care duties these days. Fortunately, my father has a girlfriend and two children besides me to take on

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Community

Act III for Ragamont House: Now a B&B and Chic Caterer

Finally, Pete Hathaway has figured out what his landmark mansion on Salisbury's Main Street was destined to be: A party house. When Rural Intelligence checked in with Hathaway a little more than a year ago— A ‘Step-Down’ House in Salisbury That’s A Cut Above—he was

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Food

A Deli in Disguise: The Great Barrington Bagel Co.

Who knew? If the Great Barrington Bagel Co. had hard salamis hanging from the ceiling over the counter, it would be immediately apparent that it's more than a bakery selling sandwiches and flavored cream cheeses. But it wasn't until I saw a sign posted for the

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Parties

Opening of Nari Ward: 'Sub Mirage Lignum' at MASS MoCA

MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, opened two exhibitions last Saturday night. On the second floor of Building 4, Nari Ward made enormous installations for a show titled Sub Mirage Lignum, a hybrid zone made of mostly repurposed materials where the real and the imaginary are intermingled, forcing visitor to

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Style

Style Shopping: The Royal Wedding and We

What, precisely, does the British royal wedding have to do with the likes of thee and me? Thanks to Selina van der Geest, owner of the Bangall (Dutchess County) shop NL-GB, quite a lot, as a matter of fact. This weekend, Red Devon Restaurant in Bangall, together with its

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Parties

Dia:Beacon Sparkles in the Sunlight

DIA:Beacon normally specializes in exhibitions of large-scale pieces that are suited to its expansive, skylit galleries—all 240,000 square feet of them. But there is one current exhibition that bucks that venerable institution's tendency to think big: Koo Jeong A’s Constellation Congress: A Reality

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Style

Splendid Peasant Antiques: A Modern Approach to Folk Art

Kitty and Martin Jacobs understand if you're just as interested in their stunning contemporary house as their museum quality collection of antique folk art. After all, they built this house on a dirt road in Sheffield two years ago not only as their home but as a destination

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