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Style

Style Shopping: Material Man Peter Fasano

No one can accuse Peter Fasano of failing to see the forest for the trees. He sees both the big picture and all the details—the forest, the trees, the branches, the bark, the leaves, the veins within the leaf, and, just as important, the empty spaces in between that

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Community

A Currier & Ives Sunday in Stockbridge

Long before snow tires and four-wheel drive, the residents of our region travelled by horse-drawn sleighs during the winter. The Colonial Carriage & Driving Society will recreate those bygone days on Sunday, January 16, at The Winter Classic Sleigh Rally at Orleton Farms in Stockbridge. (The event was

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Arts

Henry Klimowicz at Berkshire Museum

Opening January 15 - 5 - 7 p.m. When you walk into the soaring Art Deco Crane Room at the Berkshire Museum, you'll do a double take because the new exhibition, Henry Klimowicz: Constructs, looks like it belongs at MASS MoCA. The centerpiece of the exhibit is Disc II:

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Style

An Outstanding Outlet: Pine Cone Hill's New Pittsfield Store

On January 12, Pine Cone Hill opened an honest-to-goodness warehouse outlet at its world headquarters in Pittsfield. For several years, the 17-year-old company founded by Stockbridge native Annie Selke has had a store on the Lenox Road, where it sold its distinctive, beautifully-made and often

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Food

Bridges to Spring: Winter Farmers' Markets, a Blossoming Trend

In the wake of recent and ongoing snow storms, memories of leafy green local produce and last fall's bountiful harvest have all but faded for many of us. But we don’t necessarily have to resign ourselves to shrink-wrapped meat and produce shipped from halfway around the

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Style

How We Live: A Cool Cottage Heats Up the Chatham Countryside

"I left New York City kicking and screaming," says the photographer Laura Resen (left). "Now there's no way I would go back. I don't want what it is; I miss what it was." The story of how a sophisticated, Manhattan born-and-

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Style

Gilded Moon Framing Rises Anew in Millerton

Jill and Paul Choma are betting again on the future of Millerton. Six years ago, the couple who'd been running a framing business out of their home in East Fishkill in southern Dutchess County, decided to open a custom framing shop in Millerton. "It was a leap

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Community

The Best of Media Matters 2010, Part II

It's not only The New York Times that is fascinated by what's happening in our territory. Many magazines, blogs and newspapers reported on our region,too. Here's some of the greatest hits, compiled by Dan Shaw, from the "Media Matters" column on

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Community

RI's Second Annual Holiday Poem

Deck the Halls and Share the Bounty Greetings friends in Litchfield County. Hark to folks who hail from Dutchess, And Columbians, as much as, Those from Berkshire, self-possessed, We share a land, for which we're blessed. Not just in this festive season, But year ‘round, and with

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Parties

The 15 Most Memorable Parties of 2010

We go to a lot of parties, and what we remember most about any particular event is the sense of occasion—the feeling that you've had a one-night-only experience. Sometimes, it's the location (Astor Courts, the Salisbury School boathouse or the old Great Barrington

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Food

Self Sufficiency: Amputate Or Cut It Off An Inch At a Time?

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: A few days after writing my Thanksgiving bulletin about our ongoing attempts at self sufficiency, I happened upon what was to me a shocking article entitled “Turkish Villagers Become Strangers

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Community

Community: Spreading the Love

We hear it every day, "I love Rural Intelligence." And though we never tire of it, lately we find ourselves wondering, how can we turn all that good will into something more concrete, something that benefits both Rural Intelligence and the not-for-profits that play such a

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