Rural Intelligence (Page 678)

Community

Feed Thy Neighbor: Sunday in the Country Food Drive

It's a few days before Thanksgiving, and Dave MacMillan of Millerton is already thinking about Christmas. "We'd like to be able to distribute Christmas turkeys and food baskets to every family who wants one," says MacMillan, whose not for profit group, Sunday in the

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Shopping: Pookstyle Peps Up Park Row

Museum shops appeal to the sort of people who believe that, as Mies van der Rohe so famously said, "God is in the details"—that a beautifully designed, say, pot-scrubbing brush can so enhance daily life that it's worth every penny, even if it costs

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Parties

Holiday Shopping Party at IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires

An ordinary holiday crafts fair can be full of things you don't actually want to buy, but that wasn't the case at IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires' Color A World Scholarship Sale, which featured ceramics, leather goods, fine art, photography, jewelry and textiles

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Food

Food Shopping: Pies That Hit a High Note

By Kathryn Matthews How did Debra Every, a former opera singer and bond trader, sneak back onto center stage—and into the limelight? By baking pies. Lots of them. And winning fans. Lots of them. At Me-Oh-My Pie Shop & Café in the village of Red Hook on

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Arts

99¢ & Up: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction at MCLA Gallery 51

Now - January 2, 2011 'Tis the season to make affordable artwork available to shoppers seeking artful alternatives to the mall or internet experience. This group show of art multiples is easy on the wallet, with price tags beginning at 99¢ and topping out at $99.99. The show is

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Food

AgriCulture: Turkey vs turkey

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: I don’t know how my life has come to oscillate between “Turkey” and “turkey” (one capitalized, the other not) but lately somehow it has. All summer, with my travel

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Community

Art for Animals: More Than A Rock and Roll Benefit

Cultural correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports: Lovers of animals, food, art, and music converge in Hudson this Friday as Club Helsinki hosts Rock ‘n Roll Rescue, a star-studded benefit for Art for Animals, an organization dedicated to helping animal rescue groups and educating young people about humane issues

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Food

AgriCulture: Buttoning Up But Not Shutting Down for Winter

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: We're feeling the restorative effects of a balmy late fall weekend. After a nasty beginning of last week, with hail and high winds that had our newly shorn

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Parties

Williamstown Theatre Festival Welcomes Back Jenny Gersten

Dozens of Berkshires residents travelled to Manhattan on Monday night for the sold-out Williamstown Theatre Festival "Sing" Benefit in NYC. It was the first official party for new artistic director Jenny Gersten (left), who was WTF's associate producer from 1996 - 2004. Wearing a dress with

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Style

The Dominick Dunne Estate Auction at Stair Galleries

Dominick Dunne the author of best-selling novels such as People Like Us and The Two Mrs. Grenvilles who became a household name as a television commentator during the O.J. Simpson trial— always liked being around famous people. He liked being famous himself, so he'd no doubt

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Food

Holiday Farmers Markets for Thanksgiving Cooks

Last year, Berkshire Grown, the organization that facilitates the farm-to-table movement held its first pre-Thanksgiving farmers' markets simulateneously in Great Barrington and Williamstown. They proved to be unqualified successes—merry happenings where you could purchase local ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner and catch up with friends at

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Food

Just in Time for the Turkey: Hudson-Chatham's Baco Noir

By Christopher Matthews Mention “Baco Noir”, and what comes to mind? A men’s cologne? Dark chocolate from Madagascar? Or an award-winning wine grape in the Hudson Valley (HV)? The answer is the latter, a French-American hybrid grape that grows well here in the Valley. In fact, back

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