Rural Intelligence (Page 686)

Parties

Stewards of the Hudson Gather on its Bank

It was a party with a beautiful purpose. On Saturday, as the mighty and the almost meek met on the grounds of Joan Davidson's elegantly unpretentious riverfront property for their annual update on efforts to preserve the glories of the Hudson River Valley, speechifying politicians didn't

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Food

AgriCulture: Non-contributing Members of Farm Society

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Perhaps it's advancing age, but sometimes these days I find myself focused on ideas or phrases I learned in the distant past. Most recently, I've been dwelling on

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Community

Bohemian Rhapsody: At Home with Edna St. Vincent Millay

In her day, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was a rock star (although, of course, she predeceased rock-'n'-roll.) Rich, famous and influential, she lived for 25 years in grand, back-to-the-land, high-bohemian style with her husband at Steepletop, their estate in Austerlitz,

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Food

The Amazing Real Live Stars of the Farmers' Market

Locavorism begins with geography, but it's essentially about community: knowing, trusting and liking the people who produce your food. Rory Chase and Peter Destler, the very likable Pine Plains natives who started The Amazing Real Live Food Co. two years ago, work the farmers market circuit—in Kingston,

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Parties

CATA's "Sticks & Stones" Is A Big Hit

Cultural Correspondent Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Lenox:Community Access to the Arts (CATA) provides creative opportunities for people with disabilities to express themselves and engage in crafts, fine art, and performance. This year’s May Day fundraiser, at Shakespeare & Company’s nearly sold-out Founder’s Theatre,

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Food

AgriCulture: May Day! Turkana Farms Goes to Pot

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Our turkey poults, Bourbon Reds, Spanish Blacks and Naragansetts, have arrived from the hatchery and are in the hayloft of the sheep barn under heat lamps until they feather out. What Peter

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Style

Garden Sheds: Luxuriating in Nature

Say, "garden shed," and what leaps to this earthbound mind is a humble structure with plenty of hooks and bins to store the arsenal it takes to bend nature to (wo)man's will. Apparently, that is not at all what Berkshire Botanical Garden trustee Matt Larkin

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Parties

Berkshire Botanical Garden's Fantasy Garden Sheds Show

Trustees and friends of the Berkshire Botanical Garden gathered on Saturday evening to preview the show of garden shed/follies that will amuse visitors there throughout this season. Five designers turned simple Amish sheds (generously donated by The Barn Raiser) into crowd-pleasing flights of fantasy, with nary a trowel

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Parties

Spring for Art Celebrates the Blossoming of Millerton

Eclectic, eccentric and electric are all adjectives one could use to describe Millerton's Spring for Art evening on May 1, when nearly every business in town—from Elyse Harney Real Estate and Gilmor Glass to Little Gates & Company and the Motorworks—exhibited work by local artists, and

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Arts

"The Whipping Man" at Barrington Stage

May 26 - June 13 Since its 2006 world premiere at Luna Stage in Montclair, NJ, The Whipping Man, by young playwright Matthew Lopez, has been widely produced and well received. It's the story of a seriously wounded Jewish Confederate officer who returns from the Civil War to find

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Community

Spring for Art: 50 More Reasons to Visit Millerton

In the past two years, RI has given you a baker's dozen of good reasons to visit Millerton, NY: 1.Harney Tea Bar After shopping for tea in the tasting room, you can have a civilized lunch at the adjacent tea bar. 2.HunterBee Jonathan Bee and Kent

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Arts

Poetry for All!

If you're in Millerton, NY, Salisbury, CT, or Great Barrington, MA, on Thursday, April 29, Andrew Belcher (left) or Athena Fliakos may approach you out of the blue. Their intense passion may lead you to believe they are proselytizing or politicking, but all they're hoping to

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