Rural Intelligence (Page 696)

Parties

A Night of Art to Be Reckoned With in North Adams & Pittsfield

MASS MoCA is the North Pole of the Rural Intelligence region, and you never know what the elves in North Adams will produce next. On Saturday December 12, in the football-field sized gallery known as Building 5, the museum unveiled an installation called Gravity Is A Force To Be

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Parties

The Wandering Eye: Clermont Christmas

The Wandering Eye, aka Carey Maloney, wandered into our Parties section from his usual perch in Style, to report on the goings on this season at Clermont, the Livingston property that is now a New York State historic site. Beginning in 1728 (281 years and seven generations ago…), there have

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Food

AgriCulture: Food Production and Health Care

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: Just when I think I have things somewhat figured out, along comes someone with a whole new angle to set me to rethinking. Several weeks back, I speculated that perhaps the family

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Food

Red Lion Inn

dinner at the Red Lion makes you feel like you've been on a journey to the heart of America

By Lisa Green

Parties

Hollywood on the Housatonic

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: When it comes to luring film productions to the area, the Berkshire Film and Media Commission (BFMC) takes its cue from real estate agents in citing the three most important factors: location, location, location. That was the message delivered to the

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Food

AgriCulture: The Long and Winding Road to Turkana Farms

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: More and more often, of late, we are approached by interested parties who want to know why and how we got into farming. Some of them seem more than interested; in fact,

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Food

Food Shopping: Delicious Holiday Gifts

One size fits all. But that's just one of many good reasons to give edibles as gifts. Food gets shared, which is always festive. And the fact that it is ephemeral is a nothing but a plus—who among us has room for another tchotchke? Besides, a gift

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Parties

The Berkshire Creative Community Sparkles Together

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: Hundreds of members of the Berkshire "creative class" converged on the Seven Hills Inn on Thursday, December 3, for the second annual SPARKLE, the holiday edition of Berkshire Creative‘s signature SPARK networking event. As befits the season, deal-

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Style

The Wandering Eye's Guide to Indoor Plants

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). I love house plants. I am no gardener.. Perhaps because my mother is a brilliant gardener and a landscape architect, I wanted nada to do with digging in the ground, and

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Parties

MASS MoCA Takes Manhattan

One of the amazing things about MASS MoCA is that a cutting-edge museum with an international reputation thrives in rural, northern Berkshire County. As community-oriented as MASS MoCA is, it can not depend on locals to sustain it financially, which is why the museum holds an annual fundraiser

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Style

Deck the Halls at the Berkshire Botanical Garden Holiday Fair

The Berkshire Botanical Garden has a dedicated group of volunteers who act like elves in Santa's workshop all year long, making handmade things for the Stockbridge center of horticulture. Last summer, they worked with artist Matthew Larkin of Black Barn Farm to create spectacular wire-and-crystal chandeliers

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Arts

Seth Rogovoy Sees Dylan's Jewish Spirit Blowin' in the Wind

It's not hyperbole to say that Seth Rogovoy considers listening to—and performing—the music of Bob Dylan a spiritual experience. Rogovoy, the editor in chief of Berkshire Living who was the rock critic for the Berkshire Eagle for nearly two decades, has been a die-hard Dylan

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