Rural Intelligence (Page 698)

Style

Innocents Abroad: Falling in Love with a Fixer Upper

From the moment they first saw Columbia County, Australians Sacha Dunn and Edmund Levine were hooked. "It was like a fairy tale to us," says Sacha, who, like her husband, works in New York as a stylist and set decorator for magazines, print ads, and television commercials. "

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Parties

Urban Renewal! Williamstown Theatre Festival's NYC Benefit

It wasn't surprising that many of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's hometown trustees made the trek from the Berkshires to New York City for the company's fall benefit at the baroque Prince George Ballroom (left) on November 16. What was surprising—and gratifying—was to

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Parties

Hark! Opening Night of the Berkshire Museum's Festival of Trees

The Berkshire Museum's Festival of Trees is like being in the toy department of some bygone department store (think Marshall Field's or J.L. Hudson) except the only toys are the Alexander Calder push-and-pull toys in one of the adjacent galleries. For the 25th

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Wine & Cheese in the Poesis Workshop

It's becoming a familiar story in our region: A young couple moves to the country and buys a house with a barn so they can work from home. Designer Rob Bristow (photographed with his friend Michelle Childs, left) and his wife, Pilar Proffitt, run a design business called

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Style

The Wandering Eye: It’s Huntin’ Season! Oy...

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Hermes reminds me I’m overdue on a new blog—this during an afternoon walk on Woods Road, wearing multiple cunning bits of “Don’t shoot me!” orange. A vest for

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Community

Christmas Arrives Early at the Berkshire Museum

The 106-year-old Berkshire Museum not only preserves paintings, photographs, antiquities, and other artifacts that depict our region's natural and cultural history; it also safeguards the spirit of traditional New England Christmas. The 25th annual Festival of Trees (through January 3) is an antidote to shopping mall

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Style

Chris Lehrecke: A Design Star Shines on Warren Street

Knowing shoppers watch Warren Street with all the urgency that baseball fans bring to the World Series. Something exciting seems to happen there nearly every day, but no day outshines the recent one when designer Chris Lehrecke opened his eponymous shop. Lehrecke's work, which normally is available only

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Food

Butternut Squash Risotto Two Ways

Is there any vegetable more plentiful at this time of year than butternut squash? Do you ever wonder why it seems every restaurant in our region has butternut squash soup on the menu? I am always thinking of new ways to use squash, and a few nights ago I made

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bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy Opens in Rhinebeck

bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy, a new store on Rhinebeck's Montgomery Row, held a gala opening on Saturday, November 7. The culinarily ambitious, both pros and amateurs, were eager to check out the latest wrinkles in bakeware, cookbooks, electronics, dinnerwear, linens—no matter what ails your kitchen and/or dining

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Live and Let's Give: A Shopping Party for Charley's Fund

Benjamin & Tracy Seckler, who started Charley's Fund to finance medical research to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, have loyal, generous family and friends who were shopping for a good cause on Friday night at the Live and Let's Give Crafts Fair (through November

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The Junior League's Taste of the Berkshires

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: The women of the Junior League take on serious tasks, promoting volunteerism to improve the lives of others. In Berkshire County, the Junior League confronts tough issues such as literacy, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, domestic violence, and alcoholism. But last Thursday, November 5, the organization

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Food

AgriCulture: One Man's Meat

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: As the days grow shorter, and evening chores must be started earlier before darkness settles in, everything begins to take on a different aura at the farm. Not only are the

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