Arts Flore Laurentienne Blends Chamber Sound With a Minimoog at the Clark Composer Mathieu David Gagnon's chamber-electronic project, named for a botanist's writings on the region's wild plants, brings strings and vintage synthesizers to the museum's auditorium. By Jamie Larson •
Community The Cemetery Crawl Returns to Red Hook, One Gravestone Clue at a Time A month-long scavenger hunt through six historic cemeteries kicks off at Hardscrabble Day, with a bluegrass award ceremony closing things out in October By Jamie Larson •
Community 24 Hours to Count Every Species: Berkshire Biodiversity Day Returns to Bartholomew's Cobble BEAT's 17th annual BioBlitz brings scientists and naturalists together with the public for a full day and night of species surveying By Jamie Larson •
Arts This Weekend, Bard Holds Festival for a Composer the Nazis Tried to Erase The Gernsheim Rediscovery Initiative opens with a festival running Friday through Sunday, September 18–20, on Bard's Annandale-on-Hudson campus—the first public move in a multi-year effort to bring a forgotten peer of Brahms back into the classical repertoire. By Jamie Larson •
Community Second Homelands PowWow Brings Over 160 Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans Back to the Berkshires "Tending the Fire," October 3–4 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, marks the largest gathering of Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican people on their ancestral homelands since the tribe's removal westward in the 1780s. By Jamie Larson •
Community Millbrook Researchers Find Segregation is Bad for the Environment Too A new collection of studies led by scientists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies argues that when segregation draws geographic lines over generations, it divides and hurts the natural world in ways that further disenfranchise the community. By Jamie Larson •
Community Olana's End-of-Summer Party A Big Deal for Frederic Church's 200th Birthday Top Hudson Valley chefs, local wineries, and a view of the river that inspired the Hudson River School headline the annual East Lawn benefit — now waitlisted for individual tickets By Jamie Larson •
Style The Gallery Next Door: Elizabeth Moore Transforms a Captain Clapboard into a Living Showcase in Hudson "The best environment for me is a gallery,” Moore explains. “Every apartment I’ve lived in I’ve approached as a space where art, design, and architecture work together. I always renovate my spaces to accommodate my collections. That’s how I live.” By Mary Angeles Armstrong •
Real Estate A 1974 Mid-Century Modern With a 60-Foot Lap Pool, in Stuyvesant Steel beam construction, two-story atriums, mid-mod mosaic tile kitchen, and a screened pool house surrounded by hedges and boxwood—close to Kinderhook. By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate Fawns Leap: A Restored Historic Home With a Reimagined Barn, in Riverton Stripped to the studs and rebuilt with original floors, pocket doors, and fireplace mantels preserved; Taj Mahal quartzite kitchen, Calacatta marble primary bath, and a barn with 12-foot windows salvaged from a Rhode Island yarn mill. By Jamie Larson •
Community Rhinebeck Porchfest Turns Front Yards Into a Village-Wide Stage A free, volunteer-run music festival brings musicians of every genre and age to residents' porches for one Saturday in September By Jamie Larson •
Community On Heels of Call for Hegseth Impeachment, Rep Thomas Massie Joins Organic Ag Leaders in Churchtown The libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican, and the Maine Democrat teamed this spring to strip pesticide-industry legal immunity from the Farm Bill. By Jamie Larson •
