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Stealing Beauty: The Olana Viewshed Tour

You don't have to be erudite or sophisticated to be moved by a beautiful vista. It's one form of beauty that everyone agrees upon. Yet the notion of protecting a view that's comprised largely of private property, is new. On Saturday, October 24, The

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Carrie Haddad Packs the House

Most residents of Hudson, NY, are architecture buffs, which is why they migrate to this historic city and devote so much time to renovating and decorating their houses. And that's probably why Carrie Haddad Photographs, the gallery at 318 Warren Street, was jammed for the opening of Architectural

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The Pastures: A Spa for Wellness Down on the Farm

A "spa day" does not mean what it once did for Bridget Ford Hughes. A massage therapist who worked at Canyon Ranch for many years and travelled the globe as part of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger's entourage (which is how she ended up massaging Mick Jagger

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Baby Bok Choy Stir Fry

Mark Twain said cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education, but he might have been talking about bok choy, which I think of as cabbage that went to college in Asia. Baby Bok Choy, a variety of Chinese cabbage, offers eaters both silky mild greens with a subtle

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A Showcase: The Greening of the Hudson Valley & New England

This weekend, Herrington's, the local hardware chain, is hosting, Lean Toward Green, a showcase of environmentally responsible, home building products and systems that promise to make our houses more energy efficient and comfortable. There will be special seminars on window replacement and insulation, where the tax incentives for

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An Alternative Harvest Festival in Millerton

The miracle of Millerton's gentrification is that it happened without art galleries, which are frequently crucial to a small town's revival. (The Hanback Gallery, formerly of Lenox, opened on South Center Street only this August.) Nevertheless, Millerton is crawling with artists and collectors so instead of

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Hunt Slonem Sale Preview at Stair Galleries

On Saturday, October 17, antiquarians from near and far descended on Stair Galleries in Hudson (that's Colin Stair, far left, with veteran Hudson antiques dealer Rich Rasso) for a preview of the season's most eagerly-awaited sale, the Hunt Slonem Collection from Edgewood Terrace. Slonem, a

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Historic Hudson's Post-Tour Party

All day Saturday, David Hart, President of the Greenport Historical Society, stood outside, seemingly oblivious to the damp and cold, greeting visitors to the 1799 Toll House that he and his group are hoping to restore. Anyone who drives on 23B has passed it—a mysterious, boarded-up, old stone

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AgriCulture: The Changing Face of Farming

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: “Funny, they don’t look like farmers,” said one of the painters working on the barn across the street, clearly loud enough for me to hear, when we first moved in.

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ArtsWalk Opening: Outsider Art at Basilica Industria

The Dr. Pepper and Pabst Blue Ribbon flowed on Friday, October 9, as ArtsWalk in Hudson got off to a festive start with the gala opening of a one-man show of works from private collections by the outsider artist Earl Swanigan at Basilica Industria . At least 300 people crammed

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Shopping Plus: Knitter's Nirvana this Weekend in Rhinebeck

Of course, there will be yarn, thousands of skeins of it, and not just wool either. There will be cashmere, alpaca and other exotic specialty fibers. There will also be products made from yarn—sweaters, socks—as well as bags of fleece for those who prefer to do their own

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The Other Turkey: Not the Bird, the Country

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: We are back from Turkey. Well traveled and all-too-well fed, and pleased that the farm came through with only a few small disasters, and in very good order. We

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