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Shopping: Everyone You Need to See in One Convenient Place

The Fine Home Source Show this Saturday in Millbrook is perfectly timed.  Now that the rainy season is finally behind us, a refresher course in domestic amenity is in order, so we and our poor water-logged houses are prepared for the next challenge.  In a fraction of the time
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Community

The Sun Never Sets On The Silent Auction

Even as the days grow shorter and summer segues into fall,  Silent Auction Season continues. Actually, it's always Silent Auction Season in the Rural Intelligence region. When was the last time you attended a benefit for a library, theater company, day care center or museum and weren'
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Style

The Wandering Eye: Doris Leslie Blau Lands in Hudson

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Hermes is getting worried.  My favorite NYC resources keep establishing outposts in Hudson, so I’m able to do ‘city shopping’ in the country. I have even more excuses for my
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Parties

Berkshire Creatives Let the Sparks Fly

Berkshire Creative, the NGO founded  to stimulate new job growth and economic opportunity in the region by sparking innovative collaborations between artists, designers, cultural institutions and businesses, held one of its SPARK! networking parties at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on Tuesday, September 15. The Colonial's executive director,
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Community

Excursion: Columbia County Farm Festival in Valatie

Free tractors rides, pick-your-own apples (Honey Crisps!), live bluegrass (Cathy Grier and the Gentlemen of the Night followed by the Wickers Creek Band), Kinderhook Farm burgers made from hormone-free, grass-fed, cosseted-and-coddled cattle (all that bovine happiness results in lots of healthy Omega 3'
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Style

A New Gilded Age Cottage With A Happy Disposition

It seems like it would be impossible to wake up in a bad mood in this house in Lenox, MA. When the publicity-shy owners called the New York design team of William Diamond and Anthony Baratta to see the house they were building in the Berkshires, Diamond demanded that
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Food

9/11/09: Not Just Another Friday at the Farm

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: Those of you who have spent any social time with us undoubtedly know how large the date of September 11 looms in our life story. We've undoubtedly told you
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Food

Hot Stuff!! Chili Cook-off Seeks Entrants

Attention Tex-Mex lovers and habanera pepper cravers! Does the term ‘hot stuff” describe your chili?  Every time you taste someone else's, do you find yourself thinking, "You call this chili?"  If so, the Hudson Valley Chili Cook-Off could be your opportunity to finally get
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Style

Cedar Heights Orchard in Dutchess County on Open Days Tour

Garden Conservancy Open Days are drawing to a close for the season.  On Saturday, September 13, there is just one in our region, Cedar Heights Orchard, William and Arvia Morris' large property in Rhinebeck, New York. After a major storm twelve years ago, the Morris' created a “wild”
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Community

Historic-Site Hopping: New York's First Heritage Weekend

2009 has been a big year for the Hudson River Valley.   The Quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's discovery of his namesake river has launched a thousand ships and a history feeding frenzy.  Now that we're all in the mood, what better time to introduce a lovely custom
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Style

Decorate Like A Pro: Custom Curtains by Kristen Foster

Interior designers sell taste. They also sell connections. And if you are one of those people who's confident in your taste but don't  know the artisans who can execute your ideas, you should make an appointment with Kristen Foster, a master curtain maker in Falls Village,
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Food

The Pizza Farm Files: Recipes, Part II

Who better to ask how to cook vegetables than the people who grow them? That's why the clever designers at Winterhouse, who conceieved the Pizza Farm, produced these nifty recipe cards, which feature good eats from Farm Girl Farm in Egremont, MA, Good Dogs Farm in Ashley Falls,
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