Rural Intelligence (Page 712)

Parties

Sunset Supper and Moonlight Magic at The Clark

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports from Williamstown: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s gala dinner on June 6 had a quasi-Adirondack theme, which referenced Georgia O’Keeffe’s summers at Alfred Stieglitz’s estate on Lake George. The party marked the opening of the exhibition Dove/O’

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Parties

"Contained Exuberance" Opens at Berkshire Botanical Garden

The trustees and other passionate supporters of the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge gathered on Saturday June 6 to toast blogger Margaret Roach of A Way To Garden and Bob Hyland of Loomis Creek Nursery, who designed and installed the exhibit "Contained Exuberance," which features 11 different sets

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Community

Inside the WAMC Northeast Public Radio Fund Drive

WAMC really is our radio station. I did not fully comprehend this concept until I went to Albany on Thursday, June 4, to volunteer to answer phones for the fund drive. While WAMC (90.3 Albany, WOSR 91. 7 Middletown, WCEL 91.9 Plattsburgh, et al ) does plenty of original

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Food

Café Les Baux

Authentic Southeastern France regional classics

By Lisa Green

Food

At Long Last, It's Strawberry Season Again

If you're a regular at the Lenox Farmers's Market or Hudson Farmers' Market, you've already had a taste of summer. For the last couple of weeks, Bonnie and Ron Samascott of Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook have been selling their incredibly juicy and sweet

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Food

Cold Comfort: 8 Fruit Soup Recipes from "Cooking Know-How"

"We refer to ourselves as the hardest working cookbook writers that no one has ever heard of," Mark Scarbrough said a few week ago before he and his life-partner and collaborator, Bruce Weinstein, left on a three-week publicity tour for their 15th book, Cooking Know-How

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Style

Shopping: The Discreet Charm of the Upscale Sale

There are few things in life more gratifying than a bargain. What else can make us feel this way—so virtuous (think of the savings!), yet so naughty (what a steal!), all at once? This weekend, there are a couple of upscale sales that are worthy of the attention of

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Arts

Dan's Diary: Berkshire Playwrights Lab Champions New Drama

Although the Berkshires' four leading theater companies—Barrington Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival—all produce new plays along with classics and crowd-pleasers, only the Berkshire Playwrights Lab is devoted exclusively to new work by both established and emerging playwrights. To kick off

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Food

Guinea Fowl - Exterminating Angels?

Peter Davies of Turkana Farms writes: My interest in guinea fowl, dating back some thirty years, was probably initially more aesthetic than culinary. I liked the look of the flocks I saw moving like a single undulating organism across summer-house lawns in the Hamptons. I only learned about the

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Parties

Berkshire Museum Wine Auction in Two Acts

Cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein reports: It was a bittersweet year for the 7th biennial Berkshire Museum Wine Auction, which was dedicated to the memory of auction co-founder Sheila Chefetz, who died in 2008. In tribute to his late wife, Mike Chefetz served as co-chair with Jacqueline and Al

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Parties

Old and New Mingle at Tom Swope's Gallery in Hudson

Tom Swope set out an elegant table of wine and cheese beneath one of White Webb's Intaglio chandeliers on Saturday evening in Hudson. Some guests arrived early in tuxedos on their way to the Columbia Memorial Hospital Ball in Catskill. Other Warren Street shopkeepers came late after cashing

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Community

The Quadricentennial Flotilla on the Hudson

It's hard to say which is the more iconic ship for this region—Henry Hudson's Half Moon (left) or the Hudson River sloop Clearwater, which we tend to think of (erroneously) as Pete Seeger's boat. Luckily, next week, from Tuesday the 9th when they

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