Community Elephant's Trunk Flea Market Opens for Its 33rd Season What can you find at the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market? The better question is What can't you find? The Elephant's Trunk in New Milford, CT, has been going strong for 33 years, and it's low on the antiques food chain, a popular By Editor
Parties A Belated Opening Celebration at HunterBee in Millerton Four months after opening their antiques shop in Millerton, Kent Hunter and Jonathan Bee (left with Moira Kelly) had a cocktail party in their store, HunterBee, to thank their neighbors and customers for their enthusiastic support during difficult times. Many guests said the ebullient fellows had done much to foster By Editor
Parties "These Days: Elegies for Modern Times" Opening at MASS MoCA April showers—of both the rain and snow variety—did not deter large crowds of visitors from attending the opening reception of These Days: Elegies for Modern Times at MASS MoCA. It’s a definitively dark show, appropriately enough for the cloudy weather, but that didn’t dampen the spirits By Editor
Arts Elizabeth Cunningham Brings Her Latest "Maeve" to Oblong Books Fans (and you know who you are) of the Maeve Chronicles, Elizabeth Cunningham's series of novels that combine scholorship, whimsy, and delectable fiction to relate the life, times, and spiritual journey of a Celtic Mary Magdalene, named Maeve, may meet the author and hear her read from her By Editor
Food Succulent & Secular: Lamb for Easter or Passover Though I love the comfort foods of winter, spring is welcome in my kitchen, and not just because it means less cursing as I carry in boxes of groceries. If my first-favorite food holiday is Thanksgiving, Easter and Passover are close runners-up (though I observe neither, I enjoy By Editor
Arts "These Days: Elegies for Modern Times" Opening at MASS MoCA These days I seem to think about How all the changes came about my way And I wonder if I'll see another highway —Jackson Browne These Days: Elegies for Modern Times, the new exhibit opening on April 4 at MASS MoCA, gets its name from a Jackson Browne By Editor
Community Best Laid Plans: Mount Merino Manor Lodgings that bill themselves as bed-and-breakfasts tend to be hard by well-traveled roads, the better to catch the eye of passing tourists. Another reason: less competition from big spenders; therefore, a better price. To run a successful b & b, one must first find a house this By Editor
Style Let Us Now Praise Rhinebeck's 5 & 10 Cent Store: A.L. Stickle The village of Rhinebeck is surrounded by landmarks like Wilderstein and Montgomery Place, but the only truly living, breathing historic site is the A.L. Stickle variety store on East Market Street. Stickle's is the last of a breed. It's the quintessential small town 5 & By Editor
Parties Berkshire International Film Festival Preview Party After combing through more than 500 submissions, Berkshire International Film Festival founder Kelley Vickery announced the roster of films for her fourth annual festival on March 27 at the sprawling Victorian home of Lisa Newmann and Sandy Sanderson in Housatonic, reports cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein. There’s a strong current By Editor
Food Railroad Street Youth Project: A Cause for Rebels Last week Matt Rubiner of Rubiner's Cheesemongers in Great Barrington attended a fundraiser in New York City for Railroad Street Youth Project. He writes: "Railroad Street Youth Project is a Great Barrington-based organization that provides a safe haven for the at-risk youth of southern Berkshire By Editor
Arts A Native Son Returns to the 4th Annual Kent Film Festival Ethan Mechare, an actor, writer and filmmaker who grew up in Falls Village, CT, where his mother is now the First Selectman, is returning home from California for the Kent Film Festival. His documentary, Work Harder (click on the title to see the trailer), which chronicles the lives of Acela By Editor
Community Is The Mount Haunted? The Mount, author Edith Wharton's splendid 1902 Lenox property, wasn't the first great estate built as a diversion from an unhappy marriage, nor will it be the last. But haunted? Apparently there's sufficient evidence to warrant an investigation by a t.v. show called By Editor
