Rural Intelligence (Page 719)

Parties

Spencertown Academy: Bubbles, Barbecue & the Blues

It was perfect weather for blowing bubbles (Mike Grenny astonishing his daughter Lila, left) on Saturday night, and for the Spencertown Academy's beer-straight-from-the-bottle with pulled-pork-and-ribs-barbecue at Austerlitz Town Supervisor George Jahn's farm in Spencertown. Let's Eat,

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Parties

The Wassaic Project Is A Must-See Art World Happening

The Wassaic Project Summer Festival, which opened on Friday, August 14, is ambitious, audacious, and an absolute blast. As RI reported a few week ago, it is the brainchild of Eve Biddle, Elan Bogarin and Bowie Zunino (whose family has had a house in Kent, CT for 30 years.) It

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Community

“Taking Woodstock” Benefit at the Moviehouse in Millerton

Next Thursday, August 27, The Moviehouse in Millerton will host two benefit screenings of Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, portions of which were filmed last summer on Route 22 at the Lone Pine Farm in Millerton. The remainder of the film was shot in nearby

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Arts

Dan's Diary: "A Streetcar Named Desire" Is A Great Ride

You don't see Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire produced very often because it is almost impossible to cast. (ReadThe New York Times' Ben Brantley on the 2005 New York production with John C. Reilly.) After all these years, it still needs an actor who

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Food

Canning, Pickling and Preserving: A Monthlong Workshop

Not since the days of Victory Gardens have these homely kitchen skills had such currency, thanks to the convergence, presumably, of the gardening craze, the locavore movement, and the economic meltdown. Even last summer, when we all still had robust 401Ks, classes in these three nearly-lost arts were sell

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Community

Rachel Maddow at Jacob's Pillow

Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC news star, who has a weekend house in Cummington, MA, came to Jacob's Pillow for a talk on Saturday afternoon, and it was SRO on the Inside/Out stage. What does Maddow know about dance? “I know nothing about dance," she told Scholar-

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Food

Agri-Culture: Talking Turkey, The Last Word

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer, are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown. This week Peter writes: I am sure you have all been on pins and needles, awaiting the final chapter on turkeys. After almost four hundred years of domestication and selective breeding, by 1900, the turkey had changed

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Parties

Berkshire Botanical Garden's 75th Birthday Party

Guests were greeted by actors dressed as birch trees for the Berkshire Botanical Garden's 75th birthday party on Saturday, August 8, in Stockbridge. The hands-on board of trustees had been involved with every aspect of planning the event, creating wonderful wire-and-crystal chandeliers for the tent

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Parties

"FARM: Painting, Photography & Sculpture" Opens at Stonover

Suky Werman is blessed with a great eye and generous heart, which is why hundreds of people descended on the Barn Gallery at Stonover Farm for the opening of FARM: Painting, Photography & Sculpture, which Werman had been planning since winter. It features the work of many local artists, including

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Food

Olde Heritage Tavern

Where the locals go to have fun

By Lisa Green

Arts

Dan's Diary: WTF Lights A Fire Under "The Torch-Bearers"

You might consider The Torch-Bearers at Williamstown Theatre Festival theater-for-theater's sake. The play itself—a 1922 chestnut by George Kelly that has been "adapted" by director Dylan Baker—seems like an excuse for artistic director Nicky Martin to fill the Main Stage with

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Style

The Wandering Eye: The Taconic, Reconsidered

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are princpals in the M (Group). So, there we are cruising along the Taconic headed back to town on a pleasant Sunday evening. Pondering. Pensive. Bored out of my gourd. What to fix The Eye on next?

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