Rural Intelligence (Page 721)

Parties

Olana's Colorful Festival of Chinese Music, Lanterns and Dance

Inspiration for the Olana Partnership's Seventh Annual Summer Party came from a Chinese bed that was amongst Hudson River School painter Frederic Church's vast collection of international treasures and still lives on Olana's second floor, a Forbidden City all its own that we all

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Art Omi: The Shangri la on the Hill

On Saturday, July 18, at the culmination of their annual International Artists Residency, Art Omi gave a farewell party for this year's residents on the eve of Open Studios day. Each year, approximately 30 artists, some established, others emerging, are selected from a pool of applicants that generally

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Arts

Berkshire Fringe Festival Grows Up

Fringe founders Peter Wise, Sara Katzoff & Timothy Ryan Olson The Berkshire Fringe Festival operates in the spirit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which started in Scotland in 1947, when eight theater troupes turned up uninvited at Edinburgh International Fesitval and had to perform on the outskirts of the city.

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Food

The Sweet William's Smell of Success

Sweet William's Bakery is no longer the worst-kept secret in Falls Village, CT. For the past two and a half years, Jason Young has baked cookies during the week for his wholesale accounts (including Guido's and the Berkshire Co-op Market) and officially opened only

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Shakespeare & Company Is Up to the Challenge

What better way to raise money for a theater company than with a one-time-only theater event? Shakespeare & Company, which needs to raise $1 million to get an $800,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to complete its $10 million capital campaign, invited supporters to see a

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Community

Fitch's Corner Horse Trials This Weekend

Now in its 16th summer, the Fitch’s Corner Horse Trials in Millbrook this weekend, are, in essence, a competition, with each horse performing three disciplines. Dressage will take place at 8 a.m. Saturday morning, and there will be cross-country jumping and stadium jumping on both days. Two

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Style

The Wandering Eye: The Mills Mansion

Barely back from another research trip for their book on the great houses of Cuba, our intrepid blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney and his long-suffering spouse Hermes Mallea [Writer's Note: Rather brutal editorializing, RI guys...], an architect, both of M (Group), have hit the historic house trail

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Invitation to a Wild Party

According to local legend, a few years ago, Midwesterners Linda Horn and Allan Davidson threw a dart at a map of the Northeast, and it landed on Spencertown, NY, where they have lived and gardened ever since. This weekend, Horn, an artist, invites anyone who is interested to their property

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A Midsummer's Night Music at Aston Magna

Aston Magna is the name of both a Great Barrington estate with stunning views of the Taconic range and a 37-year-old music-and-humanities foundation that is devoted to early music and its cultural context. On Saturday night, the latter celebrated at the former following a concert of

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AgriCulture & Academia

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown. This week Mark writes: Peter and I are both refugees from the academic world (he actually taught -- I determined midway through graduate school that teaching, and the academic world, were not for me) so between us we

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Arts

Dan's Diary: The Best of All Possible Worlds

Every summer, Berkshire Theatre Festival mounts one or two important and historic plays that I have never seen or read, and I am always grateful to BTF for filling in the gaps in my education. Nowadays, as large-cast musicals become prohibitively expensive to produce, we should rejoice whenever they

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Openings: Synchronicity at Bard SummerScape

Bard opened its seventh annual SummerScape Festival on Saturday, July 11, with a gala dinner in the Spiegeltent (left) and a performance of Lucinda Child's 1979 Dance, a landmark collaboration with composer Philip Glass and artist Sol LeWitt, who made the black-and-white movie that is projected

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