Rural Intelligence (Page 739)

Arts

A Star is Born? Finn Wittrock in "Candida" at Berkshire Theatre Festival

Annette Miller was hoping to be proved right. When she heard that native son Finn Wittrock was starring in Candida at Berkshire Theatre Festival, she wanted to see if he had lived up to his potential. "When he was ten years old, he used to run lines with me

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The Heart & Soul of Rhinebeck's Paper Trail (Part 2: At Home)

The sentimental and private side of Paper Trail co-owner Maureen Missner is vividly on display at her 1830s house in Clinton Hollow, NY, which is filled with lake-house furniture from her childhood summers in Michigan and Wisconsin. Her dining table's top came from a beloved butcher&

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Food

Robin's Candy Store: The Sweet Smell of Excess

There's a fine line between whimsy and wacky, and Robin Helfand is the tightrope walker behind Robin's Candy Store, which opened on Main Street in Great Barrington on June 21. She's taken the old White Knight Records space and renovated it so that it

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Food

Bubby's is the Burrito Stand of Your Dreams

Update July 2010: Bubby's is now located by Hardeman Orchards.Most people we know turn up their noses at trailers, except for the little trailer near the intersection of Route 9G and Route 199 in Red Hook (or Annandale on Hudson, depending on who you ask), which makes

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Community

The Old Treasures of New Concord

There’s a lot to be said for the New Concord (Columbia County) tour this Saturday: twenty exceptional late 18th- and early 19th-century houses and/or their gardens, including the Hosea Bebe house (above), all in one tiny hamlet so, instead of spending the day climbing in and out

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Litchfield Garden Tour: Michael Trapp's Once-a-Year Day

Anywhere but New England, that’s where you’d guess Michael Trapp’s fabulous garden is, if you had been led there blindfolded. Italy, most likely, maybe France, or someplace hot and decadent, where iguanas scoot across mossy stones and parrots squawk in the trees. In fact, Trapp’s legendary

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The Heart & Soul of Rhinebeck's Paper Trail (Part 1: At Work)

Indie card and party stores are an endangered species. When I need a birthday card, wrapping paper and candles for a cake, I unfortunately find myself heading too often to CVS, Stop & Shop or, most depressingly, Rite Aid. So it's no wonder that the first time I

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Parties

Berkshire Theatre Festival's 80th Birthday Party

In the summer of 1928, during its inaugural season, the Berkshire Theatre Festival (then called the Berkshire Playhouse) staged George Bernard Shaw's Candida, which BTF has revived this summer. As part of the company's 80th birthday celebration, there was cake, petit fours and native strawberries served

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Parties

Barrington Stage Company's G-A-L-A in a School Gym

Barrington Stage Company had secured school buses to take theatergoers who had just watched The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which is set in a school gym, to the gym at St. Joseph Central High School a few blocks away for its annual dinner dance. But most of the

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Arts

Film and talk: The Rape of Europa

For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. And once they were defeated heroic young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a miraculous campaign that would rescue and return millions of art works that had been

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Arts

Maggie Mailer's "The Volcano Sitters" Opens at the Ferrin Gallery

As if it were a collection of short stories, Maggie Mailer has given her new show of paintings a title—The Volcano Sitters—that is metaphoric. As the daughter of legendary novelist Norman Mailer, she instinctively infuses her paintings with narrative and invective, and she is happy to explain in

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Food

It's Pick-Your-Own Strawberry Season

A friend of mine has a theory about local strawberries, which are really the only strawberries worth eating. She believes that you should gorge on strawberries while they're in season and eat them three times a day. She maintains that you should consume nature's bounty in

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