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Mother's Day: The Rural Intelligence Gift Guide

Mother's come in all sizes, shapes, and persuasions. Whether yours is an earth mother, a soccer mom, the Queen Mum, as modern as MOMA or as comfortable as an old slipper, the perfect gift for her lies close at hand; no shipping required. Some thoughts... Early-blooming, bird-

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Preview: The 3rd Annual Berkshire International Film Festival

If you play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with Kelley Vickery, it's pretty certain she will win. As the founder and director of the 3rd annual Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF), she's watched almost every one of the actor's 60 films to

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Playing by the Rules: The Faulkner 14

Many interior designers, when pressed for useful advice, will say, "It's impossible to generalize--there are no hard and fast rules." Not Frank Faulkner. An artist who also practices interior design (he says) by default or (we say) by popular demand, Faulkner speaks of his sideline

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Shopping: Our Lady of The Lamps

We all know someone who grows lettuce for a living and people who spin their own wool, blow glass or bake bread the old-time, labor-intensive way, fashioning a career by keeping craft and tradition alive. When you first walk into Susan Schneider's lamp shop in Millerton,

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Parties

Shakespeare & Company Celebrates the Bard's Birthday

Shakespeare & Company celebrated the Bard's 444th birthday in Lenox on Wednesday night with a party and performance that featured excerpts from the company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which has traveled 20,000 miles this winter to play before more than 40,000 students.

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Dutchess County Realtors Rebuild Together

Starr Place was the setting on Thursday evening of a benefit pour for the Dutchess County branch of Rebuilding Together, a national organization that lends a hand (and more) to those who cannot properly maintain their homes. This year in Dutchess alone, over 100 sponsors and contributors and more than

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The Maestro of Bard College

"At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel," Leon Botstein once said. Leon Botstein has spent the past 33 proving that he's the exception to the rule. As the president of Bard College since 1975, he

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Books: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Women of a certain age will recall the famous "click" moment, identified and immortalized in 1971 by Jane O'Reilly in the preview issue of Ms. magazine--that nano-second in which a woman becomes a feminist, invariably as a reaction to a stinging sexist insult. But

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Food

Beyond Chopped Liver: Gigi's Chicken Liver Pâté

The other day I took a drive out to Gigi's Market at Greig Farm, which is tucked away half a mile off Route 9 in Red Hook. For lunch, I ordered the Bianca Skizza, a flatbread "pizza" that's an intoxicating combination of figs, Coach

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Hands On: Stone Walls and Stone or Brick Paving

Nothing classes up a property like a bit of stone hardscape. It is that rarity in design--a thing that is at once humble and grand (indoors, a fine old wood floor makes a similar contribution). This Saturday (or, in case of rain, Sunday), at the Berkshire Botanical Garden, Mark

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A Tiny House With A Big Heart

When you visit Kimberly Rock and Eric Haggard's doll-sized house on Main Street in Falls Village, it's immediately apparent that they're a child-centered family. The grandest room in their 1840s eyebrow colonial is their daughters' playroom, an addition they built for

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Wake Up and Smell the Bargains!

“Back in the early 90s, there were properties that went as bargains," says Pat Best principal broker at Best & Cavallaro in Salisbury, CT, "and a lot of people, including myself, missed some buying opportunities. This feels a lot like that.” Chuck Bartolo of Beach and Bartolo in

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