Community Lodgings: The Inn at Hudson, a One-Doily B & B What do you do when it dawns on you, too late, that you may have bought more house than you can afford to maintain? That’s easy; turn it into a b & b. At least, it was easy for Dini Lamot and Windle Davis. A little background: The couple By Editor
Community Summer Starts Here & Now with 3rd Thursday in Pittsfield Pittsfield has become the region's Street Fair Mecca. Megan Whilden, the city's director of cultural development, has mastered the art of organizing a monthly, massive block party. The third year of Third Thursdays, as the street fairs are called, begins on the eve of Memorial Day By Editor
Community Road Trip: Hillsdale Heats Up! What the do-dad is happening to Hillsdale? Long the very definition of a sleepy crossroads, it's suddenly showing signs of, well, awakening. Around these parts, it's usually a sign that things are looking up when a town gets a place to buy fresh fish. Recently, By Editor
Community Rural Rules: 20 Questions for MASS MoCA Director Joe Thompson on the Museum's 10th Anniversary Although MASS MoCA is celebrating its 10th anniversary this weekend, its founding director, Joseph C. Thompson, has been involved with MASS MoCA since it was conceived in 1987. A 1981 graduate of Williams College who has masters degrees in both art history and business from the University of Pennsylvania, Thompson By Editor
Community Tracy Seckler Is A Mother On a Mission To Save Lives Mother's Day, like every other day of the year, is bittersweet for Tracy Seckler. The high-energy, one-time elementary school teacher lives in a 200 year-old-farmhouse in South Egremont, MA, with her adoring husband, Benjamin (a doctor whom she met when they were both undergraduates By Editor
Community The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA I have to make a confession: I was skeptical about staying at Porches. Although I love visiting MASS MoCA, I could not imagine paying to spend a night in converted Victorian factory-workers' houses across from the museum in order to wake up in North Adams instead of my By Editor
Community Dan's Diary: The Daffodil House Every town has one or two. If you're lucky, there may be half a dozen houses with breathtaking fields of daffodils, which make you take scenic detours this time of year. In Salisbury, CT, one of the most stunning roadside attractions belongs to Inge Heckel, the former president By Editor
Community DUI Inc., A Growth Industry Now, let's get one thing straight from the outset: I am against drunk driving, even if it's a friend who is doing it. I have been a supporter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving since it was founded in 1980. I cheered the judge who threw the By Editor
Community Dan's Diary: Berkshire Museum's Stimulus Plan The venerable Berkshire Museum is one of those secret gems in plain sight. Located in the heart of Pittsfield, it is an eclectic family-friendly museum that is especially family friendly for the entire month of May when admission will be free to all. "It's our version By Editor
Community The Racetrack Next Door: Rights Incur Responsibilities On April 21, at the Taghkanic Fire House, at 6:30 p.m. there will be a public hearing before the Zoning Board of Appeals on the controversial issue of Alan Wilzig's proposed racetrack, which has already won Planning Board conditional approval. Here, Sam Pratt, who had been By Editor
Community Passages: Our Blogger Ties the Knot in Connecticut It's not just Connecticut that's full of surprises. This just in from faithful correspondent Carey Maloney. Connecticut Welcomes You! If only you knew how long and how relentlessly we have made fun of Connecticut—the proverbial “state of mind”…Particularly Greenwich. … Precious and preppy. The Upper By Editor
Community The Next Big Thing: Slow Money "Let's bring money down to earth," suggests Woody Tasch, author of Slow Money, Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered. On Earth Day Eve, Friday, April 24, Tasch will share the podium at Time & Space Limited in Hudson with the legendary Paolo Di Croce, By Editor
