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The Rural We: Rowan Willigan

What do you do when you have a surfeit of talent, energy and interests in a long list of creative realms? If you’re Rowan Willigan, a dancer-choreographer-artist-photographer-teacher and food blogger (we’ve probably left out a few other activities), you do them all. Red Hook,

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The Rural We: Rory Block

Photo by Sergio Kurhajec “Her playing is perfect, her singing otherworldly,” The New York Times has said of singer and guitarist Rory Block. Born in Princeton, N.J., Block grew up in Manhattan, where she was playing guitar by the age of 10 and sitting in on jam sessions in

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The Rural We: Chan Lowe

Chan Lowe, a syndicated editorial cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and other papers, has recently joined the staff of the Berkshire Eagle. He spent 33 years at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, and was a

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The Rural We: Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor has been president of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation since January 2016. His path to philanthropy started while he was associate dean of students at Bates College; that’s when he started to serve on nonprofit boards. He left higher education to work for the Maine Community Foundation.

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An RI Recommendation: The Hudson Valley Then And Now Fest

Photos courtesy Barbara Todd. By Lisa Green Last summer, my husband and I spent a few jam-packed days in Dutchess County, and its brevity notwithstanding, it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable mini vacations I’ve ever had. Which is why, when the Artists Collective of

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Music And Food Take Center Stage At Winery's Summertide

By Jamie Larson Live music, wine and food, all of the highest quality, enjoyed in a meadow overlooking the mountains…sounds like a dream. It also sounds like the Summertide Festival from July 7-9, at Cascade Mountain Winery in Amenia, New York. It feels a little like the setting

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The Rural We: Richard Wise

Locals will recognize Richard Wise as the proprietor of the former R.W. Wise Goldsmiths in Lenox, Mass. Wise is an internationally renowned graduate gemologist, goldsmith and the author of “Secrets of the Gem Trade: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Precious Gem Stones," which has recently been re-released

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The Rural We: Alice Maggio

Alice Maggio is the Executive Director at BerkShares, Inc., as well as Director of Programs at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. Since 2012 she’s worked with the board of BerkShares, now in its 11th year, to use the currency as a tool for local economic development. Maggio

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The Rural We: Phyllis Feder

At 81 years young, Phyllis Feder is the only woman of her age operating a winery and vineyard in the United States. Clinton Vineyards, a 100-acre farm winery in Clinton Corners, New York, was started in 1977 by her late husband, Ben Feder. After his death, in 2009, Phyllis

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Go For The Wine, Stay For The Music, Food, Art And Yoga

Music at White Silo Farm and Winery. By Lisa Green Last week, while doing our research to bring you a roundup of summer outdoor music series, we saw that wineries have become venues for music. We realized, too, that they are offering more than tastings along with a little music

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The Rural We: Shaun O'Boyle

In 2015, Berkshires-based photographer Shaun O’Boyle spent two months in Antarctica, where he took a series of pictures that now comprise his project, “Portraits of Place in Antarctica.” Some of the pictures, which tell the story of historic huts built over 100 years ago by early explorers and

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The Rural We: Jonathan Lerner

Writer Jonathan Lerner became a full-time activist at the age of 19, joining the staff of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 1969, the militant Weatherman faction took over SDS. Lerner was one of its founders, the editor of its newspaper, and a member of the group until

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