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Blantyre Opens The Door To Be Manor-Born For The Moment

By Lisa Green They took the private sign down. “We want the local community to experience Blantyre," says Christopher Brooks, the new general manager, who served as its chef for 12 years. After a hospitality stint in Nantucket, he’s back at the exquisite Scottish-inspired country manor. Owner

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The Rural We: Darcie Sosa

Darcie Sosa is the first to admit she has a full and robust work schedule. But it allows her to interact with new people and travel all over her beloved Berkshires. After graduating UMASS in Amherst, she returned back home to the Berkshires and quickly immersed herself in the arts,

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The Rural We: Alexander Sovronsky

Photo by Abby Wood. Alexander Sovronsky is an actor, multi-instrumentalist, and the resident composer at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. His career highlights include composing for, and acting and playing music in, the 2007 Broadway production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" (starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner)

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The Rural We: Simon Treadway Gato

Simon Treadway Gato, the four-legged Lobby Ambassador of The Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, MA, has the important job of greeting visitors, posing for photos, and making himself available for head scratches and tummy pats. Simon escorts guests to their rooms and, on rare occasions, spends the night. This

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10 Things To Love About New Milford

By Jacque Lynn Schiller Of Connecticut’s largest town (in square miles), I was really only familiar with two New Milford attractions, The Silo at Hunt Hill Farm —where I’m determined to take a cooking class before the year is out — and the famed, funky Elephant Trunk’s Country

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Eye On Hudson: Five New Hotspots You Should Know About

By Jamie Larson You hear it all the time: those who occasionally visit Hudson will remark on the many changes they've encountered since their last swing through town. New businesses are always opening and the end of summer 2015 was an especially active time for the little city’

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The Rural We: Stan Hirson

Stan Hirson started his professional career as a documentary filmmaker in Boston. He covered the civil rights movement in the South and made film portraits of James Baldwin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Hirson joined the documentarians Maysles brothers and was involved in films such as The

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Frankenstein And Dracula Have Some Things To Say In Litchfield

From a "Miracle on 34th Street" production. Photos courtesy Peter Tavino. The Rural Intelligence region excels in community spirit, and in Litchfield, some of the spookiest spirits are coming to life in Halloween Radio Plays being produced at the Oliver Wolcott Library on Oct. 27 and 28. The

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Meet Your Makers At North Adams Open Studios

You can visit our area’s many fantastic museums at any time (and you should), but how often do you get to peek inside the studios and homes of loft-living artists? The answer is one weekend a year: October 17 and 18 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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The Rural We: Janice Kaplan

Janice Kaplan is the author of the current best seller, “The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life," a research-backed memoir of her year of living gratefully. Four years ago, she and her husband bought a country home in Kent, Conn.

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The Rural We: Jeff Daly

Ancramdale resident Jeff Daly is the retired head of Museum Design for Exhibits and Capital Projects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But he's still heavily involved in that world as board chair of the Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon and a museum design consultant for projects around the

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The Rural We: Nicholas Lenski

Born and raised in northern Berkshire County, Nicholas “Nick" Lenski is the man behind Brier Road Guitars, where he’s been making acoustic steel string guitars, mandolins and ukuleles by hand for the past four years. In his North Adams studio, where he shares space with fellow luthier and

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