Community Kinderhook Farm: A Fantasy Vacation Destination When she was five-years-old, Renee Iacone Clearman's family planned to go to a farm for a vacation. "I was delirious!," she recalls. "I packed all my clothes into grocery bags. Then my father got sick, so we couldn't go." Decades By Editor
Community 20 Questions for Author Frank Delaney of Kent, CT In literary circles, Frank Delaney is best known as a best-selling novelist and radio and television interviewer. In the Rural Intelligence region, he's known as a bon vivant and husband of the exuberant novelist Diane Meier. Delaney's latest novel, The Matchmaker of Kenmare, is a By Editor
Community Dress Rehearsal for IS 183's Annual Costume Party The annual IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires costume ball and dance party has evolved to become one of those mythic—and epic—galas that define a certain bobo Berkshire lifestyle. The yearly challenge is to create a party that surpasses the previous one in both creativity and fundraising By Editor
Community A Birthday Celebration for W.E.B. Du Bois By Kathryn Matthews "One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder…."—W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 This By Editor
Community The Norman Rockwell Museum's Social Conscience As anyone who has visited the Norman Rockwell Museum well knows, the artist had a well-defined social conscience that is evidenced in such iconic paintings as The Problem Everybody Lives With, The Golden Rule, Moving Day and the Four Freedoms paintings that he made during World War II to By Editor
Community Club Helsinki and The Next Stage in Hudson's Evolution Once construction was finally done, Club Helsinki Hudson proceeded to have such a prolonged, soft opening—months of sound checks, followed by a long wait for the chef, Hugh Horner, to finally take up his post—there was never a clear ta-dum! moment for the rejoicing to begin. Even By Editor
Community 20 Questions for 'Playdate' Author Thelma Adams Thelma Adams's just published novel, Playdate (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press) is more than a comedy of manners about living the good life in Southern California. It's an affectionate and empathetic portrait of a house husband, whose dirty little secret is how much By Editor
Community Staycation: A Better Way to Celebrate Valentine’s Day Candlelight, wine, a sumptuous dinner a deux topped off with a shared molten chocolate something-or-other. Finally, she kicks off her stilettos…to pull on her snow boots. As the couple bundles up in coats, hats, mufflers and gloves, they brace themselves for the ardor-squelching frigid night air By Editor
Community A Currier & Ives Sunday in Stockbridge Long before snow tires and four-wheel drive, the residents of our region travelled by horse-drawn sleighs during the winter. The Colonial Carriage & Driving Society will recreate those bygone days on Sunday, January 16, at The Winter Classic Sleigh Rally at Orleton Farms in Stockbridge. (The event was By Editor
Community The Best of Media Matters 2010, Part II It's not only The New York Times that is fascinated by what's happening in our territory. Many magazines, blogs and newspapers reported on our region,too. Here's some of the greatest hits, compiled by Dan Shaw, from the "Media Matters" column on By Editor
Community RI's Second Annual Holiday Poem Deck the Halls and Share the Bounty Greetings friends in Litchfield County. Hark to folks who hail from Dutchess, And Columbians, as much as, Those from Berkshire, self-possessed, We share a land, for which we're blessed. Not just in this festive season, But year ‘round, and with By Editor
Community Community: Spreading the Love We hear it every day, "I love Rural Intelligence." And though we never tire of it, lately we find ourselves wondering, how can we turn all that good will into something more concrete, something that benefits both Rural Intelligence and the not-for-profits that play such a By Editor
