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10 Things To Love About Rhinebeck

By Robert Burke Warren If you’re looking for a distinctive combo of arts mecca, small-town cool and historic significance, Rhinebeck is the ticket. As we noted a few years back, for both locals and out-of-towners, this charming town is a rich resource for fun, relaxation, and edification. With easy

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Regional Rambles: Short And Easy Winter Hikes

By Jamie Larson With the Berkshire Mountains and the Hudson River in our midst, we are fortunate to live in a region of incomparable beauty. A long, invigorating weekend hike through our forests, streams, hills and fields will leave one deeply awed by the humble grandeur of it all… (Insert

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Jumpfest Weekend Leaps Into New Activities

By Sarah Ellen Rindsberg Photo by Kathleen Doyle. Get your hand and foot warmers out; now you’re all set to join the thousands of spectators at the annual Jumpfest Weekend at the Satre Hill Ski Jumps in Salisbury on February 7-9. The weekend has been a highlight of winter

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Holiday Celebrations and Shopping

Holiday spirit is highly infectious, but one trip to any mall will guarantee immunity well past New Year's Eve. Our small town holiday festivals, on the other hand, are veritable petri dishes of the stuff. Attend any or several of the many scattered throughout our region and you

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Catching The Holiday Spirit: Celebrations and Shopping

Holiday spirit is highly infectious, but one trip to any mall will guarantee immunity well past New Year's Eve. Our small town holiday festivals, on the other hand, are veritable petri dishes of the stuff. Attend any or several of the many scattered throughout our region this weekend

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Autumn Walks With A Purpose: Heritage Walks Weekends

By Shawn Hartley Hancock What could be better than a leisurely walk on a crisp autumn day? Not much. Unless it’s dozens of walks, each with a different flavor and distinct point of view, led by an expert. That’s what Housatonic Heritage has planned for its impressive 12th

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Lime Rock Limelight: Litchfield's Historic Race Car Parade

By Penny Stirling Michels “Start your engines!" A colorful caravan of privately owned and lovingly maintained vintage race cars takes to the back roads of Litchfield County, Thursday, August 29, for Lime Rock's Historic Festival, a humming herald to the beginning of Labor Day Weekend.  The line-up

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Hudson's Oliver Bronson House: History in Brackets

By Shawn Hartley Hancock Among the Hudson Valley’s many historic homes is one that’s still a well-kept secret, mostly because of its location on the grounds of the Hudson Correctional Facility, an impediment that adds an obstacle for visitors sensitive to strip searches. (We’re kidding about the

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Trade Secrets: The Ultimate Destination for Plants and Antiques

By Dan Shaw One of the unspoken fears in our neck of the woods is that our area will eventually become like the Hamptons, with the helicopters of hedge-fund managers hovering over our hills and women toting their tomatoes from the farmers' market in Hermès bags. Of course, residents

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Making A Day of Hyde Park

Springwood, the Dutchess County estate commonly (though erroneously) called Hyde Park, is to the pantheon of great American houses what Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its scion, is to the pantheon of great American men— perhaps not the most brilliant, but so preternaturally confident, relaxed, good-humored, and patrician that any shortcomings are

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Another New Era for the Salisbury Ski Jumps

There are not many spectator sports that make it worth your while to stand outside in frigid weather, but the annual Salisbury Ski Jumps are an exception because they're so thrilling—and heartwarming. The venerable competition (February 8 - 10), which is an unofficial proving ground for future

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High Art Meets Hootenanny at MASS MoCA's FreshGrass Fest

Infamous Stringdusters perform on 9/21 “People might think of museums as being places where you have to be quiet and careful,” says Katherine Myers, director of public relations and marketing at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. "But MASS MoCA -- we like to try new things." The

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