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There Are Options To Packing A Picnic At Tanglewood

Yes, we know that the picnic culture at Tanglewood is one of the great joys of the season, something many of us wait and plan for all year. But if on occasion schlepping all that stuff through the parking lot to the lawn feels like too much, you should know

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10 Things To Love About New Lebanon

The Kendall House By Lisa Green In 1787, the Shakers settled in New Lebanon, NY and established a thriving community that today is still a pretty bustling scene, sans the Shakers. If you’ve only thought of the town as the place you pass through as you make your way

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Roads Less Traveled: Out of the Way Places We Love, Part 2

By Jamie Larson Last week we explored some of our favorite out-of-the-way main streets on the New England side of the RI region. This week we’re over in New York, giving due credit to some less-talked-about town centers in Columbia and Dutchess counties. One of the things we love

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Roads Less Traveled: Out of the Way Places We Love, Part 1

The West Cornwall Covered Bridge By Jamie Larson Over the years, we’ve crisscrossed the Rural Intelligence region highlighting the best our towns, villages and cities have to offer. But we have to admit that sometimes we wonder if we're missing out on some hidden treasures as we&

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Learn And Taste At Maplefest (Plus Bake Sale) In Sharon

Just because this isn’t much of a mud season doesn’t mean there won't be a maple sugar harvest to enjoy this year. In our region, you don’t need to go far to find a sugaring operation, and this weekend, Sharon Audubon Center in Sharon, Conn.

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Never Mind The Temps, Jumpfest Goes On (And Turns 90)

Photo: Mel Morales By Lauren Curran Next weekend, when Satre Hill in Salisbury, Conn. is icy and slick and the first ski jumper there soars into flight, a time-honored, local tradition will turn 90. Ski jumping runs deep in the roots of Salisbury and, along with it, the coinciding winter

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10 Things To Love About Monterey

By Rachel Louchen For some residents, the selling point of Monterey is proximity to Great Barrington and other Berkshire towns. To visitors less familiar, Monterey is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it village with a big forest to hike. But it is so much more. There are active community members, great food,

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Your Own Holiday Bubble — Made Of Glass, Made By You

By Lauren Curran You must believe us when we say our intention is to cover every nook and cranny of the Rural Intelligence region. But, okay, there still might be some pockets of wonderfulness here or there in that wide swath we haven’t explored as much as we should.

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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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Four Brothers Drive-In Updates the Classic

By Jamie Larson The drive-in movie theater experience is back in a whole new way in Amenia, NY. With a style that’s classic nostalgia crossed with rustic modern, community events in the daylight, a progressive slate of movies beyond the blockbuster and a full restaurant menu, two sons of

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Artisans Breathe New Life Into Historic Winsted Mill

Don Wass. Photos by David Archambault. By Lauren Curran Here in the Rural Intelligence region, we are blessedly removed from the land of strip malls. We like our commercial areas to be as artistic as the people and contents inside. And we’re fortunate that New England’s history of

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A Day Trip To Daffyness

By Lisa Green Photos courtesy of Allison Stafford. A spring tradition in Litchfield County has been delayed and the blame rests solely on Mother Nature, but even she can’t shut down the happy-making spread of daffodils at Laurel Ridge Narcissus Plantings on Wigwam Road in Northfield. First planted in

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