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You Thought You'd Have Your Mom Forever. And You Do.

Mothers by Martha Holmes Martha Holmes, who lives in Gallatin, NY, worked on Madison Avenue for 30 years. Upon retirement, she and her husband moved to their weekend home full time. This essay, which she read on NPR's 51% in 2005, elicited more requests than any other. Holmes

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Kent Needle Arts Retreat: Namaste For Knitters

It takes a bit of chutzpah to open a yarn shop when you aren’t a knitter yourself. And it takes something — confidence, talent, drive? — to be able to say that within less than a decade there isn’t anything you can’t knit or teach. Nancy Hamilton, owner of

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'Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury' A Portrait Made With Love

By Nichole Dupont Connie Shulman and Laury Sacks. Imagine the most vibrant person in your life; Sharp-witted, the life of the party, compassionate. The story seems always to begin with this beloved main character, who suddenly starts acting very strange. That’s where Laury Sack’s story began, and it’

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Methuselah Bar And Lounge Brings Rustic Chic To North Street

Jennifer Galvagni, Yuki Cohen and Gabe Lloyd. By Amy Krzanik Most restaurants and bars need a while to get on their feet, a few months to find their niche or to attract a loyal following. Methuselah Bar and Lounge on North Street in Pittsfield never seemed to need that time.

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Silo Ridge In Amenia: A Wealth of Controversy In Development

A rendering of the future clubhouse. Image courtesy of Silo Ridge. [Editor’s note: A few weeks ago, we reposted a New York Times article on our Facebook page. For many of us, “When Rural Meets Resort: Hamptons Style Development Comes to the Hudson Valley" was the first we’

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10 Things To Love About Norfolk

By Rachel Louchen The “icebox of Connecticut" has a lot more going for it than severe winters and not terribly hot summers. Norfolk happens to have many cultural destinations and historic sites, surrounded by beautiful state forests that offer hiking, camping and swimming, among other activities. While its proximity

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Talbott & Arding Embraces A Piece Of Hudson’s Past And Present

Photos by Annie Schlechter By Greg Cerio Customers of the new Hudson, NY food shop Talbott & Arding Cheese and Provisions might be so busy admiring the shop’s crisp interior details (white tile, dove-gray wainscoting) that they only glance at the pitted marble counter used to display house-made scones,

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BerkshireFlirt Helps Turn Singles Into Doubles

George Manley, Stephanie Mendoza and Julia Dixon at the Taggart House. Photo courtesy of Marc J. Wrzesinski. By Amy Krzanik If you’ve ever been single and attempted to mingle in Berkshire County, you’ve probably come up against at least two obstacles -- distance and quantity. Due to the

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Gutsy Gals Wanted: Women in Film Honored

By Nichole Dupont Like the skies over the region, the recent Oscars was a dismal affair punctuated by political outbursts of truth (thank you, Patricia Arquette and John Legend) and abysmal-even-for-Hollywood underrepresentation of women across the board. Writer/director/actor and pretty much everything elser Cathryn Michon [in photo, right]

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Get A Round: Scoring At The Meet Market

By Amy Krzanik Tinder, Grindr, GROWLr, Match, Hinge, Scruff: No, this isn’t a long-lost e.e. cummings poem or a list of possible names for a new Brooklyn bar; it’s a list of dating sites and apps and there’s plenty more where they came from. But for

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Food: The Swiss Raclette At Gedney Farm

By Lisa Green I am not a skier. But I can dine like one, and fortunately, the good folks at Gedney Farm in New Marlboro require no ski lift ticket to enjoy the “après ski" Sunday night Swiss raclette. The raclette refers to both the semi-hard cheese and the

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10 Ways To Survive A Snow Day In The RI Region

We invite you to peruse the nearly eight years’ worth of Rural Intelligence archives. It's a good time to make a list of the restaurants you still need to try or the stores you haven’t yet shopped. Not feeling it? Consider some of the options we’ve

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