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Hetrick-Martin Institute Celebrates Fall at Horizon Hill

By Kathryn Matthews Beneath a vibrant canopy of crimson, orange and gold, 130 guests gathered on September 25th for the 5th annual Hetrick-Martin Institute Fall Fest Cocktail at Horizon Hill, the 35-acre Dutchess County property of A/X Armani Exchange CEO Harlan Bratcher and his partner, Toby Usnik, Christie’s

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Berkshire Grown Throws The Ultimate Nosh-a-Thon

By 6:30 p.m., the ostensible starting time, the stable-turned-party-space at the Eastover Hotel & Resort in Lenox,  was hopping.  "They start lining up at 6," explains Barbara Zheutlin, Executive Director of Berkshire Grown, of the hundreds of ticket buyers at this year's sold-out Berkshire

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The Berkshire Forum Bows at The Colonial Theatre

Bess J.M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield: The usually casual Berkshires saw a preponderance of jackets and business wear swarm its central city as the first Berkshire Forum convened at The Colonial Theatre on September 14.The three-day forum¹s theme, "Cultivating Commerce, Culture and Creative Entrepreneurship," drew

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Foodies & Farmers Come Together in Connecticut

Connecticut has been ahead of the curve when it comes to locavorism. Ten years ago, the Connecticut Farmland Trust held its first annual Celebration of Connecticut Farms fundraiser where chefs and food-and-beverage producers serve up food and drink from across the Nutmeg State. This year's massive party was

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Hammertown Barn's 25th Anniversary Celebration

No one is as passionate about supporting local businesses, farmers, craftsmen and charities as Hammertown Barn founder Joan Osofsky, who had a "farm-to-table grazing" party on September 5 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her home furnishings and lifestyle stores at the flagship in Pine Plains. As guests

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Celebration of The Written and Spoken Word at The Mount

The Mount, writer Edith Wharton's magnificent property in Lenox (executive director Susan Whistler, at right), was the scene on Wednesday August 25 of a party celebrating the release of an audio book, Edith Wharton on Audio, Vol. 1, three stories by Wharton read by Shakespeare and Company’s

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Word X Word Festival's Party on the Roof

It's just four stories up from North Street to the rooftop of the Greystone Building, but you feel like you've been transported far from gritty downtown Pittsfield. With panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and the inspiring steeple of neighboring St. Joseph's lending a

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Volunteers in Medicine Goes Wild for the West

When VIM Berkshires held its annual fundraiser on Saturday, August 21, at the Wyantenuck Country Club in Great Barrington, every doctor in the house (and they were legion) could have passed for Doc Holiday.  To do justice to the Old West saloon decor, attendees reached deep into their closets to

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Berkshire Grown's Mid-Summer Farm-to-Table Feast.

Jim Finnerty and Carole Murko (left with Maurice Peterson of Seven Salon) had an intimate fundraising dinner at Boulderwood, their historic Stockbridge home, to benefit Berkshire Grown, the organization that facilitates the farm-to-table movement in all sorts of ways. Murko, who is the creator and executive producer of Heirloom Meals,

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Isabella Freedman's Feast in the Field

The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT, which hosts workshops and retreats all year long, prides itself on being inclusive, according to executive director Ellen Carton: "We are all ages and allstreams of Judaism—we’re reform, maintream, conservative, liberal, renewal, post renewal, orthodox, orthoflex, spiritual,

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Berkshire Botanical's Fête des Fleurs avec Voitures

Fleurs, voitures, despite the facile rhyme, flowers and cars generally don't turn up in the same place at the same time.  But on Saturday, August 14, at the Berkshire Botanical Garden's summer party at the Pittsfield home of Ann and Dale Fowler, the hosts' renowned

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Hancock Shaker Village's 50th Anniversary Gala

Fifty years ago, a few visionary people saw the "For Sale" sign on the corner of Routes 20 and 41 on the Hancock/Pittsfield border and decided that the old Shaker village might be worth saving. That 1,000 acres could be purchased for $125,000 in the

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