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The Country Living Fair: Highly Curated, Extremely Shoppable

By Andrea Pyros The Country Living Fair is coming to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds for the second year in a row this June 6-8. If you’re looking to replenish your tube sock drawer, keep on driving. This is not the fair for you. But if you’re interested in

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Lynn Chase Inspires Dinner Conversations and Conservation

A display of porcelain from Lynn Chase Designs at TK Home and Garden. By Lisa Green For Lynn Chase, it’s all about the animals. She’s a conservationist to the core. Even when you try to get the self-taught artist and product designer to talk about Lynn Chase Designs,

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Haldora Offers Classic Fashion Designed In Rhinebeck

By Andrea Pyros Women’s fashion designer Haldora spent much of her life traveling in the states and abroad. But when it came time to pick a dream location for her eponymous clothing boutique, she chose Rhinebeck. “I was always drawn to the area. I’m extremely visual and the

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Nothing Says I Love You Like Artisanal Jewelry

By Robert Burke WarrrenIt’s become a mantra of sorts: Shop Local. Buy Local. Fortunately, our local is no yokel, as a look at some of the artisan jewelers in the Rural Intelligence area can attest. We’d never turn our noses up at Tiffany & Co., of course, but

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The Year In Shopping

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Google Analytics, it’s that you like to read about shopping, and, we presume, put your proclivities into action. Over the course of the past year, Rural Intelligence went on its own hunt to introduce you to the newest, or most

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It Is Easy Being Green: Eco-Friendly Gifts

By Nichole Dupont Leave only footprints, and we don't mean large carbon ones. This is a hard and fast and generally respected mantra while out on the trail or camping in a state park. But, for some reason, the mantra doesn’t hold when it comes to Christmas

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A Lot of Giving at Somethin's Gotta Give in Lakeville

By Sarah Ellen Rindsberg Modernist yet playful. This is the vision on view at Somethin’s Gotta Give, the newest addition to the retail mix in Lakeville, Connecticut. The refined aesthetic with a local feel evolved from the combination of proprietor James Knight’s proclivities and own needs in furnishing

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No More Mall Madness: Basilica Hudson Beats Black Friday With Farm & Flea

By Robert Burke Warren Everyone complains about Black Friday. You want to get holiday shopping done on the long Thanksgiving weekend, but the impersonal malls are packed, people are rude, the food is toxic, and increasingly, you realize money spent at big box stores draws support away from local economies,

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Shopping: LOCAL, A Find A Bit Out of Town

By Marilyn Bethany "We are doing very well," says Michele O'Hana, via a crackling Skype connection from her childhood home in West Cork, Ireland, where she was spending time with her family. "Repeat that please," I shout. In these improved but still tough economic

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Lou Blass and Don Friday of Ad Lib Antiques Take Off Into The Future

By Jamie Larson Browsing the high-end antique haven of Hudson NY can make shoppers feel as though they are lost in time. What’s old is new again and beautiful art objects pulled from a thousand different moments in history exist together alongside designs right at the cutting edge. At

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The Little Bookstore(s) That Could: Oblong Thrives in a Shifting Marketplace

By Robert Burke Warren “Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated." --Mark Twain Although the bean-counting experts predicted otherwise, Millerton and Rhinebeck, NY’s family-run Oblong Books & Music stores are not only surviving, but thriving. (Illustration of the Millerton branch by Illu Brozyna.) To most, the rise of

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Kitchen Supplies Pepper The Region

By Dale Stewart As the season turns chilly, our thoughts turn from summer salads to hearty stews. Want to do early prep for holiday cooking? Or make an early fall butternut squash soup? There's a gadget for that. Rural Intelligence has rounded up a handful of some of

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