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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.

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Garden: A Rake's Progress

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey offers sympathy for those who have to engage

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Garden: The How and Why of Fall Foliage

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by Brian Cruey, who as General Manager of Naumkeag for the Trustees of Reservations, knows about beautiful gardens. Somewhere, buried deep in the depths of the memory graveyard known as

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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

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Garden: Falling for the Crocus

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey rethinks his reservations about autumn and waxes poetic

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Garden: Growing Garlic

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey tells us how easy -- and necessary -- it is

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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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Garden: Mum's The Word

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey discusses the surprising longevity of a flowering plant

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Garden: Frost Warnings

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey explains how to protect your plants from impending

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Shopping: Linen and Then Some In Great Barrington

By Dale Stewart “Linen is the best fabric out there, not just because of the crisp, clean look it provides, but because it also keeps you warm in the winter and cool in the summer," William Caligari says while showing the simple detail in a $600 sheet set by

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