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Holiday Gift Guide: Fifty Stores With Under $150 Wonders

Libations, Desserts, and Artisanal Goods Shirecity Fire Cider, Pittsfield Locally made tonic of raw apple cider vinegar and honey, sold in amber glass bottles (16 oz/ $29). Hillrock Estate Distillery, Ancram Field-to-glass handcrafted whiskey distilled on-site from estate-grown grain ($80). 408 Pooles Hill Road (518) 329-1023 Berkshire Mountain Distillers, Great

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Thrifty Chic: New England Girl

“It all started with an end table, then an armoire, and it just blew up. I’m so lucky, I can’t keep my head on straight,” Nicole Goncalves, aka the New England Girl, marvels as she surveys her design studio in an 1800's barn just outside of

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Cordially Yours: The Stationer

Matthew Lynn, owner of Washington Depot’s The Stationer, is perfectly disheveled in a perfectly preppy way, not to mention movie star handsome. It's almost exactly what you’d expect from a small town stationery store owner who keeps shop in an old blacksmith studio with a dirt

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Dynamite Angel: Shoebox Soigné

“I have a rich fantasy life, I dress up to pick up Chinese food,” says Dynamite Angel store-owner and musician Carolyn Wallace, looking around her recently opened, 250-square-foot jewel box of a space in New Preston, Connecticut. As customers came streaming in on a perfect fall day, Wallace gave each

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Art et Industrie: Man, Meet Nature

Owner Jordan Schlanger and co-worker Caitlyn Schomaker on Jesse Reimer's "Mother-Daughter" bench Housatonic is a study in contrasts. In this Berkshire town, brick mill houses and graffitied trains long out of service nestle alongside a gushing river and hills flocked with trees. “It’s real country

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Derwin's: Still Natty After All These Years

The seeds for R. Derwin Clothier’s in Litchfield, now run by a whole brood of Derwins, were sown more than fifty years ago from far, far away: Los Angeles, where patriarch Richard Derwin worked his way up the retail ladder as a buyer for several famous, now- defunct department

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Joshua Howe Design: Machine Age Organic

Lighting and furniture designer Joshua Howe, covered neck to toe in a rubber welding suit (head protected simply in a dark blue oversized ski cap), greets me in the middle of a narrow, bumpy, tree-crowded Chatham off road. He motions me to follow him onto a rocky private road, and

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Oliphant: In Living Color

Cara Hotchkiss, jewelry designer and owner of the Litchfield store Oliphant, has always had a relentless penchant for color. “It's like a candy store. I love color, I’m not afraid of it.” With those bold, bright, blazing hues, Hotchkiss – London-born, San Francisco bred, Litchfield-based but always globe

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Vegetable Garden: The Pesto Variations—Beyond Basil

A recent trek to the compost pile forced me to reckon with the state of affairs in my vegetable garden, particularly the state of green affairs. The basil is bushy and much of it is flowering; the kale is as high as my waist and deep green. It is time

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Garden View: Sunflowers, Stalwart Sentinels of Summer

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels Local Knowledge, So Near, and A Place for Us, all set in the Rural Intelligence region. She and her husband divide their time between Manhattan and West Stockbridge, MA where she writes — and putters around in her garden. We’re pleased to

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Garden: The Carbophobe’s Answer to Zucchini Overload

At this point in the growing season, an overabundance of zucchini is practically a universal joke. In our household, we don’t complain about the ridiculously prolific cucurbita pepo overcrowding the chard and cherry tomatoes in our vegetable garden. Instead, we make zucchini pasta. Not pasta with zucchini – pasta made

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Garden View: The Fruit Tree Solution

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels Local Knowledge, So Near, and A Place for Us, all set in the Rural Intelligence region. She and her husband divide their time between Manhattan and West Stockbridge, MA where she writes — and putters around in her garden. We’re pleased to

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