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Fashion Alert: BerkChique, a Pop-Up Resale Shop Redux

Left, Bonnington in Ivan Grundahl, $350. Right, vintage Victor Costa, $200. Some of us want clothes that whisper nice things about us. And some of us want only as many of them as we need to get by. Retired attorney Vicki Bonnington, far left, comes at clothing from an entirely

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Garden View: Dapper Dahlia, the Extra Man at the Garden Party

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels “Local Knowledge,” “So Near,” and the forthcoming “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

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House Guests Part II: The Saga Continues…

Call in the experts for serious cleaning. ... and I Still Like the Miscreants.Primum non nocere. First, do no harm. My last column for Rural Intelligence, almost a year ago, was on House Guests. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then but the cyle continues. As

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Radish Seed Pods: A Spicy Secret

I readily admit that I’m not the gardener of the family; what little gardening I do is under direction from my beloved Kipp, who plans the vegetable garden, does the heavy lifting, maintains the compost piles, and tells me what to plant where, and when to harvest what. The

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Garden View: Growing Roses in the RI Region - A Thorny Affair

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels “Local Knowledge,” “So Near,” and the forthcoming “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

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Otto Leuschel's Old-Fashioned Germantown Variety Store

Some people boast of having lived in an area when it “hit," like Soho in the ’70s, or, more locally, Great Barrington, when Smithsonian named it the best small town in America. Next on the "hit" list: Germantown, if Otto Leuschel has his way; on June 28

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Garden View: Lessons From Spencertown's Garden Tour

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels “Local Knowledge,” “So Near,” and the forthcoming “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

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Garden View: Peonies, The Party Girls of Springtime

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels “Local Knowledge,” “So Near,” and the forthcoming “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

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Hillsdale General Store: A 21st Century Country Emporium

The words "general store" function like a Rorschach Test: Everyone conjures up a different image of the quintessential rural retail experience. But let's face facts: Now that places like CVS and Cumberland Farms sell everything from eggs and milk to shoe polish and work gloves, the

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Diane Love & Robert Frye's Modern Mountaintop Farmhouse

It looks more like a house of self-restraint than self-indulgence, but Diane Love designed her pared down-country retreat in southern Columbia County to be her all-purpose personal haven. Blessed with self-awareness, Love knows that her happiness depends on her ability to be many different people at the same time—painter,

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Garden View: Chive Talk

Liza Gyllenhaal is the author of the novels “Local Knowledge,” “So Near,” and the forthcoming “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

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Trade Secrets: A Lollapalooza of Antiques and Gardens

Once a year during Trade Secrets Weekend, the Litchfield Hills resemble the pages of an English gardening magazine, which is fitting since many of the pre-revolutionary towns (Cornwall, Kent, Salisbury) were settled by the British. The two-day Trade Secrets extravaganza—an antiques and rare-plant sale on Saturday, May 19, and

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