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Garden View: Are Green Thumbs Inherited?

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

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Privet House Hits a Bullseye with Pop-Up Shops at Target

Do you remember the movie The Miracle on 34th Street when Macy's Santa Claus, who believed he was the real Kris Kringle, advised the department store's customers to shop at Gimbel's for certain items? In the same counterintuitive spirit,  Rural Intelligence is encouraging you

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The Wandering Eye: House Guests

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). Okay.  Hermes had (another) good idea..  A blog on House Guests.  Avoiding all the clichés, comparisons to old fish, etc. All it takes is a few moments searching the Interweb to

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McTeigue & McClelland Are in the Business of Enchantment

For nearly a century following its founding in 1895, McTeigue & Co. was one of the most respected hallmarks in the fine jewelry trade, selling only to elite retailers such as Tiffany & Co., which in 1990 acquired and absorbed the family-owned business into its own. Yet as he was

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Hillsdale Tour of 19th-Century Rural Houses

This Saturday, the Hillsdale Preservation Committee will sponsor a pedestrian-friendly tour of historic houses. Some of the houses on the tour originally had been home to farmers, others to farmworkers.  But, though all have grown and changed over the years, their 19th-century character has been retained and all, miraculously, still

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LOCAL's Economy Buoyed By Chocolate Trickle Down

"We are doing very well," says Michele O'Hana, via a crackling Skype connection from her childhood home in West Cork, Ireland, where, as usual, she is spending the summer with her family. "Repeat that please?," I shout, certain I must have heard wrong.  In

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The Hooper Garden: A Passion That's Bigger than Both of Them

Sophisticated gardeners tend to agree that turning the land surrounding a house into a series of garden "rooms" is a great way to bring nature to heel.  This handy design device transforms negative space (ill-defined areas you may gaze across or wander through on occasion) into positive ones

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Style Shopping: All About Weave

by Scott Baldinger One of the great things about Hudson, New York, is that you can literally fall out of bed (or your car, if you don’t live or weekend here) and into a new and wondrous world of the decorative arts. Sometimes you may even find worlds within

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Style Shopping: Carolyne Roehm's Big DeClutter

We don't normally alert readers to tag sales, as, without actually vetting the merch in advance (impractical), it's impossible to tell which ones are worthwhile.  But earlier this week, when style guru Carolyne Roehm, author of countless books, including At Home with Carolyne Roehm, sent us

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Gardens: A Gertrude Jekyll Legacy

by Betsy Miller Glebe House is an historic landmark in Woodbury, CT, “birthplace” of the Episcopal Church in the United States.  Meticulously restored to its 1750 heyday, it is also one of the first historic houses ever opened to the public as a museum. But, for gardeners, all that pales

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Style Shopping: At 3FortySeven Charisma Reigns

The building started life as an art deco service station.  He started out as a Harvard-trained architect.  Together, what they are in the process of becoming—3FortySeven is still very much a work in progress—is already far more exciting than either of those bio snippets would suggest. Not that

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Trade Secrets: The Garden Season's Big Kickoff May 14 & 15

One of the reasons why Trade Secrets, the massive rare plant and garden antiques sale on May 14, is such an enchanting event is its setting: Lion Rock Farm, a 600 acre property on the Salisbury/Sharon, CT, border with breathtaking views of rolling hills and the Taconic range. Owner

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