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The 63rd Annual Litchfield Open House Day

The collection of antique houses that line Litchfield's North and South Streets are so impressively well-kept that you cannot help but wonder whether they're historic homes or merely facades constructed for a movie set. They are very real indeed, and this weekend you have an opportunity

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Lenox Garden Club's 20th Annual House & Garden Tour

The Lenox Garden Club, which has been been around for 99 years, is more than a group of ladies who like to grow flowers and wear big straw hats as they troop around one another's backyards. It's a philanthropic organization that supports all sorts of local

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Spencertown Academy's Hidden Gardens Tour

Some garden tours are strictly fantasy trips; others are more instructive.   "People need to bring a pad and a pencil and a camera to this tour, because there are so many good ideas," says Madaline Sparks, contributing gardening editor at Real Simple magazine. "There's a

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The Berkshires' First Lady of Fashion: Mikki Brown

If you see a woman wearing a dress this summer that is so exceptionally pretty, quirky or arresting that you have to stop and ask her, "Where'd you get that?" the answer will more than likely be "The Browns."  Located on Water Street in

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The Wandering Eye: Tivoli, (Mostly) The Madalin

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). OK, we are suckers for proximity when it comes to our restaurants and bars.  If it is close, it doesn’t need to be that good. We’ll be loyal supporters

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A Tour of Private Gardens Benefits Cornwall Library

Having one's garden chosen for a charity tour must be, for the gardener, what a ticker tape parade is for a triumphant general.  Glory reigns, all bloodshed—and with gardens as with war, there is always bloodshed; failsafe strategies that nonetheless go awry—momentarily forgotten.  This Saturday, June

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Matthew White's La Dolce Vita in Columbia County

You don't normally hear people talk about Hillsdale, NY, and Venice, Italy, in the same breath, but Matthew White has never been interested in what's normal.  An interior designer whose whose work is classical, eclectic, and widely published ( Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home)

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The Woman Behind Farm Girl Farm

When you meet Laura Meister you begin to understand how Farm Girl Farm got its name. On a recent Monday morning, the 42-year-old filmmaker turned farmer is working in a field of lettuces dressed in a very girly batik skirt and a frilly fuscia camisole.  As a solo farmer who

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dbO Home's Pop-up Shop Opens in Great Barrington

Since giving up her high-powered marketing job at Elektra Records in New York City in 2006, Dana Brandwein (left with her husband, Daniel Oates) has been making pottery in her barn in Sharon, CT.  Her porcelain and stoneware is found on the tables at the highly regarded restaurant Blue Hill

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Trade Secrets: The Rare Plant & Antiques Fair Turns 10

Trade Secrets is not such a secret anymore. Like a well-tended garden, the rare plant and garden antiques sale grows lusher and more interesting every year, raising ever more money for Women's Support Services, the not-for-profit agency that provides aid to victims of domestic violence in northwestern Connecticut

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Just in Time for Spring, the New, Improved Ward's Nursery

There's always good reason to stop by Ward's Nursery in Great Barrington, perhaps the largest and most ambitious gardener's resource in our district, especially on a Saturday in springtime when the chances of bumping into the nursery's affable founder Don Ward, Jr.

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Garden Sheds: Luxuriating in Nature

Say, "garden shed," and what leaps to this earthbound mind is a humble structure with plenty of hooks and bins to store the arsenal it takes to bend nature to (wo)man's will.  Apparently, that is not at all what Berkshire Botanical Garden trustee Matt Larkin

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