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Antiques: New in Hudson, Naga North

Over the years we’ve seen Hudson offer a mini lesson in globalization: There are dealers who concentrate in the arts and wares of all four corners of the earth, but until now there was no one specializing in the arts of Japan. That’s changed…. Jim Marinaccio and his

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Gardening: Open Days Are Here Again

Gardening: Open Days Are Here Again

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Trade Secrets Weekend: Plants, Antiques & Garden Tours

Trade Secrets is northwestern Connecticut's grandest garden party of the year. What started nine years ago at Bunny Williams's Falls Village house as a community rare-plant-and-antique sale for charity has morphed into a two-day, horticultural carnival—our region's unofficial kick-off to the planting season.

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Wishing Won't Do it, Saving and Slaving Will

Some would argue that the ramshackle property you see at left is my house.  This is a scurrilous contention I would hotly deny. What I see when I look at my house is not what you see, or anyone else, for that matter.  When I look, it is already painted

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Susan Silver Antiques: A Survivor of the Mid-Century Storm

Reason suggests that the antiques business should be immune to the vicissitudes of time; but, in fact, the furnishings of the past are just as susceptible to the whims of fashion as any other aesthetic choice.  Twenty-seven years ago, in 1982, when Susan Silver (left), of the eponymous antiques shop

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Michael Devine: Designer without Borders

Michael Devine is the Scarlet Pimpernel of the interior design world. He's here: His headquarters, if a moving target can be said to have a home base, is an enchanting little retail shop (shown here) in enchanting, little Kinderhook, NY, where he sells his own fabrics and stylish

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Rural Rules of Life: Twenty Questions for "FLIP! For Decorating" Author Elizabeth Mayhew

Since she was a teenager, Elizabeth Mayhew, who hails from Louisville, KY, has been spending time in Millbrook, NY, where she came for New Year's Eve in 1984 to visit her Middlesex School classmate and future husband, Timothy, whom she married in 1993 when they were both 24.

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Sandy Klempner Takes the Fifth with Style

For some people, an interesting shop can be like the bar in Cheers, a place worthy of regular visits, where comfort and stimulation in equal measure are guaranteed, and where at least somebody knows your name. Sandy Klempler Antiques and Interiors in Canaan, NY, just west of the Massachusetts border,

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Passages: Our Blogger Ties the Knot

It's not just Connecticut that's full of surprises. This just in from faithful correspondent Carey Maloney. Connecticut Welcomes You!   If only you knew how long and how relentlessly we have made fun of Connecticut—the proverbial “state of mind”…Particularly Greenwich. … Precious and preppy.  The Upper

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Au Revoir Basic French

The economy is really only part of it.  There is another, even more compelling reason, if truth be told.  But if it makes you feel better to blame the economy, welcome aboard.  Basic French, the store specializing in French products for "la vie quotidienne"  (everyday life) is shuttering

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Let Us Now Praise Rhinebeck's 5 & 10 Cent Store: A.L. Stickle

The village of Rhinebeck is surrounded by landmarks like Wilderstein and Montgomery Place,  but the only truly living, breathing historic site is the A.L. Stickle variety store on East Market Street.  Stickle's is the last of a breed. It's the quintessential small town  5 &

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Rural Rules of Life: Twenty Questions for Margaret Roach

A year ago, when Rural Intelligence was brand new, so was A Way To Garden.com, the garden blog produced by Margaret Roach from her home in Copake Falls, NY.  Though Margaret had been spending weekends toiling in her Columbia County garden for more than twenty years, she had only

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