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New Marlborough's Mepal Manor Changes Identity Once Again

By Marilyn Bethany In 1906, Hildreth Kennedy Bloodgood, a banker and sportsman, built a 25-room, gabled-and-turreted stone mansion in New Marlborough, MA. Like other Berkshire “cottages" of that era, Mepal Manor was designed to lend old world gravitas to new world wealth. Here, Hildreth and his

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The Grand Treatment At The Mayflower Inn and Spa

By Don Rosendale “Ten fifty" the desk clerk says nonchalantly, announcing the tariff for a 21-hour mid-week spa package at the Mayflower Inn and Spa in Washington, CT, a five-star country-house hotel of impressive proportions and gorgeous design. By “ten fifty," he means one

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Apothecary Friendly: The (Malin + Goetz) Line of Beauty

By Dale Stewart It's hard not to be a tad smitten by Matthew Malin (left) and Andrew Goetz (right), the marvels behind the eponymous beauty line (Malin + Goetz). They are both smart, athletic, articulate, and youthful-looking, a well-matched pair who’ve been together nearly twenty years,

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Health & Wellness: Apothecary Brews Up Good Medicine in Germantown

Dana and Michael Eudy have traveled  a long way to find home. After hopping first from Texas (where they were born and raised and eventually met in Dallas) and then to Brooklyn, the couple, with their two young children in tow, has thrown down potent roots in Germantown, NY, to

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Hikes With A Purpose: Chasing Waterfalls (Picnics and Wildflowers)

Destinations that will motivate even the most huffing and puffing among us. Waterfalls Bash Bish FallsThe low-key, 0.4 mile hike into Bash Bish Falls is a lesson in the pleasures of anticipation. The tantalizing roar of the falls grows louder as you amble along the river, building to

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Have the Oil, Hold the Olay

By Sarah ToddBased on the number of articles singing the praises of edible oils these days, you might think the liquid fat industry has an excellent new publicist. Olive oil wards off heart attacks and strokes! Avocado oil lowers blood pressure in a single bound!  But many oils really do

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It Takes Two To Tango

Dance was always Jackie Wong’s destiny. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, named her after his beloved dance teacher, and she grew up devouring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies like ice cream. In the 1980s, she worked during the day as the manager of a bread and cheese shop

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Spring Cleansing

When I spotted a bluebird attempting to get a good look at itself in a parked Toyota’s rearview mirror last week, I knew that spring was finally here. It's a time of year when, much like bluebirds, people feel inspired to make sure everything looks sharp. We

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Heavenly Hell on Wheels: The Hudson Valley Horrors

Woe to the person who attends a Hudson Valley Horrors bout thinking that women's roller derby is just a bunch of babes in skates pushing each other around. Over the course of roller derby’s nearly one hundred-year history, it’s gained a reputation for blending campy

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In Amenia, A Community Grows by Leaps and Bounds

To start a dance revolution, the first thing to do is ditch the choreographer. That’s what the wildly creative Pilobolus Dance Theater did when it was founded by a ragtag group of Dartmouth students and their dance teacher in 1971. Ever since, the watchword of the troupe has been

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Snowcapades: Winter Sports

By New England standards, this winter is looking positively mild-mannered — all the more reason to get out and enjoy it! Thanks to the magic of modern snowmaking machines, skiers and snowboarders can find fresh powder at any one of six resorts in Berkshire and Litchfield counties, each of which

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At Hudson Wellness Collective, Health As Human Right

Sarah Falkner, Masha Schmidt, Caroline Ruderman; Photo credit Nicholas Kahn There's nothing clinical about walking into the Hudson Wellness Collective, a center for healing arts that opened on Hudson’s bustling Warren Street last fall. Strings of tiny white lights and a paper lamp cast a warm glow

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