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Lenox’s Arcadian Shop awaits path forward to continue its Stockbridge Bowl kayak launch program

“All [kayak rental] transactions occur at the Arcadian Shop,” Arcadian Shop co-owner Chris Calvert told The Berkshire Edge during a July 9 phone interview.

Irene Magnus, 93, formerly of Hillsdale, N.Y.

Known to many as Idy, she was an avid reader and a remarkable cryptoquip player.

Bits & Bytes: BCC dog show; Playhouse seeks directors; watercolors at Camphill Ghent; ‘RE” at Ferrin Contemporary; Crossroads gallery hop

The Ghent Playhouse is seeking proposals from directors interested in directing a musical as part of its 2016-2017 theater season.

FOODS OF LOVE: Sinfully rich chocolate cake

What really brings out the spark is dessert. Here is a recipe for a simple dessert, easily prepared, elegantly presented and certain to keep the spark of your love alive.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Cuba in Changing Times;’ Don Wynn at Neumann Fine Art; innovation prize for Behold! New Lebanon; pianist Benjamin Hochman concert

On Sunday, November 15 the Schumacher Center for a New Economics will present Cuban author Rafael Hernández for a talk entitled “Cuba in Changing Time.”

Bits & Bytes: The Great Parade; The Eight in Hillsdale; Birds of prey at Kenver; Student art at Flying Cloud; Berkshire Children & Families...

To be in the Rogue Angel Theatre parade in Great Barrington, meet at 10 a.m. at the bandstand behind Town Hall on Saturday, July 18. Bring flamboyant and wild costumes and props, and instruments.

Culinary Adventures: Double Decker Farm, founding member of GB Farmers Market

Their philosophy is to not grow more than they can sell. They scrutinize what sells, and if a crop does not make money, it’s dropped the next year. “With 2 ½ acres of growing land, everything has to work.”

Culinary Adventures: Markristo Farm, a family enterprise

Farming in Columbia County has changed remarkably in the last 25 years. When we got started, there was just Ted Dobson, Hawthorne Valley, and us. Today? Every little town has a farmers market.” -- Martin Stosiek of Markristo Farm

John James Dunn Sr., 91, of Hillsdale, New York

John was also a long-time farmer in Hillsdale, active in the Hillsdale Cadby-Shutts V.F.W., a member of the Northwestern University Midshipman’s School Association, the Alford Land Trust, a Eucharistic Minister at Saint Peter’s Church in Great Barrington, a member of the Fairview Hospital Fundraising committee, and served on the Hillsdale Zoning Committee and Planning Board.
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