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Welcome to Real Estate Friday!

Here’s what we have for you this week in The Edge Real Estate section: Property of the Week – Lori Rose of Stone House Properties offers a spacious modernist 4 BR/3 bath escape on 4.8 wooded acres, a seasonal creek, and a footbridge to a bonus cabin in the woods. Transformations – Architect Pamela Sandler opens up a house on Onota Lake to light, movement, and, most importantly, to the lake itself. Weekly real estate transactions for Berkshire County, Northern Litchfield County and Columbia County. Market Perspective – In...

LEONARD QUART: Embracing a city in purgatory

However, though I am not an optimist by nature, I know once the plague ceases, life in the city will be irreparably changed.

Best-selling author Sue Miller, novelist Patricia Park, and literary magazine editor Dayna Tortorici are the 2020 Edith Wharton Writers-in-Residence

While the extended conversation, “Writers in the House,” has been cancelled, settle in here for an insightful look at how contemporary writers are looking at and responding to Edith Wharton’s legacy. 

Alan Chartock: When will Cuomo run for president?

Of course, based on the trouble that his assistants, now in jail, got into, Andrew will have to choose very, very carefully because running for governor and president are two very different propositions.

Marlayne Weinberg, 85, of Lenox

She was actively involved in the Pittsfield/Lenox community, volunteering at Conte Elementary School and participating in activities at the Pittsfield Senior center and Lenox community center.

Alan Chartock: Politicians out in the cold

Even if the weather doesn’t live up to the advance hype, it is still possible for the politicians to be held responsible. I mean, someone has to take the blame, right?

Thomas DeVoti, 73, of South Egremont

Known as the “telephone dude in the gold Scion,” Tom worked for various phone companies throughout New York and Massachusetts until the late 1990s, when he ventured out on his own installing telephone systems.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘House of Trump, House of Putin,’ the plot to put a Russian operative in the White House

Unger makes several startling claims: Trump was but one of dozens of U.S. politicians and businesspeople targeted over more than 20 years who became indebted to Russia.

Abbott Combes III, 98, of Northfield, Vermont, formerly of Pittsfield

He was also known for his gentlemanly manners, proper decorum, sense of humor, strong opinions, fondness of Cuba Libres and impromptu recitations of Robert Service ballads.

A tennis neophyte’s first visit to the US Open: ‘No time to pee’

It’s happened — I’ve come to love the US Open. Where else can you watch endless games played at the highest levels all day long? The Super Bowl? The World Series? Phooey.

NYCFD Firefighter Robert William Alexander, 43, Mt. Everett graduate, victim of rescue operations at World Trade Center

At home and on his morning off on September 11th 2001 he reported to his precinct in East Harlem  and then onto the World Trade Center. From September 11th, 2001 until January of 2002 he worked at the World Trade Center site.

Raymond W. Alexander, 76, of South Egremont, retired New York City firefighter, victim of World Trade Center-linked cancer

During his career he was cited numerous times for conspicuous duties and once for personal bravery in which he slid on a life-saving rope down the rear of a burning tenement to search for trapped occupants.

REVIEW: Richard Nonas’ ‘The Man in Empty Space’ at MASS MoCA

Like all of the very best art that we can encounter however, Richard Nonas’ sculpture permanently shifts our perception of the world around us.

Gladys Carbo Flower, 80, of Stockbridge, Cuban / American singer and composer

She became a self-made business woman and in the 1970’s purchased the front of the 1884 building on Main Street, Stockbridge, where she opened “Woffin’s Corner,” her very own, singularly unique and first-of-its-kind in the Berkshire’s, European toy shop.

The School: A New York art dealer’s dream gallery — in Kinderhook

If you have not visited Jack Shainman's gallery, The School in Kinderhook, New York, you should. A genuine pleasure awaits you. The School has, without exaggeration, one of the most beautiful gallery spaces anywhere in the country. The School, like all of Shainman’s projects, has a specific focus: “To exhibit, represent and champion artists from around the world, in particular artists from Africa, East Asia, and North America.”

My first job: Writing in cubicle four

Wherein our theater reviewer, J. Peter Bergman, reveals how his writing career began, and how that beginning quickly ended.
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