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Holiday Celebrations and Shopping
Holiday spirit is highly infectious, but one trip to any mall will guarantee immunity well past New Year's Eve. Our small town holiday festivals, on the other hand, are veritable petri dishes of the stuff. Attend any or several of the many scattered throughout our region and you may find holly spontaneously sprouting in your heart.
Now - December 31
Home for the Holidays at Ventfort Hall
The Lenox mansion, built in 1893, is decorated for the holidays and offers fun for both children and adults through to New Year's Eve, including a dramatic reading of The Curious Abduction of Mona Lisa, Cinderella marionette shows with puppeteer Carl Sprague, and Christmas tea with an Edwardian lady.
Friday, December 13 - Sunday, December 15
Crispina's Holiday Shindy
Participants gather from near and far to sell truly notable handmade items ranging from decorative and utilitarian craft, to specialty food and body products. Everything is made by the sellers. Live minstrel-style music and healthful, delicious food for on-site lunching round out the experience staged in the former RC church turned artspace located at 40 Melville St., right in the heart of Pittsfield's UpStreet Cultural District.
Saturday, December 14
Festival of Trees Family Day
Bring the family to the Berkshire Museum and enjoy the sounds, sights, and tastes of the holiday season with a full day of fun. View the decorated trees, encounter amazing animals with Richard Roth of Creature Teachers, decorate cookies, and enjoy the voices of the Blafield Children's Chorus and Berkshire Singers performing holiday favorites.
Now - December 31
Staatsburgh Gilded Age Christmas
No need to say "bah humbug" at Staatsburgh State Historic Site, with a full month of lavish holiday decorations and special programs. A Gilded Age Christmas features the popular Holiday Whodunit, where children are invited to solve a "history mystery" which includes a search for the miniature houses of Mistletoe Mouse tucked into various rooms in the mansion, and a chance to win a special prize. The gift shop also will be open, with an array of jewelry, books, scarves, keepsakes, and gifts.
Saturday, December 14 & Sunday, December 15, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
EX-MAS Winter Market
Hudson River Exchange brings you a market filled with gifts made and collected by regional artisans and vendors. Enjoy live music and snacks while shopping the 30+ vendors inside a heated tent—lounge on hay bales, sip on hot cider, maybe even hula-hoop—at 704 Columbia Street (7th Street Park, one block from Warren Street).
Saturday, December 14 & Sunday, December 15
Clermont State Historic Site
Come see Clermont all dressed up for the holidays, with a weekend of family-themed events. The historic site hosts children's stories underneath the Christmas tree, an open house, a holiday party, and candlelight tours.
Saturday, December 14 @ 5 p.m.
Valatie Winterwalk
This celebration promises something for everyone; shop at the stores, sample the food, and enjoy entertainment such as caroling and hay rides. The big highlight of the evening is the parade down Main Street featuring local celebrities and, of course, Santa.
Saturday, December 21, 3 - 5 p.m.
Kwanzaa Umoja Celebration
Hudson Opera House hosts a celebration with crafts for children and performances featuring dancers from their workshops with Anthony Molina and Kuumba Dance & Drum programs. A candle lighting ceremony and the sharing of the Nguzo Saba (the seven principles of Kwanzaa) by community members will be followed by "Karamu" supper and the giving of Zawadi (gifts for children).
Now - December 29
Wilderstein Historic Site
Florists and designers have transformed the riverfront mansion into a magical holiday wonderland. Come see the result for yourself by taking a Holiday House Tour (tours run every weekend), or enjoy fine tea, finger sandwiches, and homemade cakes and cookies at a Yuletide Tea on December 14.
Saturday, December 14, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
WORK:SHOP—a Curated Holiday Artisan Sale
Wickham Solid Wood Studio in Beacon hosts a sale featuring high-quality small goods produced by 15 Hudson Valley-based businesses. This is a great chance to acquire affordable pieces from some extraordinary makers. Goods include art prints, stoneware, jewelry, ceramics, wood pieces, glassware, and other fine handiwork.
Saturday, December 14, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Free admission to the museum in Hyde Park, where there will be holiday decorations, refreshments, and special activities all day, including the annual Children's Reading Festival beginning at Noon in the Henry A. Wallace Center. Children's book authors, including Hudson Valley author and illustrator Iza Trapani, will read from and sign copies of their books. In addition, there will be free photos with Santa from 1-3 p.m., and children can make holiday cards for sailors on the USS FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT beginning at Noon.
Friday, December 13, 6 p.m.
Holiday in the Depot
Washington Depot's town-wide celebration features a tree-lighting ceremony, caroling, wagon rides, and other fun. This is a great time to buy local, as businesses will be open late and offering sales, specials, and giveaways. Be sure to stop in at The Hickory Stick Bookshop and visit with author Wendell Minor, and the National Iron Bank for cookie decorating and hot chocolate.
Saturday, December 14, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Torrington Makers Market
The Market is a curated retail show featuring the freshest artisans from CT, NY, MA, and RI who will proffer their handmade toys, jewelry, fine art, quilts, clothing, repurposed antiques, and more (a purse from The Love, Mich Collection shown above). This event takes place inside several different spaces along Main Street and Water Street in downtown Torrington.
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Catching The Holiday Spirit: Celebrations and Shopping
Holiday spirit is highly infectious, but one trip to any mall will guarantee immunity well past New Year's Eve. Our small town holiday festivals, on the other hand, are veritable petri dishes of the stuff. Attend any or several of the many scattered throughout our region this weekend through next, and you may find holly spontaneously sprouting in your heart.
©Norman Rockwell Museum
Friday, December 6 - Sunday, December 8
Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas
Dreaming of an idyllic New England Christmas? The Stockbridge Chamber of Commerce offers one that's straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Literally. Every year the organizers have gone to great pains to create a tableau vivant of Norman Rockwell's iconic painting, Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas (above)—same decorations, same vintage cars, the only difference in the recreation is that the Red Lion Inn is all lit up; when Rockwell did his study, it was closed for the winter.
Friday, December 6 - Sunday, December 8
Berkshire Botanical Garden Holiday Marketplace
The Marketplace kicks off on December 6 with a cocktail party from 5-8 p.m., then continues through the weekend. Each year, the BBG's exhibit hall turns into a twinkling market featuring a legendary Gallery of Wreaths and other seasonal decorations, all available for purchase.
Saturday, December 7, 3 - 7:30 p.m.
Great Barrington Holiday Stroll
Welcome in the holiday season with the 5th annual Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce's Holiday Stroll, the chamber's largest community event, often attracting more than 3,000 attendees. This year features 50 food and product vendors, crafts, music, caroling, face painting, live window displays, a character parade, Light the Night Tree Walk, Letters to Santa, hayrides, and gifts to the kids from Santa Claus.
Saturday, December 7, 3 - 6 p.m.
Williamstown Holiday Walk
Enjoy the sights and sounds of the holiday season as Williamstown decks the halls for the 30th year. Don't miss the adorable "reindog" parade, visit with Santa, enjoy the tastes of the Holiday bake-off, attend a free screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas at Images Cinema, and much, much more.
Saturday & Sunday, December 7 & 8, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Alchemy Initiative's 5th Annual Handmade Holiday Festival
This homegrown Pittsfield "to-do" features artisan-made gifts, such as toys, ornaments, silk-screened apparel, kitchen utensils, jewelry, pottery, hand-printed calendars, leather bags, and accessories. There also will be all sorts of delicious holiday foods either to eat there or take home, including cookies and sweets, plus trees, wreaths, gift wrapping done on premises, live music, mulled cider and wine, and hearty finger fare. Did we forget anything?
Saturday, December 7, 12-6 p.m. & Sunday, December 8, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Café Chic: Pop-Up Boutique for Ladies
The boutique, at Berkshire Functional Fitness (325 Stockbridge Rd., Great Barrington), is a benefit for the Berkshire Humane Society and Purradise, and will sell pre-owned and new classy clothing and accessories at affordable prices. Designers include Diane Von Furstenberg, Jimmy Choo, Chanel, Tahari and Tory Burch, among others. Early Bird Shopping ($10 fee) is December 7 from 10 a.m. - noon.
Friday, December 13 - Sunday, December 15
Crispina's Holiday Shindy
Participants gather from near and far to sell truly notable handmade items ranging from decorative and utilitarian craft, to specialty food and body products. Everything is made by the sellers. Live minstrel-style music and healthful, delicious food for on-site lunching round out the experience staged in the former RC church turned artspace located at 40 Melville St., right in the heart of Pittsfield's UpStreet Cultural District.
Now - December 31
Staatsburgh Gilded Age Christmas
No need to say "bah humbug" at Staatsburgh State Historic Site, with a full month of lavish holiday decorations and special programs. A Gilded Age Christmas features the popular Holiday Whodunit, where children are invited to solve a "history mystery" which includes a search for the miniature houses of Mistletoe Mouse tucked into various rooms in the mansion, and a chance to win a special prize. The gift shop also will be open, with an array of jewelry, books, scarves, keepsakes, and gifts.
December 6 - 8
28th Annual Gallery of Wreaths
Vanderpoel House hosts this yearly Columbia County Historical Society fundraiser and silent auction. The wreaths, both live and artificial, classic and unusual, are decorated and donated by community members and groups. An opening reception will be held Friday, face painting for children will be part of the festivities on Saturday, and Santa arrives on Sunday.
Saturday, December 7, 5 - 8 p.m.
Hudson's Winter Walk
The words "cheerful" and "hip" seldom figure in the same sentence, much less one that's about the holidays. Yet, somehow, Hudson's Winter Walk is both. Yes, there is a Santa parade, street musicians, fireworks, and people in costume, but the heart of the matter lies in the shops and galleries, which, on a cold winter night, turn into warm and welcoming havens. All those beautiful storefronts with all those lovely things in them barely need a wreath on the door to look Dickensian. And their proprietors require no false bonhomie—"showmanship" is not something these seasoned retailers drag out of the attic once a year and dust off. It's what they do every day.
Saturday, December 7 & Sunday, December 8; and Saturday, December 14 & Sunday, December 15
Clermont State Historic Site
Come see Clermont all dressed up for the holidays, with two weekends of family-themed events. The historic site hosts children's stories underneath the Christmas tree. The following weekend brings even more holiday joy for families, with an open house, a holiday party, and candlelight tours.
Saturday, December 7, 12 - 4 p.m.
The Winter Celebration at Lindenwald
Enjoy a day of special tours at President Martin Van Buren's mansion, decorated for the season by the Garden Club of Kinderhook. Tours take place every half hour, and reservations are required.
Sunday, December 8, 12 - 5:30 p.m.
Winter Walk in the Wilderness
The historic Hamlet of Copake Falls features a holiday bazaar, Camphill Village Ensemble festival concert, a local artists exhibition, super sales, stocking gifts, cookies, and Santa Claus!
Saturday, December 14 @ 5 p.m.
Valatie Winterwalk
This celebration promises something for everyone; shop at the stores, sample the food, and enjoy entertainment such as caroling and hay rides. The big highlight of the evening is the parade down Main Street featuring local celebrities and, of course, Santa.
Saturday, December 21, 3 - 5 p.m.
Kwanzaa Umoja Celebration
Hudson Opera House hosts a celebration with crafts for children and performances featuring dancers from their workshops with Anthony Molina and Kuumba Dance & Drum programs. A candle lighting ceremony and the sharing of the Nguzo Saba (the seven principles of Kwanzaa) by community members will be followed by "Karamu" supper and the giving of Zawadi (gifts for children).
Now - December 29
Wilderstein Historic Site
Florists and designers have transformed the riverfront mansion into a magical holiday wonderland. Come see the result for yourself by taking a Holiday House Tour (tours run every weekend), or enjoy fine tea, finger sandwiches, and homemade cakes and cookies at a Yuletide Tea on December 14.
Saturday, December 7, 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
The Dutch-based, Rhinebeck-embellished holiday features a day-long, town-wide celebration of performance and open houses with live music, dancing, theater, puppet shows, and storytelling followed, at dusk, by a starlight parade. Plus food and drink and a late-night party for adults.
Saturday, December 7 & Sunday, December 8, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Annual Monastery Christmas Craft Fair
Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery's yearly fair in Lagrangeville features hand-crafted creches, organic artisanal vinegars, tapenades, sauces, and soups, along with watercolor paintings by local artists, books, Christmas cards, and more.
Saturday, December 14, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
WORK:SHOP—a Curated Holiday Artisan Sale
Wickham Solid Wood Studio in Beacon hosts a sale featuring high-quality small goods produced by 15 Hudson Valley-based businesses. This is a great chance to acquire affordable pieces from some extraordinary makers. Goods include art prints, stoneware, jewelry, ceramics, wood pieces, glassware, and other fine handiwork.
Saturday, December 7, 3 - 6 p.m.
New Preston Winter Stroll
The entire walkable Village of New Preston comes alive for the holidays with festive lights, creative window displays, drinks and treats, and live music from The Social Gents Club. The fifth annual Winter Stroll also gives you the jump on holiday shopping with antiques, clothing, home design, and book stores all in one location.
Saturday, December 7, 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Holiday Historic House Tour
The Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society sponsors a tour of five decorated historic buildings, including Bunny Williams and John Rosselli's beautifully restored 1840 barn, The Samuel Robbins House, and others. Kickoff is at 10:30 a.m. at P.D. Walsh's Country Store on Main Street. Self-guided tours begin at 11 a.m.
Friday, December 13, 6 p.m.
Holiday in the Depot
Washington Depot's town-wide celebration features a tree-lighting ceremony, caroling, wagon rides, and other fun. This is a great time to buy local, as businesses will be open late and offering sales, specials, and giveaways. Be sure to stop in at The Hickory Stick Bookshop and visit with author Wendell Minor, and the National Iron Bank for cookie decorating and hot chocolate.
Saturday, December 14, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Torrington Makers Market
The Market is a curated retail show featuring the freshest artisans from CT, NY, MA, and RI who will proffer their handmade toys (Fairweather Friends plushies pictured above), jewelry, fine art, quilts, clothing, repurposed antiques, and more. This event takes place inside several different spaces along Main Street and Water Street in downtown Torrington.
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Posted by Rachel Louchen on 12/03/13 at 01:54 PM • Permalink
Autumn Walks With A Purpose: Heritage Walks Weekends
By Shawn Hartley Hancock
What could be better than a leisurely walk on a crisp autumn day? Not much. Unless it's dozens of walks, each with a different flavor and distinct point of view, led by an expert. That's what Housatonic Heritage has planned for its impressive 12th annual Heritage Walks Weekends, which kick off this Saturday and Sunday, September 21 and 22. The walks weekend will be repeated on October 5 and 6 (when there's likely to be more colorful foliage).
The walks, impressive for their number (60 in all) and their diversity, are free guided tours held throughout Berkshire and Litchfield Counties at historic estate gardens, in notable town districts, along nature and hiking trails, and even at industrial-site ruins, all sponsored by Housatonic Heritage, a local nonprofit with a goal to preserve and celebrate the region's heritage. (It's also the nonprofit officially designated by the National Park Service to administer the region as a National Heritage Area.)
"The communities along the Housatonic River have a shared history of pioneering industries, including iron, paper, and electrical generation," says Housatonic Heritage Executive Director Dan Bolognani. "They've also welcomed writers and artists, and are committed to preserving the scenic landscape and natural resources that comprise this special area," he says.
This weekend in particular, Housatonic Heritage presents the walks in collaboration with The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a national group dedicated to increasing the public's awareness and understanding of its cultural landscapes, especially those they may pass every day, as part of "What's Out There Weekend in The Berkshires."
If this is all sounding like a spoonful of medicine masquerading as recreation, never fear. TCLF brings golf into the mix (and what is golf if not, as Winston Churchill described, "a good walk spoiled?"), making tee times available at the Berkshire Hills Country Club, the Country Club of Pittsfield, Cranwell, Greenock Country Club, Stockbridge Golf Club, and Wahconah Country Club. TCLF is also the chief host of a party at Shakespeare & Company on Friday, Sept. 20, to kick off the weekend of walks, beginning with a backstage tour at 5 p.m.
The walks themselves, which start on Saturday morning, are designed to appeal to the widest possible audience. "Nature lovers, history enthusiasts, and even those with different levels of physical ability can enjoy them," Bolognani says. "Some of the walks are hikes, which are pretty strenuous, while others are wheelchair accessible." To that end, many aren't actually walks at all. All "events," whether it's a canoe trip, mountain hike, or bike ride, are what Bolognani calls, "Gee Whiz Qualified," meaning folks come away impressed, energized, and educated about an aspect of their community they didn't know about before.
"We have historians, educators, authors, environmentalists, and other experts as guides for the walks," Bolognani says, which include interpretive visits to significant sites along the African American Heritage Trail, as well as an amble through a Native American village in Washington, CT, to the site of a former Algonkian village and discussion of the Pootatuck people.
Participants can join Michael White in a bee-hunt at the Bidwell House Museum to learn how farmers in centuries past searched for and captured honey bees, or bike 14 miles (about 2 hours) with guide Dan McGuiness along the Housatonic River from Falls Village to West Cornwall and back. (Don't worry, it's mostly flat and the roads are lightly traveled).
The less outdoorsy can take "backstage" tours of The Colonial Theatre and Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Chesterwood in Stockbridge, and Tanglewood. History buffs can explore the historic hamlets of Cornwall Village, Stockbridge, West Stockbridge, and Lee in tours that illuminate little-known aspects of their pasts. (Hancock Shaker Village at right.) Local historian Bernard Drew will guide visitors to the dark side of Monument Mountain in a 2-1/2-hour hike, while naturalists can learn about the return of the American Chestnut tree through a preserve in Falls Village or join Mass DCR expert Alec Gillman as he puts Bascom Lodge and Mount Greylock into historical context.
According to Rachel Fletcher, a conservationist whose commitment to cleaning up the Housatonic River goes back decades, "We are in a unique position to show the public how central the river is to our community." Fletcher will lead sessions at Great Barrington's two Riverwalk parks on Saturday. "It's the only reclaimed landscape among all the walks," she says, "and allows us to tell two different and distinct stories."
Along the upstream area, inventor and entrepreneur William Stanley developed alternating current, forever imprinting the river as significant as an industrial site. Downstream, the W.E.B. Du Bois Park, just a few feet from the abolitionist's birthplace, reminds visitors of the region's cultural diversity. According to Fletcher, Du Bois "writes about being 'born by a golden river' and was a fierce and longtime river advocate who urged its care and clean-up throughout his lifetime, well into the 1930s."
Du Bois would be happy to know that, in fact, the river was the object of a voluntary effort that removed 400 tons of debris from its shores and its bed over the last 25 years. Today, the half-mile trail through downtown Great Barrington respects nature and reveals the river's beauty. Other walks that explore the Housatonic will be held at the mile-long Mary Flynn Trail in Stockbridge, and the three-mile-long Old Mill Trail in Dalton.
The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, the local management entity that has partnered with the National Park Service to help educate the public about the Heritage Area, runs from Kent, CT to Lanesborough, MA, and encompasses 29 towns and cities through the hilly terrain of western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut.
Many of the walks require pre-registration. For more information, a schedule and description, visit www.heritage-hikes.org.
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Posted by Scott Baldinger on 09/16/13 at 10:09 AM • Permalink
Lime Rock Limelight: Litchfield's Historic Race Car Parade
By Penny Stirling Michels
"Start your engines!" A colorful caravan of privately owned and lovingly maintained vintage race cars takes to the back roads of Litchfield County, Thursday, August 29, for Lime Rock's Historic Festival, a humming herald to the beginning of Labor Day Weekend. The line-up begins at 4 p.m. at Lime Rock Park, where an estimated 150 top racing and sports cars from Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and the US will rumble to life and then strut their stuff along a fifteen-mile parade route through the Litchfield Hills, ending in a Street Festival on the green in Falls Village.
Parade fanciers from Lime Rock Park and the Falls Village Inn are encouraging residents and visitors to set up lawn chairs and picnic blankets along the route, while business owners have agreed to make their sidewalks inviting for the audience. The Street Festival at the parade's end in Falls Village gives everyone the opportunity to meet the drivers and see the cars up close. There will be a splendid array of food vendors to keep folks munching while the fabulous Wanda Houston sings her heart out as only Wanda can to the music of the HBH Trio.
This is only the third Annual Vintage Race Car Parade in local history. It began as brainchild of Skip Barber, owner and CEO of Lime Rock Park. Barber takes enormous delight in the annual Historic Festival Weekend celebrated at the track every Labor Day weekend since 1983. He particularly enjoys the reactions from fans that have grown up with these iconic cars in the 1930's, 40's and 50's.
In 2011, Barber turned to his friend and fellow race car aficionado, Don Breslauer, and suggested they launch a Thursday kick-off for the Historic Weekend with a parade through Lime Rock's surrounding towns. He was particularly keen for the parade to include a grand tour of the main circle at Noble Horizons. If those early race car fans could no longer travel to the cars, then the cars would travel to those early fans.
The first year's parade focused primarily on vintage British models, many of them stylish MG racers, from the 1920's onward. In 2012, the variety and number of cars participating grew to over 100 and the number of enthusiastic fans along the parade route swelled. The folks at Noble Horizons held lawn parties to greet the arrival of these snazzy dames of the vintage racing world.
Don Breslauer has managed all the behind the scenes details necessary to make the parade work since its inception. He is a Design Engineer who has been working with race cars since 1962. He owns and runs a vintage auto restoration shop in Salisbury, CT. His own magnificent Triumph TR3 is a source of great pride, but he won't be driving it in the parade. Breslauer drives the Pace Car and leads the parade so he can double check to see that every inch of the route has been properly prepared for the occasion.
"Not often can you find vintage car owners driving unregistered restorations, as well as vintage and historic racing cars, on roads like these. Some of these cars aren't 'road worthy,' and special arrangements must be made all along the parade route. This is a tightly coordinated event," Breslauer explained. "It requires any number of motor vehicle permits, as well as agreements from the constables, police, and fire departments in the participating towns. Traffic must be stopped at the main intersections for about 20 minutes in order for the parade to advance as one group."
A whole generation of fans who grew up with the pioneers of the racing world comes to Lime Rock Park every year at this time. Lime Rock's history mirrors the history of sports car racing itself. In its 55-year existence, almost all of the sport's great drivers have raced here: Andretti, Moss, Gurney, Posey, Rodriguez, Hobbs, Hill, Donohue, Ward, Fitch… the list is astonishing.
Any modern-day car buff can, for free, take his or her beloved model to this very same track to participate in the Annual Vintage Race Car Parade. To qualify, cars must date from 1965 or before and exhibit top-quality restoration and maintenance. They needn't be racing models and, in fact, many drivers bring their vintage sports cars. Participants begin to line up on the track at Lime Rock Park on Thursday afternoon, August 29, at 3:15 p.m. Participation, as well as simply watching along the circuitous parade route, is free.
Lime Rock's Historic Festival: Third Annual Vintage Race Car Parade
The route is as follows: Cars leave Lime Rock Park on Rt. 112 West towards the Hotchkiss School. They turn right onto Rt. 41 North at the 4-way stop. They turn right again onto Rt. 41N/44E at the flashing light in Lakeville. They drive through Salisbury to left on Cobble Road to Noble Horizons. They turn right out of Noble and left onto Rt. 41 South, through Salisbury westbound to left onto Salmon Kill Road to Rt. 112, then left onto Rt. 7 North, and left again on Rt. 126 to Falls Village Center.
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Posted by Scott Baldinger on 08/19/13 at 10:39 AM • Permalink
Hudson's Oliver Bronson House: History in Brackets
By Shawn Hartley Hancock
Among the Hudson Valley's many historic homes is one that's still a well-kept secret, mostly because of its location on the grounds of the Hudson Correctional Facility, an impediment that adds an obstacle for visitors sensitive to strip searches. (We're kidding about the strip search, but prisons and historic mansions make unlikely bedfellows.)
The Plumb-Bronson House (also known as The Oliver Bronson House) is a rare example of Alexander Jackson Davis's Picturesque Bracketed style of architecture, which became the national standard in the 1840s and 1850s. Sitting high above the river on the outskirts of Hudson, and now at an optimistic stage in its long restoration, the Oliver Bronson House will be open to the public for guided tours this weekend and next.
Initially built as an elegant Federal-style residence by Hudson merchant Samuel Plumb more than 200 years ago, the Bronson house is even more special because of changes to its structure and the surrounding 250-acre landscape in two renovations, one in 1839 and another in 1849, by Davis for new owner Dr. Oliver Bronson. Davis transformed the house into one of the best and earliest surviving examples of the "Hudson River Bracketed" style. Davis and A.J. Downing are regarded up and down the Hudson Valley as leaders in the Picturesque style of American architecture. (Image at right courtesy of Michael Fredericks.)
The home's charming details include egg and dart verge board, elaborate trellis work, and, of course, those romantic ornamental brackets. Inside, the distinctive three-story elliptical staircase is an obvious scene-stealer, but the house is full of interesting detail. The 1849 addition doubled its size and included an octagonal gallery with "an enfilade of rooms that bring in lots of light," according to Peter Watson, Jr., a historic preservationist and keeper of the blog Dr. Oliver Bronson House Day Book, which chronicles the restoration. "It's a monster of a house," he says. "Everyone relates to it in different ways — some respond to the sense of decay — you know, works of man undone by nature. Others are interested in the architectural detail." Scenes for the motion picture "The Bourne Legacy" were filmed at the house and it has been the backdrop for catalog and other photo shoots. (The photo below is from one of those shoots, for the home furnishings and women's clothing company Anthropologie.)
After life as a gracious country residence, the property was bought by the state for use as a prison, with the house serving as a residence for the prison's superintendent. The New York State Training School for Girls, a euphemism for a girls' reformatory, operated there from 1904 until it closed in 1976, and can boast one famous "guest," the 16-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, who was incarcerated in the 1930s before her singing career took off. After the reformatory closed, the house sat empty and derelict until the preservation group Historic Hudson took it over in 1997, got it named a National Historic Landmark in 2003, and jumped in whole-hog to faithfully advocate for its stewardship, stabilization, and restoration, after a long battle to win a long-term lease for the property from the state in 2008.
Historic Hudson's Chair, Tim Dunleavy, says the current push to raise $100,000 is especially important as it will match a recent $300,000 grant from the Capital Region Economic Development Council and bring the restoration within range of completion.
Both this weekend, June 1 and 2, and next, June 8 and 9, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the house will be open through The New York State Path Through History initiative, which connects the public with historical attractions throughout the state. The final weekend includes "If these walls could talk…" an exhibit presented in conjunction with the Prison Public Memory Project that will explore life inside the former reformatory. Guided tours will be held at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
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Posted by Scott Baldinger on 05/28/13 at 11:08 AM • Permalink
Trade Secrets: The Ultimate Destination for Plants and Antiques
By Dan Shaw
One of the unspoken fears in our neck of the woods is that our area will eventually become like the Hamptons, with the helicopters of hedge-fund managers hovering over our hills and women toting their tomatoes from the farmers' market in Hermès bags. Of course, residents of the Rural Intelligence region have been worrying about Hamptonization for decades. (Are you old enough to remember the New York magazine cover story "Forget the Hamptons—Now It's Country Chic" in 1981? Or the "Hail, Columbia!" story in September 1986, when New York announced that "Columbia County, which was an economically stagnant backwater just three years prior, had become one the hottest second-home real-estate markets in the United States"?)
It's counterintuitive, but Trade Secrets—the glamorous rare plant and garden antiques sale this year on May 18 in Sharon, CT—has reassured us for the past 13 years that as stylish and trendy as our region may have become, it is definitely, and defiantly, not the Hamptons. While Trade Secrets has the elegance of an old money Southampton garden party, it has the heart and soul of a New England church supper. Entirely run by volunteers—no professional organizer collects a fee to stage this gardenpalooza—Trade Secrets is a major fundraiser for the worthiest of causes, Women's Support Services (WSS), a non-profit organization that offers free and confidential services to victims of domestic violence in northwest Connecticut, as well as nearby Massachusetts and New York State.
The event has haute/humble roots. It began on the front lawn of Bunny Williams's home in Falls Village, which is nearby the railroad tracks so that the china in her 19th century Greek Revival house vibrates when the freight train passes by twice a day. Her then chief gardener, Naomi Blumenthal, who was a WSS volunteer, suggested that they sell the overflow from the greenhouse as a fundraiser. Bunny and Naomi asked a few favorite antique dealers and nurseries if they'd like to set up booths, too, and Trade Secrets was born and became an instant institution. (Now, there is a waiting list to become a vendor and there are only five new ones this year: Anthropek, Peace Tree Farms, Peony's Envy, Rare Find Nursery, and Windy Hill Farm.)
Eventually, the Trade Secrets sale became too big for Williams's property in Falls Village, and is now held at Elaine LaRoche's vast Lion Rock Farm in Sharon with its corn fields, manicured gardens, and panoramic views of the Taconic Range. A second day of garden tours was added, and they are more evidence that we live in the unHamptons because the owners are hands-on gardeners (with hired help to be sure) who have a deep connection to their land and understanding of the physical and emotional challenges required to nurture a garden in our fickle zone. This year's tour features three homes in Sharon. There's Lee Link's unpretentious but luxurious garden that includes a custom greenhouse on one end and a sybaritic lap pool on the other; Garrett and Ann Goodbody's Mudge Manor with its breathtaking views of Mudge Pond, a pair of wisteria-draped pergolas, and a pool surrounded by perennial borders; Plum Creek Farm, Lea Davies and Larry Powers' home that features rock and woodland gardens, ponds, and formal foundation plantings that they've been cultivating for 30 years. And, as always, there is Bunny Williams's beloved spread in Falls Village with its Adirondack pool pavilion, orchard, parterre, and cutting gardens.
If you're a competitive shopper, it's wise to get the $100 early buyer's ticket (8 a.m. - 10 a.m.) so you get first crack at the antiques and plants that catch the eyes of uber-gardeners like Anne Bass, Margaret Roach (near left), Carolyne Roehm, and Martha Stewart (far left). But all the vendors who return year after year come prepared with a wide variety of merchandise, so whether you simply want some annuals for a planter, a rare fern for your shade garden or a topiary for your porch, you will find plenty to choose from. And no matter whether you live in Berkshire, Columbia, Dutchess, or Litchfield counties, Trade Secrets always feels like a homecoming.
Trade Secrets at Lion Rock Farm - May 18
Early Buying: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. — Admission: $100
Regular Buying 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Admission: $35
Trade Secrets Garden Tours - May 19
Admission: $60 in advance or $70 day of tour. Tickets can be purchased at any of the gardens or at Lion Rock Farm during the Trade Secrets sale.
Nearby restaurants for lunch:
Country Bistro, Salisbury
Falls Village Inn, Falls Village
Harney Tea Salon, Millerton
Oakhurst Diner, Millerton
Toymakers Cafe, Falls Village
Woodland, Lakeville
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Trade Secrets: The Ultimate Outdoor Shopping Party, May 16, 2009
Trade Secrets: Martha Stewart Makes the Scene, May 17, 2008
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Making A Day of Hyde Park
Springwood, the Dutchess County estate commonly (though erroneously) called Hyde Park, is to the pantheon of great American houses what Franklin Delano Roosevelt, its scion, is to the pantheon of great American men— perhaps not the most brilliant, but so preternaturally confident, relaxed, good-humored, and patrician that any shortcomings are quickly overlooked. Like FDR, Springwood bears no trace of the arriviste striving and pomposity that casts a pall over the Vanderbilt Mansion next door. It is comfortable American well-to-do, rather than lugubrious European rich — better suited to a Democracy and certainly to a Democrat.
The Roosevelt administration started with a bang. When he was elected, the Depression was entering its fifth year. Thousands of banks had failed, leaving their uninsured depositors penniless. Farmers in foreclosure and school teachers working without pay were demonstrating in the streets and being beaten and jailed by the police. Revolution appeared to be imminent and, to forestall that unthinkable end, the equally unthinkable means, a dictatorship, was being floated by, among others, Walter Lippmann, the pre-eminent liberal columnist of the day.
But Roosevelt did not use the state of emergency he inherited from Herbert Hoover as an excuse for making a power grab. He did not suspend the constitution or expand executive privilege to wartime levels, as many suggested he should. Instead, he instituted the first of his largely symbolic (in the beginning, at any rate) programs for putting the nation back to work and used the relatively new mass medium of radio to get his message across. That message was, of course, "We have nothing to fear…" but the subtext read, "Cheer up. Look at me, I can't even walk, and I'm confident. Now that I'm running things, you can be confident, too." Before his administration was 100 days old, there were long lines outside the banks, not of panicky people desperate to withdraw their life savings, but of upbeat depositors who saw it as their patriotic duty — if not as downright fashionable — to pull their cash from under their mattresses and put it back in the banks. The Age of Spin had dawned.
And then, on the 101st day, the president went sailing, and the press said, "well deserved." Ah, those were the days. It's all there, just down the road, inventively laid out for us at the The FDR Library. We sit in a replica of a Great Depression Era kitchen (built by McElroy Scenic Studios of Ashley Falls, MA, as was the rest of the exhibit) and listen to the radio as FDR's voice assures us that, "We have nothing to fear, but…" well, you know. Viewed up close, yet from the safe distance of 75 years, it's fascinating.
There's More to Springwood Than Politics
Now let's see, what else is interesting? Oh right, sex! Many people who visit Springwood combine it with a tour of the Vanderbilt Mansion, as it's right there. But unless you're really keen on ormolu, you can skip that and visit Wilderstein instead. While house tours won't resume until the first of May, the riverside grounds surrounding the house are open to the public, and seeing the mansion itself from the outside is more than worth the trip. (There will, however, be a Daffodil Tea with a tour of the house on Saturday, April 20 @ 1 p.m. to get "a glimpse of what tea time was like during the Victorian era.") This 35-room Queen Anne pile overlooking the Hudson in Rhinebeck, a few miles north of Springwood, was the ancestral home of Margaret (Daisy) Suckley, who died there at the age of nearly 100 in 1991. Upon her death, a battered black suitcase was found beneath her bed and in it scores of love letters from her distant cousin FDR. Although she was one of the four women (Eleanor not among them) who were with Franklin when he died at Warm Springs, Georgia in 1945, it had not been suspected that they were lovers until after her death. (See related article: A Grand Middle Ground.) Val-Kill, Eleanor's modest digs, and Top Cottage, FDR's private hideaway in the hills three miles above Springwood, are also both worth the detour. (Top Cottage, like Wilderstein, reopens May 1.)
And now to lunch: There is only one sane option. The Culinary Institute of America, on the same road five minutes south of Springwood, is Disneyland for foodies. The campus has five restaurants, each specializing in a different style of cuisine and service. I don't care for table-side service myself (think: silver domes whisked away in unison and frequent outbreaks of flambé) for the same reason I don't care for ormolu, so I tend to avoid the admittedly fabulous Escoffier. The Ristorante Caterina de'Medici has wonderful Italian food, particularly the fish. But for lunch, my favorite is the St. Andrews Café. Don't let that "Café" business fool you: this is a bright, attractive, carpeted, tablecloth joint, a perfect place to take a breather in the middle of a day of touring. While you are free to order a pizza or a sandwich at St. Andrews, to do so is to entirely miss the point. The food here is seriously tasty—modern, healthy, inventive, well-prepared and well-priced. Ask your waiter, a student, what to order. Trust him; he's on his way to becoming the next Wolfgang Puck. —Marilyn Bethany
Springwood, the Roosevelt home, and The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 4079 Albany Post Road (Route 9), Hyde Park; 845.486.7745; combined admission $14.
Top Cottage (re-opens May 1); admission, $8.
Val-Kill Cottage, the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site; admission $8.
The Vanderbilt Mansion; admission, $8.
People under 15 admitted free; over 62.
Wilderstein (re-opens May 1), 330 Morton Road, Rhinebeck; 845.876.4816; admission $10; seniors $9; children under 12 free.
The Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park; 845.452.9600 or reserve on-line
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Another New Era for the Salisbury Ski Jumps
There are not many spectator sports that make it worth your while to stand outside in frigid weather, but the annual Salisbury Ski Jumps are an exception because they're so thrilling—and heartwarming. The venerable competition (February 8 - 10), which is an unofficial proving ground for future Olympians, has been a highlight of winter in northwest Connecticut for 87 years.
In addition to the traditional rites of the competition, there's a new state-of-the-art tower (added two years ago), which was built in record time because the Salisbury Winter Sports Association had to promise to construct a new jump to woo the Junior Olympics. There is also a new line of handsome Salisbury Ski Jumps merchandise (right and below) produced by Peter Beck's Village Store: baseball caps ($15), knit caps ($39.50), long sleeve T-shirts ($25), and Patagonia fleece vests ($85). These will be sold at Satre Hill (where you can always purchase the cowbells that are traditionally rung as the skiers fly through the sky) as well as at Peter Beck's on Main Street.
While watching the jumpers when the sun is shining is nice, many spectators' favorite part of the weekend is Friday Nite Lites, when there is target jumping under the lights along with a chili cookoff, and a human dogsled race. The 12th annual ice-carving competition on Saturday will be held on the lawn of the Scoville Memorial Library. If you're not familiar with the charms of Salisbury, the Ski Jumps weekend is a great opportunity to explore shops such as Johnnycake Books, Passports, Salisbury Wines and Sweet William's Bakery.
87th Annual Salisbury Winter Sports Association Ski Jumps February 8 -10
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High Art Meets Hootenanny at MASS MoCA's FreshGrass Fest
Infamous Stringdusters perform on 9/21
"People might think of museums as being places where you have to be quiet and careful," says Katherine Myers, director of public relations and marketing at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. "But MASS MoCA—we like to try new things."
The dynamic and decidedly unstuffy North Adams museum's latest venture has roots music fans tapping their toes in anticipation. From September 21-23, MASS MoCA is hosting its second annual FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival. The rollicking concerts extend the museum's tradition of adventurous summer music festivals like Bang On a Can and Wilco Solid Sound well into shoulder season. And lest anyone doubt that there's a large, enthusiastic, off-season audience, festival tickets are already sold out; Myers says MASS MoCA will be able to release more tickets if the weather cooperates and allows greater use of the museum's outdoor performance spaces.
"Bluegrass is an interesting kind of music because there's an old-fashioned kind of feel to it, but it's also very popular with younger people," says Myers. The music's long history and vibrant present is reflected in the festival's diverse lineup, which unites such bluegrass legends as David Grisman and Tony Rice with fast-rising talents like Carolina Chocolate Drops and Spirit Family Reunion.
Rhiannon Ghiddens, singer and fiddler with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who were enthusiastically received at their last MASS MoCA appearance two years ago, attributes the current groundswell of interest in bluegrass to the premium that roots musicians place on showmanship. "We're not just sitting there," she says. "We're entertaining the crowd."
Leyla McCalla plays on Sunday 9/23
Bluegrass is a big-tent genre, encompassing sounds that range from quiet folk to shambling rockabilly foot-stompers; the FreshGrass festival includes artists with a wide range of styles. During the day, concert-goers can bop to the acoustic tunes of New Orleans-based cellist and banjoist Leyla McCalla. Come Friday and Saturday nights, they'll rev their engines with high-energy groups like the punk-tinged band The Devil Makes Three. "Our hope is that people will just dance like crazy," says Myers.
Most concerts will be held in the 10,000 square-foot Hunter Center or in MASS MoCA's outdoor courtyard, depending on the weather. The museum will also integrate pop-up performances into its art exhibits too. "There may be a time when you're just wandering around in the galleries and all the sudden there's Alison Brown playing a little show with one amp or no amp," Myers notes.
Attendees who want to polish up on their banjo skills can attend music workshops with world-renown strummers Bill Evans and Brown on Saturday and Sunday. The musically-inclined can strut their stuff at informal jam sessions on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Those interested in understanding the physics behind bluegrass's distinctive twang may be interested in a talk by a local luthier who will explain how guitars are made.
Visitors new to the bluegrass landscape will have a handy guide in Friday's world premiere of The Porchlight Sessions, a documentary that filmmaker Anna Schwaber calls "Bluegrass 101."
Morgan O'Kane, who plays on 9/21, also appears in "The Porchlight Sessions"
The Porchlight Sessions features many of the bands playing at FreshGrass, including The Infamous Stringdusters and Morgan O'Kane, who Schwaber first spotted busking at an L train station in New York City. Schwaber says the documentary's crowd-sourced perspective stays true to the music's grassroots appeal. "It traces the evolution of the sound of bluegrass," Schwaber says, "not through one band or a voiceover, but through the voice of the community."
The documentary also gives longtime bluegrass fans plenty of reasons to stomp their feet in appreciation. "We've got some really beautiful, intimate, private performances," says Schwaber. "A lot of people haven't seen their favorite musicians in that kind of spotlight."
Families can find plenty to keep the junior set occupied at the festival, too. MASS MoCA's Kidspace activities include an instrument-making workshop with Mamie Minch on Sunday and a presentation on Bigfoot that culminates in kids shaping their own beastly creations at the Bigfoot Art Cabaret.
A bird's eye view of last year's FreshGrass festival
Since MASS MoCA will have a captive audience during FressGrass, it's taking care to provide attendees with a a wide range of local food and drink options, including plenty of vegetarian choices and a FreshGrass IPA produced just for the festival by The People's Pint in Greenfield.
And no visit would be complete without tasting those aforementioned, intriguingly named moonshine slushies, a beverage that puts a (legal) twist on old-timey homebrew. "It sounds like they'll cool you off while they burn you up," jokes Carolina Chocolate Drops' instrumentalist Dom Flemons. "I'll have to get my hands on one of those." —Sarah Todd
MASS MoCA FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival 2012
September 21- 23, 2012
MASS MoCA
87 Marshall St, North Adams, MA
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Creative Workspaces Open to the Public in Art Studio Views
Clockwise from top left: Randy Bloom with one of her paintings; works by Jeff Romano, Carl Greico, and Richard Chianelle
It's hard enough to be an artist. But to be an artist working alone in a studio in a quiet rural area, however noted for its sophistication and culture, can be, if not a hardship, just a wee bit lonesome and isolating.
When Doris Cultraro (left) first came to Rhinebeck from New York City to set up her studio for making stained glass, she says, "I heard the arts and artists were here—but where were they? I truly wanted to know." That is how Art Studio Views came into being. Now in its fifth year, this free, self-guided tour, taking place over Labor Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, September 1 and 2, is designed to promote the work and talents of local artists in Northern Dutchess County. Nearly 40 artists in Hyde Park, Clinton, Rhinebeck, Red Hook, Staatsburg, and Tivoli will open their studios to the public to "share their creative environment, and help visitors understand the inspiration that drives their passion," Cultraro notes.
"The idea was to encourage people to come into the region and to get beyond the gallery experience to see how the artist works," says Cultraro. She says that it started with 21 participants in 2007 and now has nearly 40, including painters such as Randy Bloom of Tivoli, sculptors such as Carl Greico of Hyde Park, printmakers such as Melissa Braggins of Rhinebeck (below), and photographers such as Richard Chianelle from Rhinebeck, as well as numerous other artists and artisans working in a variety of media.
"It's one thing to talk to a gallery owner about an artist, and it's another to see one working in the flesh," says Cultraro, who initiated the tour with three other artists. The artists will do what they normally do, and throw in extras for visitors. Joan Levittt, a printmaker in Staatsburg, will teach guests how to make monoprints, by having them create patterns on Plexiglas and run it through the press themselves. Christine Livesey in Rhinebeck, a seriographer who does traditional silk screening, will demonstrate her age-old techinique with help from visitors. Carl Greico will demonstrate the seemingly impossible task of manipulatulating marble or stone into abstract sculptural works.
"It's hard, like corralling the cats, and I had to pull all my skills in the corporate world to make it happen," notes Cultraro, a former vice president of administration at Comedy Central, of organizing the annual tour. "Even though I was the newbie at the time, I ended up carrying the torch. But it's been very rewarding, working with all the artists." She credits Alice Seeger (niece-in-law of you-know-who) as especially helpful in organizing and promoting this year's tour; Seeger created this lyrical video for the event.
A new feature of this year's Art Studio Views is an online auction of wooden boxes designed and donated by each of the artists. Auction proceeds benefit Vassar Brothers Medical Center Pediatric Unit Oncology Arts Program at Vassar Brother's Hospital in Poughkeepsie. You can check out the Art Boxes in storefront windows in Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and Hyde Park, or preview them here.
Of course Cultraro's Rhinebeck stained glass studio is also on the tour. "I'll be having demonstrations on how to make stained glass, a glass-cutting clinic for home repairs, and also a short film on how glass is made," she says. "With popcorn." – Scott Baldinger
The Art Studio Views
A self-guided open-studio tour of 30-plus artists in Dutchess County
Labor Day Weekend, Saturday September 1 & Sunday, September 2, 2012
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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The initiative's purpose is to stop Danville's government from violating the Open Space Preservation Measure S passed by 75% of the voters in 2000.
The Elworthy Ranch project now being built by KB Homes on the westside hills legally required a Measure S public vote after the Town Council approved it, but the Council continues to claim no vote was necessary. The public could have stopped that KB Homes project!
The Council is about to violate Measure S again regarding Magee Ranch in the Diablo Road corridor. SummerHill Homes wants to built 64+ homes on 200 Agricultural acres there and the next and likely final Planning Commission hearing on the project is expected to be April 23rd. The Council maintains that if it approves the project (and we fully expect it to), no public vote is required. Please attend that April 23rd hearing (check the Town of Danville website to confirm date, location, and time). Don't let the Town Council violate Measure S again!
And don't forget to sign the Initiative petition this weekend!
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Posted 1:52 AM 3/21/2013 : TUSD prepares for another new superintendent
TUCSON - The TUSD community is getting ready for another new superintendent.
John Pedicone announced his resignation in a news conference Wednesday. He has been in the position about 2 and a half years.
He never planned on being in the position long term, and the Governing Board knew that.
School board member Mark Stegeman said Pedicone has done great work, but they will stay consistent.
"The most important people in the district are never the board or the central administration," Stegeman said. "The most important people are principals and the teachers and the other site staff that take care of the children that families entrust to us."
Michael Esser is a math teacher at Howenstine High School. He has been with the district since 2000.
"The entire administrative culture in TUSD may need to change," Esser said, "and it may be something that [Pedicone] was not able to get done as effectively as he wanted to do."
He said he spoke as a citizen and taxpayer, not a teacher.
"I think they need to look into the classrooms to find the people that actually need to lead TUSD," Esser said.
David Caffarel's niece attends Roskruge K-8 near the University of Arizona.
"I think it's a shame," he said. "I think he was a good man and he was the right man for the job."
Pedicone will stay until June 30.
The board will start a national search for a replacement immediately.
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I have to admit.. mighty impressed with the aesthetics of this RAM and especially the packaging - something which isn't usually a priority.. performance with OC easily competes with the other 2+GHz modules.. Hope Exeleram brings an updated model but retaining the same good looks.. Its 'sharp' looks are worthy of a photo-shoot (see here what i mean ) and also in the "Sexy Hardware Close-Up Pic Clubhouse" thread Thanks for the review Dave..
Exceleram does have more recent "Rippler" products, and does seem to keep up with the bigger memory houses on product releases, it's just that they have limited global distribution, so they are not seen often. Hopefully I'll see more products of theirs come across my desk real soon!
Would love to see these in 8GB and 16GB Kits. What kind of ICs are these using? I looked but didn't see them listed. I could have easily missed them though.
By physical characteristics and clocking, I think they are PSC-based. Exceleram does have 8 and 16 GB kits in the Rippler line-up, but they feature blue heatsinks instead of red.


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MIG Editor - A Geographical Metadata Editor [migeditor]
The MIG Editor is a geographical metadata editor that implements a subset of the 19115, 19119 and 19139 ISO formats. Based in the Portuguese Metadata Profile and INSPIRE requirements.
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The Metadata Extraction Tool was developed by the National Library of New Zealand to programmatically extract preservation metadata from a range of file formats like PDF documents, image files, sound ...
GpsPrune - An Application for Viewing, Editing and Converting Coordinate Data from GPS Systems [GpsPrune]
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PRogramme for Integrated earth System Modeling (PRISM) [PRISM]
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It appears Hanover Borough will participate in a market analysis study to examine the feasibility of a heritage and conference center for downtown Hanover.
The borough's finance committee Wednesday night overwhelmingly supported joining the Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce in a public/private funding venture for the study, which would be conducted by a Philadelphia-based management consulting firm.
Council members said the nearly $7,200 the borough would contribute toward the study was a small investment for the potential return. The borough has long sought to spark revitalization efforts downtown.
"I think this is an investment in the community. Seventy-two hundred dollars is certainly a reasonable investment in downtown," Councilwoman Heidi Hormel said.
"I think it's a partnership we should look at," Councilwoman Kimberly Griffin said. "We want that information."
Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce President Gary Laird and local businessman Scott Roland presented the idea last fall of establishing a downtown center that could host banquets, receptions and business conferences. Last week, they updated the council on their progress and requested the borough contribute a third of the $21,535 study cost. The chamber would pay for a third of the study, and the final third would come from private funds.
Laird and Roland said the market analysis is needed to determine what potential a medium-sized conference center here would have of being financially self-sufficient. The study would include a supply-and-demand analysis for the center, using a 40-mile radius from downtown Hanover. It would also look at where local hotel customers are coming from, gaps in the downtown retail market, and similar projects and the lessons learned.
But Councilman Sonny Eline has raised concerns about the borough partnering with a private group.
"The taxpayers should not be handing money over to a private interest for speculation, no matter what the amount," said Eline, who was not present for Wednesday's committee meeting but emailed his response to the center idea. "I have been a strong advocate of downtown revitalization, but not at the taxpayers' expense."
The finance committee made a favorable recommendation to the council, which is expected to vote on the study funding at its meeting next Wednesday. Eline said he is considering making a motion at that meeting to rescind recent rate increases for garbage, water and sewer service for residents if the council votes to help fund the study.
"What kind of message are we sending if we support a venture like this?" Eline said. "What sort of precedent does it set?"
Hanover Borough Council President John Gerken said the borough's involvement is minimal and that concerns about funding for a center and who would own it are premature.
"This (the study) has nothing to do with ownership. This is just seeing if it's feasible," he said.
Gerken said the borough has to do what it can to help the downtown and that a heritage and conference center would be a good addition.
"People are going to go to other places (downtown) and spend money," he said. "This is going to encourage business downtown."
Councilman Gerald Funke said he had heard of one company that now holds it meetings in York because there is no adequate facility in Hanover. He noted that Hanover is home to a number of large companies that could use a local facility.
"I'm sure there are other companies that have grown too large to have conferences here," he said.
Laird said the information collected from the study would be shared with the borough and could be incorporated into its new comprehensive plan.
That information also would be essential to the borough in any future efforts to get grants and investments for downtown improvements, Hormel pointed out.
"We need the study to leverage whatever we want to do," she said.
Laird said the study would look at the viability of a 100- to 500-guest facility that could also serve as a welcome center for the borough. Laird said he hoped the study would be completed by late summer.
"If one business goes into downtown because of the study it would be worth it," said Henry McLin, finance committee chairman.
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The sequence of events which brings natural stone from the quarry to the home has not changed much since stone entered the homes of the ancient Greeks. Large blocks of stone are cut from the quarry. From those blocks, thin pieces of stone are cut called slabs. The slabs are then shaped and polished and shipped for installation.
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December 4th, 2013, 2:01 pm by ERIC STEPHENSANAHEIM -- The big smile that Mathieu Perreault often wore during his hot start with the Ducks has faded. A lack of production and the inability to play at your best can do that to a player.
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Camp Cedarledge is approximately 45 minutes south of downtown St. Louis.
Camp encompasses nearly 700 acres of wooded hills, accentuated by rocky ledges, cedar trees and grassy meadows. Units include tree houses, small cabins, winterized lodges, permanent tent units, primitive units and two-day outing areas. A swimming pool is available for troop/group use.
High hills and rambling creeks offer invitations to such activities as hiking to Atwood Lake and searching the creek beds for lucky stones, which are stones with holes worn through the center.
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