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THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL CO., LLC — Publishers of The Lakeville Journal, The Millerton News, The Winsted Journal, www.TriCornerNews.com

SEPTEMBER �improvements fall 

Rain gardens,a solutionfor pollution

 4

GARDENS

 What to wearwatchingold movies

 8

FASHION

 What’s autumnwithoutthem?

 11

PUMPKINS

How couplesdecorate,together

 13

DECOR

Farmers marketsgo inside forwinter

 17

PRODUCE

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A New Garden Idea

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The Importance of Socks

by Patrick L. Sullivan ...........................................  p. 8

What Autumn Means

by Darryl Gangloff ................................................  p. 11

Decorating for Two

by Cynthia Hochswender .................................  p. 13

Farmers Markets In Winter

by Whitney Joseph ...............................................  p. 17 

Fashion Forecast

by Megan Stevens .................................................  p. 19

 Fall ImprovementsSEPTEMBER, �

©2014 The Lakeville Journal Company, LLC

Published byThe Lakeville Journal

Company, LLC33 Bissell St.,PO Box 1688

Lakeville, CT, 06039800-339-9873

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This is one of those no-brainers. It’s in the samecategory as placing solar panels on our roofs.Only this is a lot easier, and cheaper, whichshould have everyone slapping their heads.

  Here it is. Every yard should have a rain garden.  What’s there to object to?  Rain Gardens are small perennial beds that are the per-fect informal landscaping, especially for this area, where

 Karen Bartomioli picks up

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manicured lawns are not a priority. Little or no main-tenance is required. In fact, leaving them be is oftenkey to helping them thrive. They can be cost-free, andin this area, planning agencies are taking action tomake rain gardens and other low impact development(LID) approaches mandatory for new construction

and renovation projects.  The idea is to slow down and filter runoff fromimpervious surfaces around your home. The roof, ve-hicles, walkways and driveway, anything that doesnot absorb water can produce contamination. No mat-ter how well you maintain your property and cars,these impervious surfaces speed runoff bearing drop-pings from birds, wild animals and pets, herbicidesand fertilizer to vulnerable spots. And the rainwater

and snowmelt that will end up in well water, reser- voirs and sensitive nature habitats will contain petro-leum products, heavy metals, bacteria (E. coli is verycommon) and nutrients to name a few.

Even trace levels will add up over time and combinewith the neighbors’ runoff.  What makes the difference is about six inches.Instead of installing raised garden beds that needmulching and weeding, a rain garden is planted in a

depression, called a swale.  Sean Hayden, executive director of the NorthwestConservation District, is very interested in LID. Thereis nothing difficult to understand about the problemor the solutions.  “About 92 percent of rain falls an inch or less anhour,” Hayden said. “If you can slow it down and filterit before it gets into rivers and other water sources,

 you’ve cleaned up nearly all of the pollutants.”

  A garden situated where it will collect runoff willslowly filter the water down through its roots before ithits groundwater. When working properly — they are easily successful — runoff will be absorbed within48 hours, thus preventing mosquitoes from using it asa breeding ground.  Hayden has been working on projects for several

. . . Some of It,

Anyway

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hearing about projects that are defining large subdivisiondevelopments, installing a garden or two in one’s own yardseems even simpler.  There are plenty of ideas for rain gardens and larger ap-

proaches on the Internet. They can be designed as a majorlandscaping asset, or to be mostly functional, depending onhow visible they will be or how much one cares.  Plants that don’t mind wet soils will love it, and can oftenbe found in one’s own yard or wooded areas. Fern, daylily,blueberry and some saplings and are just some of the variet-ies that will love their new home and set down dense rootsystems.  It is important to be sure to plant in native soils that will

drain well. Hayden said that applies to any place that hasnot been excavated and filled with topsoil. It is worth get-ting a soil analysis in those cases. The conservation districtoffers advice and can refer people to resources for properplacement of a rain garden.  For me, it was about a persistent puddle in a corner of ourdirt driveway. The plan was to dig a trough or two to let itdrain down the steep front slope of the property. Made sense.There’s a storm drain at the point just below.

  But before we got around to that, I learned about LID. Iworried that water would drain too quickly into the stormdrain, which empties into a beautiful swamp down the road.Hayden said it should be fine as long as we leave the ma-ture trees that pack the slope. We are lucky because thatpuddle easily identified where most of our runoff goes. Afew small culverts keep it drained, but the plan is to installa small swale at the top of the hill and fill it with ferns, andmaybe a raspberry bush from the yard.

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For the exciting Fall Improvements supplement toThe Lakeville Journal newspapers, I would like toconcentrate on improving both the outer and inner

man. So... Let’s talk socks.  As the weather cools off, the ordinary cotton sock may notbe quite hefty enough to keep the lower digits warm.But it’s far too early to be digging out the thick wool socks.  I suggest the Wigwam 625.  This is the modern-day version of the classic gym sock. InFairfax County, VA, in the 1970s, we were issued two pairs atthe start of the school year, on the theory that two pairs dou-bled the chances of the socks making it to the student’s home

and washing machine.  Of course, this never happened and is the reason why I aman expert on the life span of the Wigwam sock.  The modern Wigwam 625 is 60 percent wool, 40 percentnylon, and, when new, a pleasing cream color. You can findthem at Saperstein’s, in Millerton, NY.  The classic casual fall look is the Wigwam paired withclean blue jeans and penny loafers, with a white or blueoxford shirt (with buttondown collar) and a windbreaker orsport coat. You can go just about anywhere in this get-up.  So much for socks.

How about sweaters?  A wool sweater might well be too heavy in the early partof fall. I like cotton sweaters, in plain colors, and I prefer a V-neck, because my own personal neck has gotten so big that acrew neck feels like an execution. Your mileage may vary.  Lands’ End makes one that is inexpensive and available intwo exciting colors — navy blue and light gray. They call thelatter “pewter heather,” which sounds like a contradiction in

terms.  Finally, the headgear.

I am a big fan of Connecticut’s own Noggin Tops store,which has a wide variety of tweed caps and, even better, thoseshapeless tweed things the late Daniel P. Moynihan used towear.  For rougher weather, I suggest a Filson “tin cloth” hat,which comes in both standard and insulated models, and re-pels almost everything. Peter Becks in Salisbury carries them.

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Shifting gears abruptly, now that you are properly attired forautumn you’ll want something to watch on television as soonas the networks announce the stimulating fall lineup of ghast-ly programs no sentient human being could possibly endure.  Your best bet is the continuous sale of classic films on DVDat the Douglas Library in North Canaan (by “classic” I mean“amusingly awful.”)  On a recent trip I spent a whopping $19 and walked out ofthere with a Warner Bros. box set, “Cult Camp Classics 1,”

which includes “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman,” “The GiantBehemoth,” and the truly remarkable “Queen of Outer Space,”starring Zsa Zsa Gabor, with cardboard sets and a lot of Venu-sian guards with really good legs.  “Drive-In Classics” from the always reliable “Something

 Weird” people includes “Two Thousand Maniacs” and doublediscs containing “Swamp Girl,” and “This Is Swamp Country”;“Speed Lovers” and “Thunder in Dixie”; “This Stuff’ll Kill Ya!”and “The Year of the Yahoo.”  But wait! There’s more! The fine “Zombie Madness” collec-tion has five features. According to the invaluable InternetMovie Data Base website, they are all recent, and all horrible.But for $2, isn’t it worth taking a chance on something called“Fast Zombies with Guns”?  There was even some legit stuff: a “Brat Pack” three-fer set,the Coen Brothers’ “Burn After Reading,” and Lon Chaney inthe original Universal production of “The Wolf Man.”  You can have theme movie nights with these flicks, and wearclean blue jeans, loafers and Wigwam socks for the occasion.  

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The title of Mary Randolph Carter’s new bookis as much challenge as exhortation. It’s called“Never Stop To Think … Do I Have a Place forThis?”

Carter is a famous collector of old and nifty clothes,

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Couples, CollectingAnd the Fire of Desire

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So, when I read the title of Carter’s new book, my firstthought was this: If you never stop to think before you buya new decoration for your house (that you share with anoth-er person), it must be kind of hard on your housemate. Thethought of it made me anxious.

After reading this book, though, I felt not just relieved butenergized. Couples can and do work this out. Even coupleswith very strong personalities and opinions, including threecouples who live right here in the Tri-state region and are

featured in the book.One couple is Kent Hunter and Jonathan Bee, the ownersof Hunter Bee, a shop full of stuff for the home, some of itantique, all of it very cool, quirky and attractive.

Both the partners in this marriage have strong opinionsabout many things, especially esthetics. They’re both artistsin addition to being merchants.

And like everyone featured in this book, they are both col-lectors of things for the home.

 Who gets to decide what comes home and where it goesonce it’s in the house? Of course these kinds of decisionsare never as simple as they seem in a chapter in a book butwhatever they’ve done seems to be working; they’ve beentogether for 20 years.

 Judging from the quotes in the book, there are certainthings both collectors agree on: They both like odd scale(very big things and very small things); they both like ob-

 jects with a story behind them; they both agree that a houseshould have stuff with personality.

Hunter seems to bring the voice of restraint to their col-lecting and to the display of the collections. But they havealso found an escape valve for those moments when theydon’t agree: Bee has one room over which he has total con-trol. They call it the Buddha Room, in part because of thespiritual nature of some of Bee’s collections and his ownartwork.

Carter quotes Bee as saying, with a laugh,“It’s the roomKent said I could have. It’s the designated room where he

can’t give his two cents.” Which is like, he’s kidding but he’s not kidding, and this

compromise does seem to work for some couples. The editor I worked for at Metropolitan Home had a sim-

ilar arrangement with his wife — who was at the time oneof the top photo stylists in the country. When I asked themhow they divide up the decorating chores, he said, “She getsthe guest bathroom.”

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Another couple featured in this book lives in WestCornwall. Duncan Hannah is a well-known painter,and his wife, Megan Wilson, is a designer of book cov-ers (and owner of a website that sells cool old stuffand cool stuff that looks old, at www.ancientindustries.com).

 In the Hannah/Wilson household, as at Hunter/Bee’shome, both collect but only one curates (in this case,it is Wilson). This not only suits Hannah, it also seemsto make him really happy, in part because his mate isable to see themes in his acquisitions that are some-times invisible to his eye.

“Take the grouping of green metal objects corralledtogether on a hallway shelf,” Carter says in her descrip-tion of their home. She quotes Hannah saying, “I never

knew I collected green metal objects until Megan putthem all together. She’s the artful wrangler.”I encountered possibly the sweetest story of a house-

hold blessed with a happy marriage at the Carter/Berghome a few weeks ago. The aim was to discuss thisnewest book.

It was Berg who invited me into the kitchen, andwho kept me company for a few minutes until Carter

 joined us. He was making a salad or something yum-

my, I can’t remember what, and he seemed pleasantand mellow but certainly like someone with strongopinions of his own.

And yet not only does he allow Carter to fill theirhome with endless amounts of what she herself calls

 junk, he usually is the one who drives with her to thetag sales/junk shops/estate clearances that yield thesetreasures. That to me is a beautiful love story.

And collecting, as Carter describes it, is also a lovestory, or better still it is the essence of desire — which,it seems to me, is what keeps all couples happily to-gether and eager to please their mate.

“Desire is a blessing,” Carter writes. “It means thatthere is something in the world that we still want,crave and must have. It gets us up in the morning. Itstirs us to hunt and search for something we know isout there that will somehow make us happy, give uspleasure, and possibly complete who we are.” p

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. . . Collecting To Complete

Who We Are

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But now those farm-fresh goods, thanks to somebrainstorming, planning and a little ingenuity,

many local farmers markets run all year long. Amongthem is the popular Amenia Farmers Market on Route 22.

“It’s grown to what it is and we’re pretty happy withit,” said market co-founder and local farmer Rudy Es-chbach, who sells beef and pork raised from his ownCedar Hill Farm at the Amenia market. “It has stabilityand repeat customers and a lot of referrals, and I think

it’s because people know they’re getting quality prod-ucts here. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t come back.”

Most of the 16 steady vendors and the occasionaldrop-by vendors come from within a 20-mile ra-dius, Eschbach said, keeping a “Buy Local Hud-son Valley” theme strong from booth to booth.

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duce to be available in the fall and winter as well.“Now people are doing something called tunnel farm-ing, so there are fresh vegetables all year long,” he said.“You can grow cabbages, kale, broccoli, all kinds of stuffthroughout the winter.” The tunnels, he says, come in

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Not only can customers count on fresh produce in thecold weather, they can find beef, pork, lamb, veal, olive oil,garlic, baked goods, wine, cheese, homemade Indian cuisine,wool products, handmade soap, dog food and dog treats —even a local knife sharpener has a booth at the market.

“We find the response is pretty positive,” said Es-chbach, “because people know the source of their

food, they know it’s reliable, that it’s wholesome,that they don’t have to worry about it, and they en-

 joy it — and then they keep coming back.”The Amenia Farmers Market in the Town Hall park-

ing lot runs during the summer on Fridays, from3 to 7 p.m. Starting Nov. 1 through the month ofApril it moves inside the Amenia Town Hall on Sat-urdays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more informa-tion, go to www.ameniafarmersmarket.com.

In neighboring Millerton a lively summertime farm-ers market runs every Saturday through October, from9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Railroad Plaza. Once it gets cold out,it runs weekly for November and December and bi-weekly January through April, on Saturdays, from 10a.m. to 2 p.m. As of press time the location for the win-ter market was still under negotiation. For more in-formation go to www.millertonfarmersmarket.org.

Millbrook also has a lovely farmers market, whichruns from May 24 to Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., rainor shine. Awarded Hudson Valley Magazine’s Readers’Choice Best Farmers Market of 2013, the Millbrook Farm-ers Market is located at the municipal parking lot acrossfrom the Bank of Millbrook. The market is seasonal anddoes not run during the colder months. For more infor-mation go to www.millbrooknyfarmersmarket.com. p

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