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Jeanette Staley featured at River Artisans Co-op

June’s River Artisans Cooperative featured artist is painter and collage artist Jeanette Staley, whose painting career has spanned more than 30 years. As proprietor of an art studio in Hudson, Mass., for 12 years, she provided a venue to support emerging visual and performing artists and musicians. Staley taught classes in painting and collage to […]

Create an intense chocolately cacao cream pie

Create an intense chocolately cacao cream pie

By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com Basically, ‘cocoa’ and ‘cacao’ are the same thing — all right, they are the same thing. The word cacao is the original name for what the English speaking people call cocoa. So why the difference? Simply because cocoa is a spelling mistake from many years ago that no one has ever […]

Summer travels are as close as a good book

Summer travels are as close as a good book

By John Hoover I have met very few people who haven’t wished to travel, to see other parts of our nation or our world, even if only from the comfort of their armchair. Since summer is the time when many people travel, the owners and staff at Misty Valley Books thought we’d share with you some […]