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It started decades ago with the slow-food movement. That morphed into the Farm to Plate movement and admonitions to "eat locally." With that sensibility raised, the movement inched inexorably forward to include those things we drink, leading to an explosion in local craft breweries.

"The growth in local brewers is directly related to farm-to-table, back-to-local movement," said Bill Heaton, co-founder of Big Elm Brewing in Sheffield MA. "People are really concerned with where their food and drink come from. And peopl...

Designer and antiques dealer Michael Trapp traces his current career to his early family experience.

“My parents couldn’t let me take art in high school,” he said. “It was a pent-up frustration that exploded in all directions.”

Those directions include interior, landscape and architectural design, dealing in antiques and an architectural salvage business. “It’s all basically the same kind of thing,” he said, “except that I do both inside and outside design, which most people don’t do.”

His direction in life started early. His military family moved frequently before even...

Ian Ingersoll, renowned cabinetmaker from West Cornwall, is multilingual. “I love the classics, but I am tasked to work in the modern world” he said, “so I work in five different languages of modern design.”

After 42 years in the woodworking business, his world is still unfolding. “You have to go where the market is,” he said. “I have no idea what will be next.”

Ingersoll began his odyssey when he built a house and its furnishings for himself after...