Mindy Miraglia is good at finding places like this. She and Berkshire Camino are leading a guided walk on a fall morning from Housatonic to Chesterwood …
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A woman in the woods at Field Farm in fall
It’s an unusually warm fall day when I find myself eye to eye with a woman resting in the grass … and she’s warm glinting bronze, a sculpture in the garden at Field Farm.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed charts galaxies and infinite libraries
In an octagonal room at the Williams College Museum of Art, abstract forms ring the walls like astral bodies, like baby stars half visible in a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust.
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Looking for fall color and energy (October 13 newsletter)
These still days are rare — when the leaves are turning and before they fall — so I’ve taken an hour on a work day afternoon to walk up the old hay field on Sheep Hill.
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Mohican families connect in the land — across time
Bonney Hartley’s family lived here six generations ago. She is standing in the Stockbridge cemetery, in the sun under the maple trees, where her ancestor, Naunauneekkanuck, stood in 1735.
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Sisters find new Indigenous dimensions in ‘Kamloopa’
In Kim Senklip Harvey’s awardwinning comedy, two sisters and a close friend take a journey into power and find strength in their Native identities in their own ways.
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Phillip B. Williams reforms worlds in ‘Mutiny’
Nationally awardwinning poet Phillip B. Williams has published his newest book, moving through a space where myth and story and lived experience charge the air — a place of persistence, anger and beauty.
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Improvising the energy to make connections (October 6 newsletter)
Mountain Day came last Friday morning. It happens almost spontaneously — Students caravan up to Stony Ledge and sit in the grass with cider doughuts while a cappella groups perform.
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Walk across time in hiking boots (Sept 29 newsletter)
Abigail Haynes-Lennox is directing us — a soprano in the extended company of Roomful of Teeth, up here on a mountain leading a damp and sweaty bunch of hikers in Shaker hymns.
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Climbing Holy Hill revives a Shaker pilgrimage
Two music ensembles, Our Native Daughters and Roomfull of Teeth, and artist Allison Smith transform a walk in the woods into an experience of art and music in Climbing Holy Hill at Hancock Shaker Village.
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Books and bluegrass are sparking new stories (Sept 22 newsletter)
She sang and she held the room in her hands. Her voice was clear alto, almost tenor, and guitar chords and percussion built an inexorable rythm in love and anger and grief. I can still remember shivering with it.
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Asking who Emily Dickinson loved
Emily Dickinson is more than I knew. The metaphysical recluse in white is a hurt, outspoken, ardent woman in a smock the wind can blow through.
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Emily Dickinson opens her garden gate
Emily Dickinson rounds the corner from the orchard to rest from apple picking — and runs straight into us.
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