Trillium cover a hillside with wide three-corner flowers and the pungent odor of … old socks. “Remind you of your locker room days?” said Carrieanne Petrik-Huff, laughing, after a wildflower walk at Bartholomew’s Cobble.
Read articleBerkshire daily news sees a new future
Berkshire daily news is in local hands now — New England News Inc., the Berkshire Eagle, Bennington Banner, Manchester Journal and Brattleboro Reformer.
Read articleBerkshire writers travel in time with Berkshire Theatre Group
“Harriet Beecher Stowe had a manic depressive husband, and the roof leaked, and she had seven children, and she wrote ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’” said Berkshire playwright Barbara Sims. “She inspired me. I’ve raised children; I’m in a marriage; but how do you make your own identity?” She read Stowe’s journal […]
Read articlePublic Eat + Drink serves purple potato chips and humor
Macaroni and cheese in the middle of a menu with mussels and fennel sausage in a rich broth, and sticky toffee pudding? When the cold snap came, my friend Sandy suggested we go out to dinner … at Public Eat + Drink in North Adams.
Read articlePoetry Month Day 9
Well, I’ve made it for a week or so into National Poetry Month, following their challenge along with WordxWord and adapting when their ideas don’t quite fit.
Read articlePoetry Month Day 7
It’s National Poetry Month, and WordxWord is rolling through their own daily challenges and invites the world to join them.
Read articlePoetry Month Day 6
As NaPoWriMo leads a national challenge, around here WordxWord gives their own daily challenges and invites all comers …
Read articleWhy read poetry?
When someone puts into words a way I have been feeling, the world feels open and understandable — like walking with someone I love and seeing for the first time the way the late light hits the old wooden siloes by the railroad tracks.
Read articlePoetry Month Day 5
A prompt feels like an invitation to explore something, like a tasting for the mind. It’s National Poetry Month, with its poem-a-day challenges …
Read articlePoetry month Day 4
It’s a busy time, even this early in spring, as summer starts to stir … but right now it’s National Poetry Month, with its poem-a-day challenges, and I’m following as long as I can.
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