At the A-Frame Bakery in Williamstown, Sharon Sutter is preparing pies — apple, pumpkin, cranberry and blueberry, pecan, maple apple mincemeat … and tarts, pumpkin rolls, and maple-glazed cheesecake. Later she will make Hanukkah treats, often for families wanting to send a holiday memory to students away from home. Christmas […]
Read articleStanding together: Thoughts before the electoral vote — By the Way column
Since the election, I have been trying to think. Like many people I love, I am afraid for the country I live in, and I’m afraid for people I love.
Read articleArts Night Out gets hands-on in the studio
Around me, a dozen people are shaping clay with stamps and imprints and molds and drinking local brew. It’s a winter night at Berkshire Art Center, and I’ve finally made it to an Arts Night Out.
Read articleClark offers Japanese Impressions
On a cold, clear morning in a studio in Edo, a man picks up a paintbrush. He remembers a day on the coast at sunrise when the maple leaves were turning crimson.
Read articleBerkshire tree farms grow spruce, fir and pine
The grass is frost-scuffed, and the afternoon light gives the bare trees a glow. We park in the field by the barn and walk up the hill carrying a bow saw. The air smells of balsam. The baby trees on the fringes come up to our knees, but we are […]
Read articleLooking for light on long nights in the mountains (By the Way column)
This is an unusual holiday season. For some of us, looking out at a divided country, it is difficult to know how to face the end of this year and the beginning of the next.
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