The shop or restaurant catches my eye across the way. It’s raining on a quiet street in Kyoto at night. The lights glow behind the windows and in the red globe under the eaves.
Read articleFarming takes center stage at Hubbard Hall
“The sky getting darker, and you still working to the last sunlight.” Daniel Salzer conjures a summer night in a barn after a long day, as though he is taking in the smells of warm wood and cows, diesel from the tractor and a sweetness from second-cut hay.
Read articleI believe: A manifesto for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
A friend of mine created a workshop where people could build manifestos. A manifesto is a public declaration of intention — in other words: I have a dream.
Read articleMCLA women take on Shakespeare’s Henry V with an all-women cast
An all-women cast performs Shakespeare’s Henry V and relishes the freedom it brings them at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams.
Read articleMarchers fill the street at the Four Freedoms Rally (By the Way column)
We are standing in a crowd outside the First Church of Christ in Park Square. I have never seen so many people in downtown Pittsfield outside of a street festival … On a Saturday afternoon in January 2017, some 2,000 people marched up North Street in a rally with the Four Freedoms Coalition.
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