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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

Month:
November 2017

Kate Abbott
A puppy takes a break in the sun.
Courtesy photo by Entheta
Community

Berkshire Humane Society celebrates 25 years

November 30, 2017
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Teenagers in the Berkshire foster care system can earn the chance to spend a few hours a week with half-grown kittens or a husky mix who want a walk. And when an animal finds a home, the kids know. As the Berkshire Humane Society helps animals, it helps people, says executive […]

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Dorothy and Mark Alford's family chooses a tree at Crane Hill Tree Farm.
Photo by Susan Geller
Holidays

Where a homegrown Christmas Tree grows in the Berkshires

November 29, 2017
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While dreaming of a white Christmas, some of us consider making it greener. Christmas trees, the living kind, fresh cut locally by a family or the farm, continue a New England tradition. Christmas trees give open space for wildlife. They help cleanse the air and produce oxygen, and it’s just […]

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Turkey. Courtesy photo by Malene Thyssen
Courtesy photo by Malene Thyssen
By the Way

By the way … I’m thankful (BTW column)

November 23, 2017
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On this raw, rainy night, my brother and I came in from walking my parents’ dog down the dirt road. My mother was slicing Stamen apples, the kind my adopted grandmother liked for pies. We pulled out the drop-leaf table to its full length and hunted through cupboards for the […]

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Outdoors

Mountain Meadow on a fall morning

November 9, 2017
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Berkshire naturalist Thom Smith takes a fall walk in the northern hills. With land in Pownal Vermont and Williamstown, Massachusetts, I cannot think of a lovelier autumn walk than the preserve we call Mountain Meadow. Choose an afternoon with few clouds, when walking will be even more pleasurable if skies are […]

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By the Way

BTW A week of story — talks, songs and poems

November 2, 2017
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It was almost 70 degrees today. One of my neighbors has a morning glory in bloom over the front door. I saw it as I walked down the the river through my quiet neighborhood, taking in the jack-o-lanterns — real carved pumpkins with quizzical grins and swirling eyes and the […]

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