On a spring night in Bloomington, Indiana, Ross Gay is planting young lettuces. Winter has hung on so long, a warm evening feels new — to stand barefoot in a troweled furrow with the air smelling of earth and stems, and peels in the compost pile.
Read articleForklift and Williams College Dining Services choreograph a dance
As a community they have come from many parts of the world. They come in to work late at night, in the small hours and the early morning, and in a week they may cook more than 15,000 meals. And one winter they danced. In February 2017, Forklift Danceworks, the […]
Read articleThom Smith searches for spring wildflowers
Ever wish that you were first name friends with the wildflowers that begin coming up in April and fill the woods with color in May? This short stretch of spring is a season of its own — in these short weeks while the spring sun warms the soil, and light reaches […]
Read articleNational Book Awardwinning poet Louise Glück reads from ‘Faithful and Virtuous Night’
Louise Glück has earned many of the country’s and the world’s highest honors in poetry. National Poet Laureate. Nobel. She won the Pulitzer Prize for ‘The Wild Iris’ in 1992 — and she wrote it here on Southworth Street.
Read articleA collage shows the first statewide Artweek festival in images
Get behind the scenes, get muddy, get up close to paper and paint and clay. ArtWeek crossed the state to the Berkshires in April and May 2018 with dozens of events, most of them free …
Read articleArtweek festival crosses Massachusetts and the Berkshires
The Germans called them the Night Witches. In World War II they flew planes made mostly of wood and canvas at night, without parachutes or radios. They were a Russian regiment, a few hundred women as young as 17. In 1941, the Soviet air force became the first in the […]
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