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Kate Abbott
Tall purple salvia are blooming in the pollinator garden at Caretaker Farm in Williamstown.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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What does it take to surprise you with pleasure? (#this weekend)

June 10, 2022
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An accordion player started to play Quebeçois reels, the kind of music I learned to play at fiddle jams 15 years ago …

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Performers in QDance Company gather in the light, in bright costumes on a darkened stage at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Press image courtesy of PS21
Photo by Herve Veronese
newsletter

We’re gathering summer rhythm together (#this weekend)

June 2, 2022
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The beat rises over a low humming note — people around me are singing, and someone behind me comes in with a rhythmic run of strings.

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Wilco's Solid Sound festival takes over Mass MoCA and North Adams every two years in June.
Photo by Kaelan Burkett
Music

Memorial Day brings Solid Sound and fluid color

May 26, 2022
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The world is warming up this week, in some ways. Summer seasons are opening, and the Solid Sound festival is coming to Mass MoCA …

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Lilac blooms at dusk along a quiet porch in Williamstown.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Exploring country roads in lilac time

May 19, 2022
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Lilac time is here now … These are the few evenings in a year when I can sit on the front steps in the evening and feel petals blow against my shoulder.

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Daffodils gleam in the sun at the annual Naumkeag tulip and daffodil festival.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Community

How can women stand together now?

May 5, 2022
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I am watching the rain and trying to understand how to write to you today. How can I talk with you about spring gardens and baby animals when the country is debating whether I and 166 million women should have the right to live full, strong lives — should have the right to live?

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Shakespeare & Company actors perform in Romeo and Juliet outdoors at the Mount in 2014. Press photo courtesy of the theater.
Photo by Kevin Sprague
Writing

Writing behind the scenes — Why talking matters

March 24, 2022
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I remember a conversation at Shakespeare & Company 20 years ago. They were two stage veterans talking with a cub journalist from the local weekly … and they got off script. They let the talk move between us into their own lives.

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A mannequin wears a red velvet dress in the Bux Vintage window on Spring Street.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Community

Williams students celebrate the life of Paula Buxbaum

November 30, 2021
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Bux Vintage has been a stop for Williams students on any walk down Spring Street since Paula Buxbaum opened her shop in late spring of 2021.

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Rebecca Guanzon and justin adkins bring unique flavor and remedy in their teas and coffee
Photo by Ari Solomon
Local shops

Wild Soul River brings healing into Williamstown

September 2, 2021
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On the corner of Cole Ave and Hall Street in Williamstown, the old general store is now a gathering space and an ‘abolitionist herbal shop.’

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The Masthead writers in residence gather on the night of the reading.
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Ella Napack

Five writers share vibrant works from Berkshire residency

July 31, 2021
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Mastheads writers, four poets and a playwright, read to an intimate audience at Melville’s Arrowhead on the first evening of clear skies after the rain.

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Iranian-Canadian composer Iman Habibi brings Every Tree Speaks to Tanglewood.
Photo by David Grimmett
Music

Iman Habibi shapes new music (July 28 newsletter)

July 29, 2021
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Bright hot Saturday morning — we’re sitting under a hickory and listening to flute music. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is playing Iman Habibi’s ‘Every Tree Speaks.’

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