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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We’re gathering summer rhythm together (#this weekend)
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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Memorial Day brings Solid Sound and fluid color
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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Exploring country roads in lilac time
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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How can women stand together now?
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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Writing behind the scenes — Why talking matters
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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Williams students celebrate the life of Paula Buxbaum
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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Wild Soul River brings healing into Williamstown
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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Five writers share vibrant works from Berkshire residency
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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Iman Habibi shapes new music (July 28 newsletter)
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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