We’re running on election time now. Early voting has brought people to town hall, and the polls open on Tuesday. Today I’m digging into contested races and questions on our ballot.
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Land holds stories from Caretaker Farm to Grace Greylock Niles
Dusk is falling in the peace garden. I’m sitting under the maple tree and looking across fields I’ve walked for more than half my life.
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What it means for all of us to live safe and free
I can hardly imagine how it would feel, to live with the constant fear that everything can vanish … at any moment someone can take your job, or the apartment you’re sharing with a friend. Or your freedom. Or the lives of people you love.
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Sunset and golden fall touch Mount Greylock — #BTWnortheast
We walked up the meadow in sunset light. Cloud swept the sky toward the horizon, and the sun gathered an intense gleam on the hem. How long had it been since either of us came up Mount Greylock?
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In a digital age — independent bookstores are growing
Locally owned bookstores are nurturing community, say the owners of Battenkill Books and the Chatham Bookstore — and across the country, against the odds, the number of independent bookstores is rising exponentially.
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For books and writers who stand and speak — #BTWNortheast
In Banned Books Week, I remember Layli Longsoldier — I’ve heard her words at an open mic on a night as warm as this one. She describes a scene in a place near here: a censoring.
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Apples are ripening at the equinox — #BTWNortheast
We were curving along Route 2 past Apex Orchards this week, and the signs for apple picking are out. The season is turning somehow, from husk cherries and plum tomatoes to crisp air and sweet fruit.
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Soaking in the last warm days of summer — #BTWNortheast
For all the conversations I’ve had over the years, with naturalists and conservationists, biologists and ecologists and neighbors who love wildflowers, I don’t know how it would feel to walk through an old-growth forest on the slope above my house.
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Unfiltered prints on handmade paper — Gloria Calderon-Saenz and Alicia Canary
A gourd glimmers with light and shadow. Gloria Calderon-Saenz has printed it in curves, in a red brown the color of rich earth on paper Alicia Canary has made, in a new show at Futures Lab.
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Imagining a wild garden with native plants — #BTWNortheast
The lobelia have opened in tall clusters of deep fall sky blue. The flowers have throats striped indigo and white, and the petals fan out, one lifted like an arbor and three held out like cupped hands.
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