The eggs come from a farm stand smaller than a chicken coop, and I almost missed it. The sign caught me as I was bowling south down Route 7 — shagbark hickory syrup …
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Color prints fill the senses from Japan to France
Mary Cassatt brings an Intaglio color print into Hue and Cry, the Clark Art Institute’s newest winter show, inspired by Japanese artists and woodblock-prints.
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Africana Studies grow at Williams across 50 years
Today students read graphic novels and James Baldwin. They follow the music in his novels, and then they write their own songs. They dance to marimba and jembe drums …
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Kids find winter wellness at Sage Street Mill
The Sage Street Mill in North Bennington expands their newest program for kids, a Winter Wellness day camp with an art studio and trails.
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Chestnuts are roasting — over the river and through the woods
I’ve never cracked a hard-boiled egg on my dashboard before … The whole day has been like this, zany and surprising. We’re picnicking in my car in unexpected sun, eating with our fingers, in the middle of an expedition.
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Color and light kindle in the cold (December 8 newsletter)
In a weekend of holiday walks, I was wandering around in the flow of the North Adams farmers market, and I found Full Well Farm for the first time.
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Wallasauce creates fashion for the future
On the top floor of the Beaver Mill, Sarah DeFusco and Andrew Casteel are working in a room full of cloth. They are becoming known for their colorful crazy-quilt clothing — together they’re Wallasauce.
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‘Snowflake Bentley’ inspires contemporary makers
Ice crystals form like stars in fractal patterns. They take shape too small for human eyes to see… and here in a museum gallery on a winter night they catch echoes in quartz and silver, abstraction and calligraphy ….
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Winter holidays return to the Berkshires
A sip tastes like caramel, but deeper and not overpoweringly sweet, and it’s warm in the back of the throat. It’s color is lighter than amber and darker than gold, almost the color of late oak leaves … Holidays are returning in the Berkshires — even in an uncertain year we can find music and storytelling, light in the dark and energy in local places.
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Thankful for handmade improvisation (November 24 newsletter)
I was at WallaSauce in the Beaver Mill, in a room full of bright cloth, and then at the Bennington Museum in a show inspired by snow …
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