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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Kate Abbott
Ice is skimming over the water where the Ashuwillticook rail Trail runs along Cheshire Lake.
Ashuwilticook Rail Trail / Photo by Kate Abbott
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The center can hold (January 6 newsletter)

January 7, 2021
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Tonight while a mob is attacking government buildings, while I am sitting safe by the fire at the foot of a mountain in a town where I know college students have been threatened a mile away and somehow stood tall and gone on, I am reading Danusha Lameris’ poems for the first time.

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In Trinh Mai's diptych 'When We Became Trees,' a husband and wife find quiet in a garden in Southern California.
Trinh Mai
Visual Arts

Unison stronger than fission: Poetry and art hold a light in hard times

December 22, 2020
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Artist Trinh Mai and poet Shann Ray have created a book of words and paintings probing a world where the beauty of high canyons and loving relationships can exist at the same time as fission and division.

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Domed sculptures gleam in the Italian Garden at the Mount in NightWood.
NightWood / Photo by Kate Abbott
Holidays

NightWood turns the Mount into a new world

November 22, 2020
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This winter, the Mount will transform Edith Wharton’s gardens and grounds with NightWood, a landscape of mystery and fantasy, doors into other worlds, journey and night.

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The Hoosic River runs through golden maple trees in Williamstown on a fall afternoon.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Theater

The Mohican nation honors their homeland with WAM Theatre

November 22, 2020
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Heather Bruegl imagines Mohican people telling Mohican stories and histories, on Mohican land. She is the cultural affairs director for the Stockbridge Munsee community of the Mohican Nation, and she talks with me, and with WAM Theatre, as they prepare for this weekend’s performance of ‘The Thanksgiving Play.’

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An oil lamp burns along the entrance road at the Mount in NightWood.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Holidays

NightWood transforms the Mount (November 18 newsletter)

November 19, 2020
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Torches flicker in a long curve into the darkness — a quarter-mile of oil lamps lighting the road. The Mount is a new place tonight. Firelight lines the path between the pine trees, and a bass beat begins to rise …

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A hand turns the pages of an open book. Creative Commons courtesy photo.
Photo by Kamil Porembiński
Writing

Acclaimed writer Danielle Evans navigates grief and strength

November 16, 2020
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On a fall evening, acclaimed writer Danielle Evans is talking about her newest book with a clear eye and compassion, humor and deep sadness.

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Maple and birch trees gleam along the overlook above the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

It’s all about soul (October 21 newsletter)

October 21, 2020
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I was looking for a trail head on Bee Hill Road when I stumbled on the overlook above Williamstown Rural Lands, and the hillside was bright in the sun.

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Apple trees bear a bright harvest at Chesterwood.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

Live poets at Chesterwood feel the pull of current change

October 14, 2020
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In these short weeks before the election, Western Massachusetts poets come together at the historic home and studio of the sculptor of the Lincoln memorial, to share work that feels relevant to this time and in that place.

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Joy Harjo, 23rd United States Poet Laureate, will read her work virtually at Bennington College. Press photo courtesy of Bennington College.
Photo by Matika Wilbur
Writing

Joy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier share loss and strength in poetry

October 7, 2020
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Surrounded by the crumbling world, women begin to sing. The world as they’ve known it has ended, and yet there is movement, and growth, and the promise of new life.

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A maple tree in Lenox turns deep orange and gold in the fall.
Photo by Kate Abbott
By the Way

John Steinbeck calls attention to fall color on the back roads

September 30, 2020
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If I could be anywhere in the world today, I’d be here. I might be here in 1960, when John Steinbeck drove through with Charley (his dog) in the cab of his truck.

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