Chocolate cherry ice cream — this is new. The cream comes from here, from High Lawn Farm. The ice cream stand opened four years ago, but according to a flier as I pick up my cone, the dairy farm has just celebrated their 100th summer.
Read articleStone formations shapeshift on Tyringham Cobble
The sun is high — a rare afternoon in this rainy summer — and the path begins in the open, but I’ll have shade on the hill. I’m walking in the meadow at the foot of Tyringham Cobble.
Read articleHere be dragons … real ones #berkshireweekend
I met a dragon in the ruins at Ashintully. A live one — really. She’s a bearded dragon named Phoebe, and she came up with a young couple exploring the hills …
Read articleQuilting thrives with a contemporary energy
From college dorms to quilt shops, an old New England artform is alive in the Berkshires, in patterns and textures from leaves and landscapes to contemporary abstract color.
Read articleBerkshire Camino invokes a contemporary pilgrimage
As the pandemic keeps people in many countries from walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, Mindy Miraglia is launching Berkshire Camino, bringing the spirit of the quest to Lee and Lenox in a series of guided walks.
Read articleThom Smith snowshoes in the back country
Thinking back 16 years, Scott Jervas, who worked with me managing the Berkshire Museum aquarium, had an unlikely winter pastime — searching for long-closed ski areas returning to forest.
Read articleGentle snowshoe treks in the Central Berkshires
When temperatures hover around 25 degrees F, or even a bit higher, it seems only logical to take a hefty dose of cabin fever remedy — head to the woods and give the snowshoes a workout.
Read articleAbstracts and landscapes in oils and plaster gleam at Good Purpose Gallery
Surfaces shimmer like water at sunrise. The paintings are layered in color, in oils and Venetian plaster or encaustic pigments in hot beeswax. Patricia Hogan and Marcelene I. Mosca share their work, abstraction spilling into landscape, cityscape and motion, in Two Perspectives, a new exhibit at the Good Purpose Gallery of […]
Read articleAshintully’s Gilded Age ruins shelter a garden on a Hill
Four standing Doric columns are holding up the sky. They mark the site of Ashintully, the last remains of a Georgian-style mansion lost to fire in 1952. The columns guarded the entrance to a 35-room turn-of-the-20th-century “Berkshire Cottage.” Now the serenity of the view of brilliant white columns along the shore […]
Read articleBerkshire farms churn ice cream with local flavors
After enjoying a delicious meal in a restaurant, some patrons ask to meet the chef. At Maple Valley Creamery, ice cream and dairy lovers ask to meet the cows.
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