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Winterberry glows in the sun at Windy Hill Orchard in Great Barrington.

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This place is a living ecosystem of people and places and ideas, and this broad category brings together their stories — you may find stories of healing, teaching, celebrating, taking care of people and the land, reaching out to many parts of the world and feeling the roots of this one, in the past, present and future.

Carnitas from Placita Latina in Pittsfield, filled with pork and cilangro and salsa verde, offer warmth on a cold morning.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Tibetan art and tacos in the snow — #Berkshireweekend

March 3, 2023
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It must be March. One day I’m braving the wind on North Street for tacos from Placita Latina, and the next I’m walking across a hayfield in the snow …

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Marie-Dolma Chophel's abstract painting Inner Dialog pulses with elemental color in blues and greens, amber and dun. Press photo courtesy of WCMA, taken by Kate Abbott
Marie-Dolma Chophel
Visual Arts

Contemporary Tibetan voices navigate ‘Across Shared Waters’

March 2, 2023
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Marie-Dolma Chophel’s 'Inner Dialog' holds me still as I navigate the new show of contemporary and traditional Tibetan paintings, photographs, sculpture and collage at the Williams College Museum of Art.

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Lama Tashi Norbu
Visual Arts

Lama Tashi Norbu imagines links in spacetime

March 2, 2023
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Lama Tashi Norbu forms a contemporary collage of bright color in paint and wood, and in the petals he sees a gulf and a bridge between worlds.

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Steve Robinson looks out over his family's land at Sunny Banks Ranch in Becket. Press photo courtesy of the Eagle
Photo by Caroline Bonnivier Snyder
Berkshire Mosaic

Sunny Banks Ranch keeps visions alive

March 1, 2023
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Bill Robinson and his son, Steve, work a 200-acre ranch in Becket. Clad in thick rubber boots, jeans and a plaid shirt, Steve was outside working near the stables and looked every bit the part of a cowboy.

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From left, Doug Williams and Richard Roth share conversation during a potluck in Sheffield for "Queer Men of the Berkshires," on Sunday February 12, 2023.
Photo by Gillian Jones / Eagle
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Q-Mob affirms queer community and connection

February 22, 2023
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In a new year and an emergence of social activity after the peak of fear and isolation in Covid, a new community is taking root in Great Barrington — Q-Mob, Queer Men of the Berkshires.

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Q-Mob's hiking group stands on the shore of Lake Benedict in Beartown State Forest.
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Q-Mob explores Berkshire arts with a queer lens

February 21, 2023
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A new community of friends is looking for stories like these and encouraging the telling. Tom Truss and Bart Church have helped to found a new affinity group in Great Barrington, Queer Men of the Berkshires. And among their friendly activities, a group is forming to explore the arts.

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Beer mugs stand on a wooden counter by a softly lit window.
Photo by Wagner T. Cassimiro
Community

Raise a glass to freedom and friendship — #Berkshireweekend

February 16, 2023
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On the eve of the first 10×10 Festival, 11 years ago, I wrote a question — with a Smartphone and inside knowledge, what kind of film would I make about Pittsfield?

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A workshop throws clay on pottery wheels at Berkshire Arts Center. Press image courtesy of the BAC
Berkshire Arts Center
Visual Arts

Hands-on celebrations for Valentine week

February 15, 2023
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Imagine sitting side by side with a quiet man in a slip-spattered t-shirt, in front of an electric pottery wheel. He is teaching you to center a lump of clay.

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A closeup image shows the Buddha in a traditional Tibetan Thangka at the Williams College Museum of Art. Press photo courtesy of WCMA from the Jack Shear Collection
Williams College Museum of Art
Visual Arts

Tibetan artists talk through time — Across Shared Waters

February 8, 2023
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A new exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art will gather traditional Thangka paintings and contemporary Tibetan artists from around the world.

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Mountain Meadow gleams in the sun after an early snowfall.
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Happy New Year! — #berkshireweekend

January 5, 2023
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I’m southeast of the Berkshires this week with my family for the holidays — we’re taking a walk to the pond to look for the beaver lodges or sitting by the fireplace …

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