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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Halloween

Kate Abbott
A Berkshire family paints pumpkins at a Halloween event at the Mount.
Photo by Susan Geller
Halloween

Time turns in the season of ghosts and pumpkins — #Berkshireweekend

October 27, 2022
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The world is turning bare in the sunlight. A few days ago the temperature fell below freezing, and the hillsides changed shape overnight. Time is turning …

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A Berkshire family paints pumpkins at a Halloween event at the Mount.
Photo by Susan Geller
Halloween

Halloween gleams in the Berkshires

October 24, 2022
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What does trick-or-treating look like in the mountains? The night smells of fall, pumpkins, apples and chocolate …

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A candle burns in the dark. Creative Commons courtesy photo
Photo by Luca Casartelli
Halloween

On Halloween candle makers light a flame in the dark

October 24, 2022
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A small flame in a wide, dark night has magic in it. When the sun sets early and the wind blows down from Canada, we still light them. And in this season I’m wondering who the Berkshires still makes them.

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Pumpkins hang in trees like lanterns at the Naumkeag Pumpkin Walk.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Magical mystery tours are waiting to take you away (#berkshireweekend)

October 13, 2022
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A luna moth made out of firelight is glimmering in the leaves. Jack o-lanterns hang like lanterns, carved with petals and wings …

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Cortland apples ripen on the tree at Lakeview Orchards in Lanesborough.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Food stories

Sunny fall days comfort us with apples (#Berkshireweekend)

September 30, 2022
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Some of us picked up bags of apples from Lakeview Orchard — Macouns, Honeycrisps, Cortlands — and some were setting up in a friend’s kitchen …

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Lakeview Orchard stretches across the hillside looking out across the valley
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Lakeview Orchard beckons in apple time

September 29, 2022
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On a sunny Saturday when the afternoon stretched clear ahead of me, I headed up to Lakeview Orchards when apple season was just coming in …

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A Berkshire family paints pumpkins at a Halloween event at the Mount.
Photo by Susan Geller
Halloween

Halloween revives in the Berkshires

October 28, 2021
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What does trick-or-treating look like in the mountains — and Halloween in a pandemic? The night smells and tastes of fall, pumpkins, apples and chocolate. Take a look at this week’s events …

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Pumpkins and gourds gleam in the sun at Wild Oats Co-op Market in Williamstown.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Halloween

Celebrating Halloween on cold fall nights — #berkshireweekend

October 28, 2021
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In a break in the storm, I’m sitting in the dooryard, on the driveway, clearing the rinds from black walnuts. It’s not the way I thought I’d be coming into Halloween week … but it’s satisfying.

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Amy DiLalla's jewelry at IS183. Press photo courtesy of IS183.
Amy DiLalla
Winter holidays

IS183 lifts artists in virtual holiday market

December 11, 2020
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Blue marbled cups and sunset in canyon country, beads of polished wood … IS183 Art School of the Berkshires is creating a virtual holiday market for artists in the region with Mill Town Capital, through December 11.

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Jack-o-lanterns glow in the annual Pumpkin Walk at Naumkeag.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Halloween

Halloween gleams at the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show

October 31, 2020
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Jack-o-lanterns glimmer at the Naumkeag pumpkin show, carved with fantastic shapes — dragons and sea creatures, owls and octopuses … 

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