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 …
Read articleHalloween gleams in the Berkshires
What does trick-or-treating look like in the mountains? The night smells of fall, pumpkins, apples and chocolate …
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On Halloween candle makers light a flame in the dark
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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Magical mystery tours are waiting to take you away (#berkshireweekend)
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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Sunny fall days comfort us with apples (#Berkshireweekend)
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 beckons in apple time
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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Halloween revives in the Berkshires
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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Celebrating Halloween on cold fall nights — #berkshireweekend
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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IS183 lifts artists in virtual holiday market
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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Halloween gleams at the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show
Jack-o-lanterns glimmer at the Naumkeag pumpkin show, carved with fantastic shapes — dragons and sea creatures, owls and octopuses …
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