For nine days before Christmas, throughout Latin America, families are celebrating la novena navidadeña — the travels of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem.
Read articleBerkshire Mosaic begins in a column series Kate Abbott and Gwendolyn VanSant, chief executive officer and co-founding director of Multicultural Bridge, co-founded, when Kate was editor of Berkshires Week in the Eagle.
From Kate: In 2012 we called them On the Bridge, and we ran them for three years to lift the voices of people in the community.
Bridge has gathered them into a book as Berkshire Mosaic, and now, with permission from them and from the Eagle, I am bringing these stories here and looking to the future.
Starseed sanctuary in Savoy sows light
Satyana Ananda knows that sometimes after destruction, light returns. Sometimes a terrible thing can end in a miracle. Transformation is part of her mission as director of the Starseed Sanctuary.
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Berkshire Mosaics: Storytellers draw the world together
Eight years ago, Gwendolyn VanSant, executive director of Multicultural Bridge, and writer and journalist Roberta McCulloch-Dews and I began a new series of community stories, and they feel timely now.
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