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The sun sets over the valley below Naumkeag in Stockbridge.

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Berkshire Mosaic

Photo by Kate Abbott

Berkshire 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.

Poinsettias glow in the greenhouse at Naumkeag in Winterlights.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Berkshire Mosaic

La Navidadeña honors Mary’s travels

December 21, 2022
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For nine days before Christmas, throughout Latin America, families are celebrating la novena navidadeña — the travels of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem.

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Satyana Ananda stands in the wintr fields beside a stone cairn at Starseed, her sanctuary in Savoy.
Photo by Siobhan Connally
Berkshire Mosaic

Starseed sanctuary in Savoy sows light

December 16, 2022
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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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A closeup shows a child's hand on an iron railing. Creative Commons courtesy photo.
Photo by Ivan Radic
Berkshire Mosaic

Berkshire Mosaics: Storytellers draw the world together

November 4, 2020
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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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