International artist and children’s book author Leo Lionni can tell complex stories in bright strokes, as his characters question their worlds with open curiosity … and transform them.
Read articleThis 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.
Surprised by joy in winter holiday walks — #berkshireweekend
This weekend opens the season of downtown celebrations, from a music and horse-drawn wagon rides to wreaths and art and family events …
Read articleWilliamstown Holiday Walk calls spirits of past and present
When I come downtown this weekend, I’ll be looking for the kind of energy and scents and sounds can give the day a shine. Singing in the cold with the resin of fir trees ...
Read articleThankful for clear and quiet nights — #berkshireweekend
This is the season for spice and texture — evergreens and candlelight and makers gathering to show what they create by hand …
Read articleNew forest paths open at Nightwood
A web spreads overhead in the branches like sails. The strands glimmer as though they’re touched by moonlight. I’m walking up the path in Edith Wharton’s forest, in this winter’s Nightwood at the Mount. And this pathway is new. ...
Read articleGathering warmth to carry us through the winter — #berkshireweekend
Winter makers and winter harvests are coming to us this week — as the Norman Rockwell Museum opens a retrospective on internationally known illustrator Leo Leonni, the nights are warming up with music.
Read articleBaby, this is your day — It’s time to masquerade — #berkshireweekend
When did we begin this tradition on Halloween of who do you want to be? Play, have fun, you can turn into anyone tonight — a dryad in birch bark, a unicorn, any being you can imagine …
Read articleCalling all the monsters …
My old neighborhood magnetically attracts Trick-or-treaters, and by about 5 that afternoon people were showing up so often that I stopped trying to close the door and just sat on the porch in the sun ...
Read articleHalloween in the Berkshires
The season of ghosts is returning — with cornfield mazes and caramel apples, and jack-o-lanterns, and candles in the dark.
Read articleHalloween nightlife — Jack-o-lanterns and comedy — #berkshireweekend
I have to wonder what kind of shapeshifter is visiting the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show tonight. Families are talking on the garden path … and we’re surrounded by creatures made of fire.
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