Today students read graphic novels and James Baldwin. They follow the music in his novels, and then they write their own songs. They dance to marimba and jembe drums …
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Kids find winter wellness at Sage Street Mill
The Sage Street Mill in North Bennington expands their newest program for kids, a Winter Wellness day camp with an art studio and trails.
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Wallasauce creates fashion for the future
On the top floor of the Beaver Mill, Sarah DeFusco and Andrew Casteel are working in a room full of cloth. They are becoming known for their colorful crazy-quilt clothing — together they’re Wallasauce.
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Williams students celebrate the life of Paula Buxbaum
Bux Vintage has been a stop for Williams students on any walk down Spring Street since Paula Buxbaum opened her shop in late spring of 2021.
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Indigenous artists alloy lands and stories at the Forge
In Mohican, Heather Bruegl says, the shape of the language shows one person thinking of another. Between you and I, you come first. She is remembering storyteller and linguist Brock Schreiber, as he spoke at the Forge Project just over the ridge in the Taconics.
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Multimedia and film explore the changing Arctic
Allison Maria Rodriguez was floating in salt water that can have ice floes at this time of year, but she was there in the six weeks of summer, in the brief thaw …
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Miata Edoga sustains creative entrepreneurs
Miata Edoga is helping people to create a sustainable life in an uncertain world. She teaches creative entrepreneurs, and in the pandemic she sees those skills becoming vital — for everyone.
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New local shops spring up in North Adams
I keep hearing about new places in North Adams lately — offering everything from baked goods to books to begonias — so I’m taking a walk through town.
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The Making of Rites of Passage
The room is full of plants, densely cascading green fronds and overlapping leaves and fowers floating in a wide clay bowl, and Pooja Prema stretches out with stems around her …
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Celebrating Halloween on cold fall nights (Oct 27 newsletter)
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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