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Kate Abbott
Grammy-winning Zydeco musician Terrance Ximien performs on piano accordion in his Fulani hat from Mali, laughing in purple light.
Photo by James Dean
Music

Terrance Simien swings with Zydeco on Junteenth

June 15, 2022
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The washboard is flicking a quick carrying beat that shakes through you and pulls you to your feet — the accordion is rocking warm, and a low voice coasts over it, laughing …

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Apple trees bloom at Hilltop Orchards in Richmond.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

Rachel E. Gross maps the universe of women’s bodies

May 11, 2022
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‘There are parts of your own body less known than the bottom of the ocean or the surface of mars’ — if you’re a woman ...

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Daffodils gleam in the sun at the annual Naumkeag tulip and daffodil festival.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Community

How can women stand together now?

May 5, 2022
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I am watching the rain and trying to understand how to write to you today. How can I talk with you about spring gardens and baby animals when the country is debating whether I and 166 million women should have the right to live full, strong lives — should have the right to live?

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Kid goats curl up together in a patch of sun at Hancock Shaker Village.
Photo by Kate Abbott
History

Kids and lambs meet at the Shaker Village

May 4, 2022
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The barn is different on a spring night. Calves lie in the hay like deer in the undergrowth. Lambs sleep on their mother’s backs, and sometimes a chicken will join them for the warmth. …

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Easter eggs dyed with onion skin show light patterns of leaves against deep red and gold color.
Photo by Somewhere in the World Today
Holidays

What hatches from an Easter egg?

April 14, 2022
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What hatches from an Easter egg? Looking through some old stories, I found a question I’d asked ten years ago in my Berkshires Week days …

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A Seder table catches the evening light on a silver tray.
Photo by Eden Hensley Silverstein
Community

Passover stories invite spring transformations

April 13, 2022
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We opened a door into a spring night. I remember, years ago now, a cup of water, a glass of wine and places waiting for whoever walked in. …

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Tendai Muparutsa, leader of the Zambezi Marimba Band, is an internationally known performer and ethnomusicologist. Press photo courtesy of Williams College
Williams College
Music

Close your eyes and feel the music

March 1, 2022
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Glad rhythms — how can I describe the sound for you? Eight marimbas are cascading tones like summer rain. Within a few beats, most of the audience is on their feet.

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Andy Wrba and Berkshire musicians perform Monday night jazz at Mission Tapas. Photo courtesy of Love Pittsfield and 10x10
Andy Wrba / Love Pittsfield
Community

We’re thawing into winter festivals

February 17, 2022
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The crowd was spilling onto the sidewalk, and a young man I’d never met came up to tell me how to say the name of the Polish poet I’d just been reading aloud …

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Doug Harris Maya Loren Jackson laugh together in Barrington Stage's annual 10x10 festival of 10 new short plays. Press photo courtesy of BSC
Photo Emma Rothenberg-Ware
Visual Arts

10×10 Festival

February 15, 2022
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The city in the hills is at play. The annual 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival is in town, and you can watch a new play or an ice sculptor, listen to music and slide though the snow …

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Light and cloud dapple a dawn sky above a bridge in Harlem, N.Y.
Photo by Ryan Hallock
Visual Arts

James Van der Zee envisions the Harlem Renaissance

February 14, 2022
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Near his photography studio in Harlem, James Van Der Zee could have heard Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey sing the blues …

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