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 …
Read articleRachel E. Gross maps the universe of women’s bodies
‘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 ...
Read articleHow can women stand together now?
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?
Read articleKids and lambs meet at the Shaker Village
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. …
Read articleWhat hatches from an Easter egg?
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 …
Read articlePassover stories invite spring transformations
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. …
Read articleClose your eyes and feel the music
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.
Read articleWe’re thawing into winter festivals
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 …
Read article10×10 Festival
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 …
Read articleJames Van der Zee envisions the Harlem Renaissance
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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