Artists have come to the Berkshires in the footsteps of James Weldon Johnson, an internationally known poet, writer and politician with influence from the Harlem Renaissance to the U.S. Congress.
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.
Spring in the Berkshires
Have you ever felt a chick scrabble in your hair ... or a day-old kid rest tiny feet on your knee, still soft and slender as your thumb? BTW Berkshires is exploring Western Mass. as the season warms up ...
Read articleRoots and uprooting meet at MCLA
Nationally and internationally acclaimed artists Lorena Molina, Larissa Rogers and Jumana Manna, have come together in Unfortunately It Was Paradise at MCLA’s Gallery 51.
Read articleInterwoven roots of spring holidays — #berkshireweekend
This weekend is named for a woman. In the mind of a man who lived and wrote near the Scots border 1500 years ago … Easter is a woman who dances, a woman shining with the dawn.
Read articleChases, escapes, true love, miracles … — #berkshireweekend
Libraries have always been magic for me. You walk into a room full of stories, Sunlit, quiet, warmed with a background hum of voices.
Read articleWilliamstown library opens celebration of 150 years
In 1894 the first book in the handwritten shelf list is Walt Whitman, poems like Leaves of Grass. In 1874, you might have been more likely to find Edmund Morris’ Ten Acres Enough.’ … When the Williamstown public library first opened to the town, it began with a collection of 100 agricultural books in a corner of H. Cole’s General Store.
Read articleDaf Moby project immerses in Melville — one page a day
Last fall, on Rosh Hashanah, Williams College professors Jeffrey Israel and Edan Dekel began reading Moby-Dick together … and they have found the experience transformative.
Read articleWCMA maps the Unfinished Project of Liberation
From many perspectives, internationally acclaimed artists are looking closely at the roots of the nation’s ideas of freedom, and how they play out in the 21st century.
Read article10×10 Festival
The city in the hills is at play. The annual 10×10 Festival is in town, and you can watch a new play or dance to Afro-Cuban rhythms, try a new microbrew or listen to jazz, or walk in the winter sun ...
Read articleFinding places where we belong — #berkshireweekend
We have ways of moving in and out of each other’s spaces, a friend tells me. We’re driving back roads through the hilltowns in the dusk, and we’re talking about how people in this country live together.
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