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Winterberry glows in the sun at Windy Hill Orchard in Great Barrington.

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This 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.

Paperwhites fill the greenhouse with petals and scent at Winterlights at Naumkeag.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Festivals of lights

December 7, 2022
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Holidays return in the Berkshires — even in an uncertain year, we can find music and storytelling and lights in the dark, and an energy in local places …

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A solo rider coasts down EJ Hill's Brake Run Helix in Building 5 at Mass MoCA. Press image courtesy of Mass MoCA
Photo by Kaelan Burkett
Visual Arts

EJ Hill’s Brake Run Helix spins toward exultation

December 7, 2022
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The solo rider in the single cart drops a full story in a rush, lifting both arms and shouting, and the cart slues into a wide arc. Los Angeles artist EJ Hill has created an art installation out of terror and delight.

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A Black man plays the cello softly as a woman leans on his shoulder at dusk, in a photograph in Lorenzo Baker's new work at MCLA. Press image courtesy of the artist
Lorenzo Baker
Visual Arts

New Orleans poets inspire North Adams art

December 7, 2022
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Los Angeles artist Lorenzo Baker sets a man and woman resting together, and a collective of Black poets from 1845, at the center of his new installation with MCLA’s Art Lab.

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Black boys ride in an open convertible, looking out at the highway and the landscape, in a collage of vivid color and palm trees. Press image courtesy of the artist
Artwork by Lorenzo Baker
Visual Arts

Lorenzo Baker collages the past and future

December 7, 2022
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Los Angeles artist Lorenzo Baker is exploring the richness of human experience and the daily lives of Black Americans in What Happens if February Never Ends?

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Marcristo Farm brings vivid orange cut flowers to the Great Barrington Farmers Market even in November.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Explorations — Great Barrington in holiday season

December 2, 2022
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One day when I had a story interview in the Southern Berkshires, I came early to wander through downtown Great Barrington, looking for locally made gifts.

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An oil lamp burns along the entrance road at the Mount in NightWood.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Nightwood grows deeper into the trees

November 29, 2022
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Nightwood has transfigured the Mount again with light and sound and sculpture, and the paths have shifted since last winter.

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Winterberry glows in the sun at Windy Hill Orchard in Great Barrington.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Thankful for the mountains — #berkshireweekend

November 29, 2022
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Windy Hill Orchard grows rows of winterberry bushes every year. You can walk into a sea of scarlet higher than your head, and they’re bright even on cold, cloudy afternoons.

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Two children stand in golden light with an owl and a cat, looking toward a castle on the horizon, in Hilary Knight's illustration. Press image courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum
Hilary Knight
Visual Arts

Hilary Knight reveals hidden worlds in New York

November 22, 2022
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Hilary Knight has explored New York as an artist for more than 70 years — and at 96, he still explores the city today in his drawings and paintings. Though he is often known as the illustrator of the Eloise books, he has wandered over a wild field.

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Eloise in the books by Kay Thompson — the indomitable six-year-old girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel — relaxes in a busy library. Press image courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum
Hilary Knight
Visual Arts

Eloise in the Berkshires — A book behind the scenes

November 22, 2022
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Eloise has come to the Norman Rockwell Museum with visions of New York — a look into the mind of the artist who brought her to life.

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Moss grows on a fallen log in the Ice Glen in Stockbridge.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Hikes

Fresh bread on rainy mornings – #berkshireweekend

November 17, 2022
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Ice Glen feels like its own world. You walk through a gap in the rock, and the land changes — steps and caves, boulders covered with moss and fern.

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