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

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Community

Photo by Kate Abbott

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.

Pumpkins hang in trees like lanterns at the Naumkeag Pumpkin Walk.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Community

Magical mystery tours are waiting to take you away (#berkshireweekend)

October 13, 2022
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A luna moth made out of firelight is glimmering in the leaves. Jack o-lanterns hang like lanterns, carved with petals and wings …

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Maple trees turn brilliant red and orange and gold at Williamstown Rural Lands on Sheep Hill.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Farms

Getting out into the warm days of fall color — #berkshireweekend

October 6, 2022
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Walking across the grass, I looked for old friends gathering around the barn. They had a fire going in the fire pit and a pot of cider stat on the stones to keep hot.

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A high meadow runs along the Deerfield River.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Hikes

Hike to the Elder trees on the Mohican trail

October 5, 2022
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In the sun, a warm huge being gives me a place to rest, and I’m leaning back against a giant’s ankle. How many years has a white pine lived to grow broader than I can span even halfway?

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Cortland apples ripen on the tree at Lakeview Orchards in Lanesborough.
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Food stories

Sunny fall days comfort us with apples (#Berkshireweekend)

September 30, 2022
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Some of us picked up bags of apples from Lakeview Orchard — Macouns, Honeycrisps, Cortlands — and some were setting up in a friend’s kitchen …

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Lakeview Orchard stretches across the hillside looking out across the valley
Photo by Kate Abbott
Food stories

Lakeview Orchard beckons in apple time

September 29, 2022
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On a sunny Saturday when the afternoon stretched clear ahead of me, I headed up to Lakeview Orchards when apple season was just coming in …

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A raku vessel made by Donna Bernstein, a ceramics artist at the Clay Cottage gallery and studio, sits on a patio in the sun. Press photo courtesy of the artist
Photo from Donna Bernstein
Visual Arts

Studios open and kilns and conversations – #berkshiresweekend

September 16, 2022
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In the next week we can make paper out of old jeans, or see a potter lift the top off a raku kiln while the bowls inside are glowing like molten glass … Artsweek Berkshires is coming back.

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A Black woman listens to music, her eyes closed and her head back in bliss, in Noa Denmon's illustration. Press image courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum
Art by Noa Denmon
Visual Arts

‘Imprinted’ honors BIPOC artists and histories and futures

September 15, 2022
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Imprinted at the Norman Rockwell Museum honors contemporary BIPOC artists and considers representations of Black, Indigenous, people of color in America across 400 years.

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Scarlet runner beans bloom on a sculpture made by the internationally recognized Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak.
Sculpture by Pinaree Sanpitak
Visual Arts

Global artists imagine Shaker sisters’ lives

September 7, 2022
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Women worked here. Women lived here. When I walk through the Shaker kitchen, looking for Pinaree Sanpitak’s sculptures, I feel that in new ways.

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Golden rod blooms across the meadows at Thomas Palmer preserve.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Catching the golden hours of summer – #Berkshireweekend

August 25, 2022
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Sweet corn and peaches … the flavors mean late summer. We have a good month more of warm weather, but we feel the year begin to turn when the golden rod shows in the meadows.

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The gardens bloom at Hancock Shaker Village in late summer.
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Visual Arts

You were only waiting for this moment to be free — #Berkshireweekend

August 18, 2022
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In the heart of a Shaker garden, Pinaree Sanpitak has made an affirmation of life and force in a woman’s body and a Buddhist sacred space.

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