Printmaker Leni Fried and metalworker Michael Augspurger are growing the Old Stone Mill in Adams as a Zero Waste Maker Space.
Read articleHolidays come in all seasons in the Berkshires, fron new year to spring to high summer to fall leaves, in community celebrations and downtown festivals.
Time turns in the season of ghosts and pumpkins — #Berkshireweekend
The world is turning bare in the sunlight. A few days ago the temperature fell below freezing, and the hillsides changed shape overnight. Time is turning …
Read articleHalloween gleams in the Berkshires
What does trick-or-treating look like in the mountains? The night smells of fall, pumpkins, apples and chocolate …
Read articleOn Halloween candle makers light a flame in the dark
A small flame in a wide, dark night has magic in it. When the sun sets early and the wind blows down from Canada, we still light them. And in this season I’m wondering who the Berkshires still makes them.
Read articleWhere to catch falling leaves in the sun — #Berkshireweekend
My nephew asks me why I don’t live in California. He’s three years old, and he means he’d like to see me, and I’d like to see him too. But how can I explain to someone on the West Coast why I live here?
Read articleMagical mystery tours are waiting to take you away (#berkshireweekend)
A luna moth made out of firelight is glimmering in the leaves. Jack o-lanterns hang like lanterns, carved with petals and wings …
Read articleSunny fall days comfort us with apples (#Berkshireweekend)
Some of us picked up bags of apples from Lakeview Orchard — Macouns, Honeycrisps, Cortlands — and some were setting up in a friend’s kitchen …
Read articleLakeview Orchard beckons in apple time
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 …
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. …
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