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A family takes in Spring Street at the annual Williamstown Holiday Walk. Photo courtesy of the Williamstown Chamber of Commerce

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Winter holidays

Williamstown Chamber

The Berkshires celebrates all the holidays of light in long nights — Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice and the new year …

A Carolina Wren perches on a weathered branch. Public Domain image from Shenandoah National Park.
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An unexpected lift on a rainy morning (January 5 newsletter)

January 6, 2022
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A wren is sitting just outside the window. She’s out in the wet and so close to the clapboards we can see her feathers puffed out to keep warm.

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Sunlight glints on moe than a foot of snow along the Hoosac River.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

First steps into the new year (December 29 newsletter)

December 30, 2021
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I’m with family this week, writing this by the lights on the concolor fir tree while we’re baking Santa Lucia rolls for a friend’s birthday …

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Santa Lucia rolls take on a golden shade from the saffron in the dough.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Happy holidays! (December 22 newsletter)

December 23, 2021
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This month has been full of gifts already. I walk into Chocolate Springs one afternoon just as Joshua Needleman is making chocolate peppermint bonbons, and he offers me a taste …

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A candle burns in a dark room, touching off gleams of red.
Photo by Ozzy Delaney
Winter holidays

Wishing you joy and Wassail (December 15 newsletter)

December 15, 2021
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Imagine gathering around an apple tree at night. The trees are wet and starred with early snow. You stand around a bonfire, and people are singing under the full moon …

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Hand-carved wooden flutes rest side by side. Creative Commons cuortesy photo
Photo by All Things Colorful
Winter holidays

Contradance and caroling share a living holiday music

December 15, 2021
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On the floor, one man with a fiddle had the whole room in his hand. People danced in each other's arms, and I had walked out of the snow into the music ...

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Big River Chestnuts opened a farm stand in Sunderland for the holidays with fresh and roasted chestnuts and more.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Chestnuts are roasting — over the river and through the woods

December 13, 2021
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I’ve never cracked a hard-boiled egg on my dashboard before … The whole day has been like this, zany and surprising. We’re picnicking in my car in unexpected sun, eating with our fingers, in the middle of an expedition.

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A Reindog makes friends at the annual Reindog Parade at the annual Williamstown Holiday Walk. Photo courtesy of the Williamstown Chamber of Commerce
Williamstown Holiday Walk
Winter holidays

Color and light kindle in the cold (December 8 newsletter)

December 9, 2021
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In a weekend of holiday walks, I was wandering around in the flow of the North Adams farmers market, and I found Full Well Farm for the first time.

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Sarah DeFusco and Andrew (Kirby) Casteel wear the bright upcycled patchwork clothing they make through their North Adams clothing brand, Wallasauce. Press image courtesy of the artists.
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Winter holidays

Wallasauce creates fashion for the future

December 8, 2021
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On the top floor of the Beaver Mill, Sarah DeFusco and Andrew Casteel are working in a room full of cloth. They are becoming known for their colorful crazy-quilt clothing — together they’re Wallasauce.

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A red ornament glows with starry light in the candycane forest in Winterlights at Naumkeag.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Winterlights dance in the dark at Naumkeag

December 7, 2021
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It’s full moon, and I’m walking up the old road across the fields, so I can see the hill above me … glowing red and gold. Naumkeag in Winterlights is bright as penny candy.

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Leslie Parke's Fall Frost turns ice on glass into abstract patterns of light and color. Press image courtesy of Bennington Museum
Photo by Leslie Parke
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‘Snowflake Bentley’ inspires contemporary makers

December 6, 2021
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Ice crystals form like stars in fractal patterns. They take shape too small for human eyes to see… and here in a museum gallery on a winter night they catch echoes in quartz and silver, abstraction and calligraphy ….

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