When I come downtown this weekend, I’ll be looking for the kind of energy and scents and sounds can give the day a shine. Singing in the cold with the resin of fir trees ...
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.
Thankful for clear and quiet nights — #berkshireweekend
This is the season for spice and texture — evergreens and candlelight and makers gathering to show what they create by hand …
Read articleNew forest paths open at Nightwood
A web spreads overhead in the branches like sails. The strands glimmer as though they’re touched by moonlight. I’m walking up the path in Edith Wharton’s forest, in this winter’s Nightwood at the Mount. And this pathway is new. ...
Read articleGathering warmth to carry us through the winter — #berkshireweekend
Winter makers and winter harvests are coming to us this week — as the Norman Rockwell Museum opens a retrospective on internationally known illustrator Leo Leonni, the nights are warming up with music.
Read articleBaby, this is your day — It’s time to masquerade — #berkshireweekend
When did we begin this tradition on Halloween of who do you want to be? Play, have fun, you can turn into anyone tonight — a dryad in birch bark, a unicorn, any being you can imagine …
Read articleCalling all the monsters …
My old neighborhood magnetically attracts Trick-or-treaters, and by about 5 that afternoon people were showing up so often that I stopped trying to close the door and just sat on the porch in the sun ...
Read articleHalloween in the Berkshires
The season of ghosts is returning — with cornfield mazes and caramel apples, and jack-o-lanterns, and candles in the dark.
Read articleHalloween nightlife — Jack-o-lanterns and comedy — #berkshireweekend
I have to wonder what kind of shapeshifter is visiting the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show tonight. Families are talking on the garden path … and we’re surrounded by creatures made of fire.
Read articleHands-on celebrations for Valentine week
Imagine sitting side by side with a quiet man in a slip-spattered t-shirt, in front of an electric pottery wheel. He is teaching you to center a lump of clay.
Read articleHappy New Year! — #berkshireweekend
I’m southeast of the Berkshires this week with my family for the holidays — we’re taking a walk to the pond to look for the beaver lodges or sitting by the fireplace …
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