This morning I remembered a day in July in a garden along the Housatonic River. A woman was singing in a strong, rich alto, leading a spiritual in the W.E.B. Dubois memorial garden, and we were thinking about how he felt about the town where he was born.
Read articleIndependent bookstores have a loyal following in and around the Berkshires, and they grow in an ecosystem of independent presses and local writers, writing residencies and creative centers like the Mount, Edith Wharton’s historic home in Lenox. W.E.B. DuBois, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville and Robert Frost, and Edna St. Vincent Millay and Shirley Jackson have all lived here …
The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook savors local stories
On a warm and quiet day, Elisa Spungen Bildner was sitting with Kim Wells, the farmer at East Mountain Farm in Williamstown. They had walked up into the woods where his pigs forage in summer …
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