I’m walking the bike trail along the Hoosic river toward the Spruces park in Williamstown, and the meadows and the pollinator garden are high with wildflowers.
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Mapping wonder in West Stockbridge — #berkshireexperience
I’m looking at the bin of old maps at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge and thinking, how would I draw a map of these hills, and what would I put in? When you have an afternoon in West Stockbridge to explore, how do you find unexpected places?
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Mill Brook Sugarhouse is boiling sap in a spring day around the corner from the Roaring Brook Trail, and Irish musicians are tuning up as I explore the Southern Berkshires.
Read articleContemporary Tibetan voices navigate ‘Across Shared Waters’
Marie-Dolma Chophel’s 'Inner Dialog' holds me still as I navigate the new show of contemporary and traditional Tibetan paintings, photographs, sculpture and collage at the Williams College Museum of Art.
Read articleRaise a glass to freedom and friendship — #Berkshireweekend
On the eve of the first 10x10 Festival, 11 years ago, I wrote a question — with a Smartphone and inside knowledge, what kind of film would I make about Pittsfield?
Read articleWomen reflect across 10 decades in the 10×10 Festival — #throwback
As part of the 2013 10x10 Festival, women across 10 decades think about what gets them moving — and they offer answers in words, performance and art.
Read articleArt in the Berkshires — Winter 2023
Even in midwinter, artists are working in their studios here, and curators are planning new shows. They tell me how it feels to take ideas and feelings, a web of them, and make them tangible.
Read articleWinterlights glow on full-moon nights — #berkshireweekend
Coming up the hill, you can see the house gleaming in the distance and the birches shining like candy canes all along the Blue Stairs. Naumkeag is decked out again in Winterlights.
Read articleNightwood grows deeper into the trees
Nightwood has transfigured the Mount again with light and sound and sculpture, and the paths have shifted since last winter.
Read articleOctober touches Sheep Hill with brilliant color
Halfway up the slope, young maple saplings are turning vivid red and deep orange in the meadow. They’re hip high, no taller than the purple asters and the last of the golden rod ...
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