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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Art in the Berkshires — Fall 2022
This fall, sculpture finds organic forms at WCMA and Hancock Shaker Village, and Norman Rockwell Museum explores freedom and representation in vivid and contemporary images.
Read articleInternational artists on Shaker land — Exploring central Berkshires
We're looking for three international summer artists at Hancock Shaker Village on a summer day and exploring the center of the Berkshires around them.
Read articleWinterlights dance in the dark at Naumkeag
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.
Read articleFirelight and music transform NightWood at the Mount
The flame streams sideways in the wind. The bowl of the torch is gleaming copper — it’s an oil lamp, essentially the same as the lamps that burned in Constantinople 2000 years ago, or in the temple of the Macabees ...
Read articleWishing for an Infinite Impossibility Drive
Douglas Adams died 26 years ago at this time of year, and I am feeling gently sad because he is not somewhere in the world, tubing through New Zealand caves and tracing constellations in the glow-worms on the ceilings.
Read articleBerkshire Botanical Garden opens in spring
Trees that looked bare five days ago are shaggy with seed pods, and in the Berkshire Botanical Garden, magnolias are shedding petals. I love seeing things from the inside while people are working in their everyday clothes.
Read articleGreenhorns film seeks a new generation of farmers
A child licks the dasher from a hand-crank ice cream maker. A young couple bake bread in a brick oven. Greens sprout in a warehouse in Oakland, and a cheesemonger opens a stall at a green market in Manhattan. ... From Northeast hills to bay-area sprawl, they all belong to a new generation of farmers.
Read articleSnowshoe and cross country ski trails
The winter woods can be quiet and beautiful in the snow. In the valleys we have trails to walk when the snow is light or snowshoe or ski when it gets deeper, and on the ridges some trails are groomed for skiers.
Read articleNaumkeag’s Winterlights opens Berkshire celebrations (November 25 newsletter)
The blue stairs are ice and fire, gleaming with snowflakes and warm with Gospel music. A woman is singing in a confident alto, full-voice and improvising, 'Let there be peace in every nation. Let there be hope for all the world to see ...'
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