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Museums

It’s 40 degrees and raining, salamander weather, and I’d like to be slopping around in the glorious, raw New England spring.

What does trick-or-treating look like in the mountains — and Halloween in a pandemic? The night smells and tastes of fall, pumpkins, apples and chocolate. Take a look at this week’s events …

She sang and she held the room in her hands. Her voice was clear alto, almost tenor, and guitar chords and percussion built an inexorable rythm in love and anger and grief. I can still remember shivering with it.

The fire held my eye. It’s taller than the dancers, and it’s lighting this green knoll in the steep side of the hill while an old man is sitting on a glacial boulder, playing a Hardanger fiddle.

Art can become a powerful tool for understanding, for MCLA’s new Institute for the Humanities, and MCLA has set out to create experiences and open spaces where diverse voices can share stories.

Even in a time of coronavirus, the Berkshires are a deeply creative place. Actors and dancers are creating new work. Artists are teaching workshops. Farmers markets are moving online. BTW has been gathering them in one virtual space.

Last time I climbed Berlin Mountain was 24 years ago at dawn. It was my first week in the Berkshires, in the first days of my first year at Williams College, and this weekend I stood on the summit again.