It’s 40 degrees and raining, salamander weather, and I’d like to be slopping around in the glorious, raw New England spring.
Read articleA shift is beginning toward spring
The music shifts from one song to the next, teasing and lonely, angry, intimate and laughing. Rosi and Brian Amador have been singing together for 30 years, and you can feel it.
Read articleHalloween revives in the Berkshires
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 …
Read articleBooks and bluegrass are sparking new stories (Sept 22 newsletter)
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.
Read articleWe’re dancing on a midsummer night (June 23 newsletter)
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.
Read articleHilltop Orchards transforms in spring
From the top of the hill here, the mountains show on the horizon in receding waves, and in the high meadow the trees stretch away in long rows against the sky. They are all in bloom.
Read articleMCLA calls for places where diverse voices can rise
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.
Read articleBerkshires in Covid-19
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.
Read articleFrom the summit of Berlin Mountain I can see across 24 years
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.
Read articleArabesques finds inspiration in a springing line at the Clark Art Institute (By the Way)
Arabesques at the Clark Art Institute traces the influence of a curving line that feels as though it moves freely across the page, from Islamic art to 19th-century Europe.
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