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The Musical Theatre Performance Ensemble from the School at Jacob’s Pillow will perform on the outdoor stage. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow

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Jacob's Pillow

By the Way Berkshires sends out a weekly newsletter on Wednesday nights / Thursday mornings with a roundup of stories and events.

Dandelions bloom around the eye sculptures at WCMA.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Theater

Let’s do the time warp again — #Berkshireweekend

May 25, 2023
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The warmer days seem to have lifted the energy in the hills, and our creative places are absorbing it from the world around them — and this weekend, events are flying.

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Lilacs bloom in Lilac Park in Lenox.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Gardens

Candidly we need to cultivate our gardens … — #Berkshireweekend

May 18, 2023
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The strawberry plants are small enough to hold in a palm, but some of them have blossoms forming. I’m cupping them in my hands and pressing them gently into the earth.

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Trees show crimson buds at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge.
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Fresh cheese and sourdough: Farmers markets and plant sales — #Berkshireweekend

May 11, 2023
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And suddenly it’s May. We feel the change coming for weeks, fizzing in catkins and lapping up the lower slopes — and then the sun comes out and the maples open their leaves, and the world turns green again.

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Crimson tulips bloom at the annual Daffodil and Tulip Festival at Naumkeag in Stockbridge.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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You’re going to meet some gentle people there — #Berkshireweekend

May 4, 2023
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Naumkeag’s annual spring festival is far enough along that the daffodils are wide open and just starting to give ground, and the tulips are all in full blow.

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Wild columbine blooms vivid red and yellow at Bartholomew's Cobble in Sheffield.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Columbine and jazz: Warm days are coming — #berkshireweekend

April 27, 2023
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The splash of red is vivid and unexpected — wild columbine. I wouldn’t have looked for them this early, or at this bend in the trail, with the white trillium growing thickly up the slope.

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Awardwinning poet Ross Gay read from his work on a spring day at Bennington College.
Ross Gay / Photo by Natasha Komoda
Writing

Questing for poets on spring nights — #Berkshireweekend

April 20, 2023
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Why is April called poetry month? Why now, in a precarious early spring? Ross Gay and Robert Hass remind me that poetry is physical. Immediate. Close as skin or rain on birchbark.

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Bloodroot come up on a spring day along the Hoosic River.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Spring wildflowers and baby animals emerge — #Berkshireweekend

April 13, 2023
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The bloodroot are back. I just went down to one of the closest places I know to look for them, out on the trail along the western bank of the Hoosic River.

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Artist Kapwani Kisanga honors and explores freedom and revolution on 'Flowers for Africa,' in evergreen garlands and aromatics and white roses. Press photo courtesy of Mass MoCA
Kapwani Kisanga
Visual Arts

Mass MoCA and Flamenco tap into living rhythm — #Berkshireweekend

April 12, 2023
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‘The Eve of the Future’ … I was walking through Mass MoCA’s new spring shows, and the name of one of Carrie Schneider’s photographs caught my eye.

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An array of pastries glisten with sugar at Patisserie Lenox.
Photo by Susan Geller
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Talking face to face in the first days of spring — #Berkshireweekend

March 22, 2023
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An almond croissant and coffee on a sunny morning — my first signs of spring are coming to me at Patisserie Lenox, talking with an old friend. She’s my first boss and my first editor …

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Fiddler Matt Cranitch from County Cork, accordionist Dónal Murphy from Limerick and guitarist and vocalist Tommy O’Sullivan from County Kerry perform live as Sliabh Notes.
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Music

Close encounters with Irish slides — #Berkshireweekend

March 16, 2023
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Fiddler Matt Cranitch from County Cork, accordionist Dónal Murphy from Limerick and guitarist and vocalist Tommy O’Sullivan from County Kerry perform live as Sliabh Notes.

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