It’s the season for holiday music. At night, by firelight, people who care about each other are feeling our way through the words with a familiar integrity, like a conversation at home …
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Stories open portals on winter nights — #berkshireweekend
On an afternoon when the sun seems to set by 4, it can help to find a group of people talking about stories and sharing experiences, weaving myth and imagery.
Read articleSurprised by joy in winter holiday walks — #berkshireweekend
This weekend opens the season of downtown celebrations, from a music and horse-drawn wagon rides to wreaths and art and family events …
Read articleGathering warmth to carry us through the winter — #berkshireweekend
Winter makers and winter harvests are coming to us this week — as the Norman Rockwell Museum opens a retrospective on internationally known illustrator Leo Leonni, the nights are warming up with music.
Read articleBehind the scenes with artists — #berkshireweekend
On a cool grey Saturday, MCLA invited me to talk with the artists in their fall art show, Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature, as they focus in on a lacewing moth, a blown down branch, a river stone …
Read articleBreathing deep on mild days in late fall
On an afternoon near Halloween with a rare glimpse of sun, I went wandering on Sheep Hill. The trees were turning that silver-tawny shade of bare limbs in the late fall sun.
Read articleBaby, this is your day — It’s time to masquerade — #berkshireweekend
When did we begin this tradition on Halloween of who do you want to be? Play, have fun, you can turn into anyone tonight — a dryad in birch bark, a unicorn, any being you can imagine …
Read articleHalloween nightlife — Jack-o-lanterns and comedy — #berkshireweekend
I have to wonder what kind of shapeshifter is visiting the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show tonight. Families are talking on the garden path … and we’re surrounded by creatures made of fire.
Read articleApple pie and roasted chestnuts — #berkshireweekend
Where would I explore this weekend, if I could be anywhere at the blink of an eye? I might head east over the ridge on Saturday for hot roast chestnuts at Big River Farm and the re-opening of the Yiddish Book Center …
Read articleEarly signs of fall color — #berkshireweekend
Up on Stone Hill, marigolds are flowering vividly in Pallavi Sen’s garden, and here by the reflecting pool I’m looking at the berries of a coffee plant and wondering if I’ve ever seen them before …
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