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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Outdoors

Kate Abbott
A cross country skier in a spruce forest at the Notchview Reservation in Windsor. Courtesy of The Trustees of Reservations.
Photo by J. Monkman
Outdoors

Snowshoe and cross country ski trails

December 23, 2020
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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.

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The Guild of Berkshire Artists sets up Six Feet Apart at Turn Park Art Space. Press photo courtesy of GBA.
Photo by David Edgecomb
Visual Arts

Guild of Berkshire Artists evolves outdoors

October 22, 2020
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Eight tall forms stand in a wide circle like dolmens. They are metal frameworks 8 feet high and bright with color. They are holding glasswork, ceramics, encaustic protected in wax … and all of them will stand up to the weather.

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Maple and birch trees gleam along the overlook above the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

It’s all about soul (October 21 newsletter)

October 21, 2020
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I was looking for a trail head on Bee Hill Road when I stumbled on the overlook above Williamstown Rural Lands, and the hillside was bright in the sun.

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Gotland sheep graze in long grass. Creative Commons courtesy photo.
Photo by Aske Holst
Farms

Gotland sheep grow silver fleece and grassland

October 12, 2020
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Laura Gates lives at Shepherds Craft Farm in a house she and her husband built themselves, with tall windows and beams of honey-golden wood, and she can look up on a fall morning to see silvery Gotland ewes grazing in the field.

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The Hoosic River runs through golden maple trees in Williamstown on a fall afternoon.
Photo by Kate Abbott
About

Looking for fall brightness on the back roads (Oct. 1 newsletter)

October 1, 2020
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Color has come all at once this weekend. … The leaves let the light through, and here for a stretch the woods are rich and sunlit and almost too bright to look at. I can’t ever take it for granted.

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Timber framers shape supports at Hancock Shaker Village. Press photo courtesy of the museum.
Hancock Shaker Village
History

Living history adapts in 2020

September 23, 2020
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Robert Crighton planted the gardens here on the ridge. He tended the magnolia and the sweet bay hedge. On a summer day the Madame Colbert white roses would be covered in bees. …

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Analia Saban’s Teaching a Cow How to Draw, one of the six new works in the Clark Art Institute’s first outdoor sculpture show, Ground/Work, plays with the form of a split-rail fence.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Ground/Work gathers international artists at the Clark

September 17, 2020
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Songbirds were flying through the sculpture. … I was walking slowly along Analia Saban’s Teaching a Cow How to Draw, one of the six new works in the Clark Art Institute’s first outdoor sculpture show, Ground/Work.

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Quinton Hayes waters his plants, and Aylin Lopez tends homegrown watermelons with her older brother, Diego Lopez, and Jonathan Cedeno. Photos courtesy of Multicultural Bridge.
Photos by Maya Hampton VanSant
Food

Bridge sustainability program brings a generous harvest

September 11, 2020
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Berkshire families are connecting with local farms and harvesting their own gardens, in a new food sustainability program Multicultural Bridge has grown in the the pandemic.

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BodySonnet, a collective of dancers and choreographers, performs new work.
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Dance

BodySonnet dance collective embodies history at Chesterwood

September 8, 2020
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BodySonnet, a new collective of dancers, returns to the Berkshires from New York City, drawing on Chesterwood and Andromeda for inspiration.

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The site of the Burghardt family homestead honors W.E.B. DuBois with a national monument in Great Barrington.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

A gift of story and song: W.E.B. DuBois on his home ground

September 4, 2020
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W.E.B. DuBois traveled the world in his lifetime. He helped to shape ideals of independence in Africa and freedom and democracy in America. And I have begun to get to know him in the Berkshires, where he was born.

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