The 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival is in town, and Pittsfield is at play. Every year in late February, downtown Pittsfield holds a weeklong celebration with art and music, new plays, independent film and more.
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Berkshire birders join in the global Great Backyard Bird Count
On February 14 to 17, some 32 million people around the world will join the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society in the annual Great Backyard Bird Count, and Berkshire birders will share the quest.
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Movement and light come to the Berkshires midway between winter and spring (By the Way column)
Sunday is midwinter, halfway between the first day of winter and the first day of spring, and in the Berkshires energy is stirring in performances like Vuyani Dance Company’s Cion, on college campuses and in the woods.
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The Berkshires welcome winter solstice with firelight and evergreens (BTW column)
We have almost reached the longest night of the year, and for hundreds of years people have taken time for it around the world, and in the Berkshires too.
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How to bring home a living Christmas tree — By the Way column
I was looking out from a field across from the Pleasant Valley Tree Farm, up above Bennington, Vt. I had decided I’d like a Christmas tree this year.
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Saving and scattering seeds to welcome Thanksgiving — BTW column
The pods taper gracefully. They have a central rib for support, and a green-gold skin like corn husk. I have never seen the inside clearly before. This afternoon, in the melting snow, I am standing at the sloshy top of my backyard, scattering milkweed seeds.
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Mass Audubon’s Pleasant Valley Sanctuary celebrates 90 years
A quiet walk in Lenox years ago has changed many lives. Mass Audobon’s Pleasant Valley Sanctuary is celebrating its 90th year in Lenox.
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Fall wildflowers come in with a flourish
Throughout the Northeast, nature rushes to display one last event of the growing season. The late summer and early autumn flourish of brilliant wildflowers on a September or October afternoon are worth an outing. To see it at its best, you’ll need to stroll through meadows and fields, although in […]
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Honey on the roof: Clark Art Institute cultivates bees and meadows
The scent of honey and wood smoke is as thick as the warm, dense hum. The worker bees are active today. A few hot days have come after cool, wet weeks, and the wild primrose are blooming in the pastures. David Thayer gently lifts a small wood and mesh box to […]
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Internationally acclaimed artist Doug Aitken launches New Horizon
It will gleam like lake water and drift in a clear sky. In late July, the internationally acclaimed artist Doug Aitken will bring a new work to the Berkshires. And it will fly. New Horizon is an abstract sculpture and a moving stage — and a hot air balloon. By […]
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