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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Ground/Work gathers international artists at the Clark
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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Bridge sustainability program brings a generous harvest
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 dance collective embodies history at Chesterwood
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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A gift of story and song: W.E.B. DuBois on his home ground
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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Berkshire Camino invokes a contemporary pilgrimage
As the pandemic keeps people in many countries from walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, Mindy Miraglia is launching Berkshire Camino, bringing the spirit of the quest to Lee and Lenox in a series of guided walks.
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Exploring identity, gardening and the dreams we hold dear
A question on diversity in gardening opens up a deeper discussion on the relationship between the environment and communities in the Berkshires.
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Mass Audubon nature camp adapts in a Covid-19 summer
Mass Audubon’s Berkshire Nature Camp has returned to Pleasant Valley Sanctuary this summer with new guidelines in the pandemic, and children have been getting comfortable outside, spotting the vivid orange of an Oriole or turning nature into crafts.
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Northern orchids bloom in Hawley Bog
Orchids grow here. I knelt on the boardwalk, balanced over the floating peat mat, to look up under the hanging blossom of a rose pogonia.
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Lanesborough Arboretum gives shade on a summer day
Jim Neureuther and his wife, Donna, meet Berkshire naturalist Thom Smith in Lanesborough and invite him to view the town’s Arboretum at Laston Memorial Park, just up past The Old Forge on Route 7.
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