Turkey on fresh sourdough bread with sharp cheddar and raspberry jam. Peppery potato chips. Chocolate eclairs with custard and whipped cream …
Read articleChestnuts are roasting — over the river and through the woods
I’ve never cracked a hard-boiled egg on my dashboard before … The whole day has been like this, zany and surprising. We’re picnicking in my car in unexpected sun, eating with our fingers, in the middle of an expedition.
Read articleWomen transform rooms into life-changing moments
Marie Tattiana Aqeel is sitting at the kitchen counter, strumming a guitar quietly, and two friends pause in their conversation to listen to her sing. … More than 65 artists have come to the Berkshires from across the country to create a new work of theater together.
Read articleThe Making of Rites of Passage
The room is full of plants, densely cascading green fronds and overlapping leaves and fowers floating in a wide clay bowl, and Pooja Prema stretches out with stems around her …
Read articleWalk across time in hiking boots (Sept 29 newsletter)
Abigail Haynes-Lennox is directing us — a soprano in the extended company of Roomful of Teeth, up here on a mountain leading a damp and sweaty bunch of hikers in Shaker hymns.
Read articleClimbing Holy Hill revives a Shaker pilgrimage
Two music ensembles, Our Native Daughters and Roomfull of Teeth, and artist Allison Smith transform a walk in the woods into an experience of art and music in Climbing Holy Hill at Hancock Shaker Village.
Read articleMohican storytellers curate their past and future at Berkshire Museum
The canoe floats at the center of the room, a long tapering organic shape ribbed like a whale, and above it the shape of a wave crosses a banner in a web of blue lines, like a three-dimensional digital model, or a weaving.
Read articleArtists form and perform Rites of Passage
Women have come from around the country to perform here tonight — in Rites of Passage, musicians, visual artists, writers, healers are creating a ritual and a refuge, and I’m waiting to walk in.
Read articleStrawberry fields forever (June 16 newsletter)
We’re standing in the straw between the rows, and my sister is holding her six-week-old daughter and showing her two-and-a-half-year-old son how to feel under the leaves for ripe berries …
Read articleBaby animals return to the Shaker farm
Bill Mangiardi holds a lamb a few days old. She has a twin brother, and their mother has not been feeding them equally, so Mangiardi offers her a bottle of warm milk from a generous nanny goat. ...
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