The eggs come from a farm stand smaller than a chicken coop, and I almost missed it. The sign caught me as I was bowling south down Route 7 — shagbark hickory syrup …
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Color prints fill the senses from Japan to France
Mary Cassatt brings an Intaglio color print into Hue and Cry, the Clark Art Institute’s newest winter show, inspired by Japanese artists and woodblock-prints.
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In the life of winter … (January 12 newsletter)
Ice skimmed down the trees, touching them here and there. When the sun came out, it caught and glinted. It was five degrees that afternoon …
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Africana Studies grow at Williams across 50 years
Today students read graphic novels and James Baldwin. They follow the music in his novels, and then they write their own songs. They dance to marimba and jembe drums …
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Happy holidays! (December 22 newsletter)
This month has been full of gifts already. I walk into Chocolate Springs one afternoon just as Joshua Needleman is making chocolate peppermint bonbons, and he offers me a taste …
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Wishing you joy and Wassail (December 15 newsletter)
Imagine gathering around an apple tree at night. The trees are wet and starred with early snow. You stand around a bonfire, and people are singing under the full moon …
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Contradance and caroling share a living holiday music
On the floor, one man with a fiddle had the whole room in his hand. People danced in each other's arms, and I had walked out of the snow into the music ...
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Chestnuts 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.
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Color and light kindle in the cold (December 8 newsletter)
In a weekend of holiday walks, I was wandering around in the flow of the North Adams farmers market, and I found Full Well Farm for the first time.
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Wallasauce creates fashion for the future
On the top floor of the Beaver Mill, Sarah DeFusco and Andrew Casteel are working in a room full of cloth. They are becoming known for their colorful crazy-quilt clothing — together they’re Wallasauce.
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