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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Northern Berkshires

Kate Abbott
Wendy Red Star draws out stories in a portrait of Peelatchiwaaxpash / Medicine Crow (Raven). Photo Courtesy of the artist and Mass MoCA.
Peelatchiwaaxpash / Medicine Crow (Raven)
Visual Arts

Wendy Red Star re-imagines care of Native objects and stories

January 25, 2021
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Artist and curator Wendy Red Star, Mass MoCA and MCLA will host a virtual roundtable exploring the ways museums can re-imagine care for Indigenous objects.

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In a pandemic spring and summer, A-Ok Barbecue responded with their own homemade doughnuts.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Food

A-Ok Barbecue spices up take-out in style

January 15, 2021
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She is an Australian artisanal bread baker trained in New York. He is a former Manhattan chef and a butcher — a Russian Hungarian Jew from Connecticut. Together, at A-Ok, they are inventing Berkshire barbecue.

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Ice is skimming over the water where the Ashuwillticook rail Trail runs along Cheshire Lake.
Ashuwilticook Rail Trail / Photo by Kate Abbott
About

The center can hold (January 6 newsletter)

January 7, 2021
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Tonight while a mob is attacking government buildings, while I am sitting safe by the fire at the foot of a mountain in a town where I know college students have been threatened a mile away and somehow stood tall and gone on, I am reading Danusha Lameris’ poems for the first time.

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Playwright Shakina Nayfack writes and performs in 'The Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club.' Photo courtesy of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Shakina Nayfack
Theater

Williamstown Theatre Festival premieres ‘The Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club’

December 31, 2020
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In the world premiere of a new audio play, an international group of transgender women band together at a hotel in Thailand as they prepare for gender confirmation surgery.

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In Trinh Mai's diptych 'When We Became Trees,' a husband and wife find quiet in a garden in Southern California.
Trinh Mai
Visual Arts

Unison stronger than fission: Poetry and art hold a light in hard times

December 22, 2020
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Artist Trinh Mai and poet Shann Ray have created a book of words and paintings probing a world where the beauty of high canyons and loving relationships can exist at the same time as fission and division.

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A handmade glass ornament glows warmly at Cheshire Glassworks.
Photo by Kate Abbott

Cheshire Glassworks glimmers with the colors of winter

December 16, 2020
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In her studio at Cheshire Glassworks, Jill Reynolds is making beads. They reflect the changing seasons, the shifting landscapes outside her window.

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Tony award winning actor Audra McDonald will perform as Blanhe in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Photo by Allison Michael Orenstein
Theater

Listening to the darkness — WTF reimagines Streetcar Named Desire

December 3, 2020
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Ariel Shafir and Audra McDonald explore the sounds of New Orleans and the darker sides of the human psyche in Williamstown Theatre Festival’s audible production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Winterberry grows wild in the New England woods.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Holidays and humor grow near home (December 3 newsletter)

December 3, 2020
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The first weekend in December — winterberry are deep red along the road. The long row of them in front of Windy Hill Farm is enough to turn my head when I drive by.

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The Blue Stairs glow blue and silver at Winterlights at Naumkeag.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Holidays

Naumkeag’s Winterlights opens Berkshire celebrations (November 25 newsletter)

November 30, 2020
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The blue stairs are ice and fire, gleaming with snowflakes and warm with Gospel music. A woman is singing in a confident alto, full-voice and improvising, ‘Let there be peace in every nation. Let there be hope for all the world to see …’

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Tunnel city Coffee has been serving its own roasted beans on Spring Street in Williamstown for decades.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Community

Williamstown looks up after the election

November 13, 2020
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Spring Street was alive on Saturday. Students were sitting outside Tunnel City in the unexpectedly warm weather, and I could feel a lift and an energy for the first time in … I don’t know how long.

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