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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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North Adams

Kate Abbott
Grammy-winning Zydeco musician Terrance Ximien performs on piano accordion in his Fulani hat from Mali, laughing in purple light.
Photo by James Dean
Music

Terrance Simien swings with Zydeco on Junteenth

June 15, 2022
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The washboard is flicking a quick carrying beat that shakes through you and pulls you to your feet — the accordion is rocking warm, and a low voice coasts over it, laughing …

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Clintonia, wild yellow lilies, bloom along the Appalachian Trail on Mount Greylock.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Hikes

Finding waterfalls along the Appalachian Trail

June 8, 2022
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I came to the waterfall almost by accident. I didn’t know I was close — I just wanted to get into the woods on a sunny morning …

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Kyle Boatwright (right) appears in Bright Half Life at the Silverthorne Theater, directed by Gina Kaufmann. Press photo courtesy of Silverthorne Theater
Photo by Frank Aronson
Theater

Bright Half Life weaves a love story through time

June 2, 2022
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We’re on a ferris wheel in 1986, and it’s dusk, and two women are sitting close together. They’re holding hands and talking over the bolts rattling in the wind … and they’re in a long and deep relationship.

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A closeup of the bright rooms in Izhar Patkin's, 'The Wandering Veil,' a work created in collaboration with the poet Agha Shahid Ali, at Mass MoCA in 2014.
Ishar Patkin / Mass MoCA
Visual Arts

Izhar Patkin honors poet Agha Shahid Ali in light (throwback)

April 14, 2022
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On a spring night, Izhar Patkin’s ‘Veil Suite’ fills the long gallery with rooms of translucent paintings, illuminating Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry.

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Dutchman's breeches peeks out from behind a trout lily leaf along the trails on Mount Greylock.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Revel in a spring hike up Ragged Mountain

April 12, 2022
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On a late March Saturday I climbed Ragged mountain with a co-worker, a friend of his and an ecstatic dog who came back with mud up to his belly.

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In Weep Holes at Mass MoCA, Lily Cox-Richard has woven tomato frames into starbursts with kudzu vines.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Lily Cox-Richard melds land and community

April 4, 2022
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Ceramic fire pots slope against the brick, imprinted with patterns of leaves. Last summer in the Berkshires, people gathered around them on warm nights …

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Armando Guadalupe Cortés’ 'Castillo' honors the people and the land in his native Mexico with vividly bright seeds as well as stones, feathers, figurines and more, at Mass MoCA.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Mass MoCA shows look toward a new future

April 4, 2022
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Last summer in Southern California, a group of friends made bowls in their back yard, and two days later they hardened them in a wood fire while the clay took on a patina from the smoke …

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Snowdrops open on a spring afternoon, even before the frosts end.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

What would ee cummings hear out here today?

March 31, 2022
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People are sharing stories in a way I haven’t felt in the Northern Berkshires in a long time — not since Inkberry held writing workshops and readings in a storefront in North Adams …

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Armando Guadalupe Cortés’ 'Castillo' honors the people and the land in his native Mexico with vividly bright seeds as well as stones, feathers, figurines and more, at Mass MoCA.
Armando Guadalupe Cortés
Visual Arts

Fire and candlelight with red beans and chiles

March 17, 2022
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Wide clay bowls are piled in the corner of the room against the brick wall. I’ve come looking for them in Mass MoCA’s new spring shows — drawn by a local story I heard months ago about their making …

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A close-up of a crazy quilt at Bennignton Museum shows bright, scraps of cloth in varied colors and textures, with patters of stitching and embroidered flowers.
Bennington Museum
Visual Arts

Quilting thrives with a contemporary energy

March 15, 2022
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From college dorms to quilt shops, an old New England artform is alive in the Berkshires, in patterns and textures from leaves and landscapes to contemporary abstract color.


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