Imagine you’re in charge of North Adams, and you have the resources to create the river you want to see … what do you see? Voices mull over answers …
Read articleDEI Outdoors grows confidence and excitement in natural play
Rachel Hailey, founder of DEI Outdoors, has inspired more than 100 organizations nationwide in creating diversity, equity and belonging.
Read articleHooRWA and WRL explore the Hoosic river valley in stories and music
The Hoosic River Watershed Association and Williamstown Rural Lands are celebrating the Northern Berkshires in creative collaborations — original songs and poems and a new writing journal with Tupelo Press.
Read articleMeadows bloom at the Spruces — #berkshireexperience
I’m walking the bike trail along the Hoosic river toward the Spruces park in Williamstown, and the meadows and the pollinator garden are high with wildflowers.
Read articleQuiet ripples in a mountain spring — #berkshireweekend
I’ve found a spring I never knew before, up the Appalachian Trail in North Adams as the path climbs from North Hoosac Road and toward the ridge.
Read articleWhat gives you hope? — #berkshireweekend
The question is hanging in the window of MCLA’s art lab on Main Street over a post box painted like a mosaic. In the sunlight, the colors look as bright and abstract as the bus stop across the street.
Read articleElle Pérez photographs connection with people and place
Elle Pérez stretches time — their images can join people in the land, in places that have held light and life for hundreds of years.
Read articleTasting those East Taconic blues — #berkshireweekend
Second Drop Farm has opened their pick-your-own blueberries, and Caretaker Farm’s CSA offers herbs and flowers and summer vegetables.
Read articleBodies and lands bloom in Humane Ecology
Nina Simone sings in a nautilus shell, and nasturtiums and summer squash blossom, as the Clark Art Institute opens Humane Ecology, and eight contemporary artists from across the country show their work indoors and outdoors.
Read articleGood nights to wink back at fireflies — #berkshireweekend
The ducks take off, almost running on top of the water, and we watch them through a screen of cat-tails. The tops of the stalks carry cones of russet-gold we think must be pollen …
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