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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Southern Berkshires

Kate Abbott
Ice is skimming over the water where the Ashuwillticook rail Trail runs along Cheshire Lake.
Ashuwilticook Rail Trail / Photo by Kate Abbott
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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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Michael Zippel and Oskar Hallig have opened a shop for Berkshire-themed gift boxes at Only in My Dreams in South Egremont.
Michael Zippel and Oskar Hallig
Winter holidays

Only in My Dreams gives the Berkshires in a package

December 15, 2020
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Imagine fresh coffee, or tea and honey, coming to you as a gentle surprise. Oskar Hallig and his husband, Michael Zippel, have evolved Only in My Dreams in the pandemic to offer locally sourced gift boxes and care packages.

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Amy DiLalla's jewelry at IS183. Press photo courtesy of IS183.
Amy DiLalla
Winter holidays

IS183 lifts artists in virtual holiday market

December 11, 2020
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Blue marbled cups and sunset in canyon country, beads of polished wood … IS183 Art School of the Berkshires is creating a virtual holiday market for artists in the region with Mill Town Capital, through December 11.

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J.K. Custom Furniture and Designs crafts woodwork. Courtesy of the artists.
J.K. Custom Furniture and Designs
Winter holidays

A holiday artist co-op forms in Great Barrington

December 10, 2020
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In a year when Covid has cancelled in-person markets across the region, makers from the Great Barrington Arts Market and their friends are forming a popup holiday co-op.

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Sheffield's Festival of Holidays returns with tabletop trees. Press photo courtesy of Sheffield Historical Society.
Sheffield Historical Society
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Festival of Holidays in Sheffield turns up the lights

December 9, 2020
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In Sheffield, the historical society is creating its own new tradition in lights. In the grounds of the historic Dan Raymond House, 20 lighted Frasier firs will glimmer.

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Lenox holds its first outdoor festival of trees for the holidays in 2020.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Festivals of trees move outward in Lenox and Pittsfield

December 9, 2020
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Downtowns and local businesses are looking for breathing space as they navigate a season where traditional holiday walks and pageants and processions have to give way.

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Tim Jones performs as Buddy, a young Truman capote, in A Holiday Memory. Press photo courtesy of Berkshire Theatre Group.
Photo by Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware
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Imagination kindles in the Depression: BTG brings Truman Capote’s Holiday Memories

December 3, 2020
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Deep in the Depression, a boy and his motherly cousin have saved pennies for a year to make fruit cakes — as Berkshire Theatre Group brings an outdoor performance of Truman Capote’s ‘Holiday Memories’ to life.

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Winterberry grows wild in the New England woods.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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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
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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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Domed sculptures gleam in the Italian Garden at the Mount in NightWood.
NightWood / Photo by Kate Abbott
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NightWood turns the Mount into a new world

November 22, 2020
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This winter, the Mount will transform Edith Wharton’s gardens and grounds with NightWood, a landscape of mystery and fantasy, doors into other worlds, journey and night.

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