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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Southern Berkshires

Kate Abbott
Fiddler Matt Cranitch from County Cork, accordionist Dónal Murphy from Limerick and guitarist and vocalist Tommy O’Sullivan from County Kerry perform live as Sliabh Notes.
Sliabh Notes
Music

Close encounters with Irish slides — #Berkshireweekend

March 16, 2023
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Fiddler Matt Cranitch from County Cork, accordionist Dónal Murphy from Limerick and guitarist and vocalist Tommy O’Sullivan from County Kerry perform live as Sliabh Notes.

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Bill and Elaine Markham have been boiling sap at Mill Brook sugar house since 1978.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Farms

Early spring explorations near Stockbridge

March 16, 2023
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Mill Brook Sugarhouse is boiling sap in a spring day around the corner from the Roaring Brook Trail, and Irish musicians are tuning up as I explore the Southern Berkshires.

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Jazz vocalist Suzi Stern performs in an outdoor concert at night. Press photo courtesy of the artist
Photo by Brenda Ladd
Music

Suzi Stern celebrates women’s voices in jazz

March 15, 2023
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As a vocalist, Suzi Stern has a long inside view of a rich and intense jazz scene in Austin, Texas — and from her new home in Lenox she is planning to bring her music to the Berkshires.

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Ceramics artist Karlene Jean Kantner shows her handbuilt earthenware vessels at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Press photo courtesy of BBG
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Visual Arts

Clay from an outdoor fire-pit carries ‘Volumes’

March 8, 2023
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Wood-firing ceramics in an open-face pit is a volatile craft — Karlene Kantner can spend 12 hours and more stoking the fire when she makes the clay vessels she has shown at Berkshire Botanical Garden.

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Steve Robinson looks out over his family's land at Sunny Banks Ranch in Becket. Press photo courtesy of the Eagle
Photo by Caroline Bonnivier Snyder
Berkshire Mosaic

Sunny Banks Ranch keeps visions alive

March 1, 2023
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Bill Robinson and his son, Steve, work a 200-acre ranch in Becket. Clad in thick rubber boots, jeans and a plaid shirt, Steve was outside working near the stables and looked every bit the part of a cowboy.

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From left, Doug Williams and Richard Roth share conversation during a potluck in Sheffield for "Queer Men of the Berkshires," on Sunday February 12, 2023.
Photo by Gillian Jones / Eagle
Community

Q-Mob affirms queer community and connection

February 22, 2023
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In a new year and an emergence of social activity after the peak of fear and isolation in Covid, a new community is taking root in Great Barrington — Q-Mob, Queer Men of the Berkshires.

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A workshop throws clay on pottery wheels at Berkshire Arts Center. Press image courtesy of the BAC
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Visual Arts

Hands-on celebrations for Valentine week

February 15, 2023
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Imagine sitting side by side with a quiet man in a slip-spattered t-shirt, in front of an electric pottery wheel. He is teaching you to center a lump of clay.

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Naire Poole leans on a balcony, laughing, in Romeo and Juliet. Press photo courtesy of Shakespeare & Company.
Photo by Katie McKellick
Theater

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? — #Berkshireweekend

February 9, 2023
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In the middle of February, a new friend is leaning on the counter and talking about theater games. We’re thinking about building trust and how to make something vast and wild out of almost nothing …

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Ceramics artist Karlene Jean Kantner shapes earthenware vessels by hand. Press photo courtesy of the artist
Photo by Chris Powell
Visual Arts

Karlene Kantner shapes wood-fired vessels

January 23, 2023
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On a slope in West Stockbridge, the air smells of wood smoke and frost and the unmistakable, clean sour scent of reduction — fire pulling oxygen from clay.

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Berkshire Mountain Bakery offers fresh sourdough bread near the bank of the Housatonic River.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Markets

Sourdough rises at Berkshire Mountain Bakery

January 18, 2023
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Loaves of white bread are entering and leaving the oven on a long wooden paddle. Rounded boules cooling, rich with chunks of dark Belgian chocolate — and ciabatta, seven grain bread, potato and onion …

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