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Great Barrington

Kate Abbott
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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Patricia Cambi, seated, Maria Soria, standing at left, and Rocio Chavez share memories from their childhood homes. Photo runs here with permission from the Berkshire Eagle.
Photo by Caroline Bonnivier Snyder
History

Peace and passion: Holy Week in a Latina community

November 4, 2020
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Maria Soria from Ambato in Ecuador, Lucia Quizhpi from Deleg in Ecuador, and Gabriela Cruz from Oaxaca in Mexico, came to Multicultural Bridge in Housatonic to talk about La Semana Santa, Holy Week, in the places where they were born.

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Stephanie Wright and the youth leaders and students in Multicultural Bridge's Happiness Toolbox program gather on a sunny day.
Photo by Maya Hampton VanSant
Community

In Bridge’s Happiness Toolbox, youth celebrate their own stories

October 19, 2020
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On a sunny morning, a group of young people stood in the meadow below an open ridge, reading a poem that Theresa (Miller) Beaudieu, a member of the Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of the Mohicans, wrote and set here in 1997 …

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The site of the Burghardt family homestead honors W.E.B. DuBois with a national monument in Great Barrington.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

A gift of story and song: W.E.B. DuBois on his home ground

September 4, 2020
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W.E.B. DuBois traveled the world in his lifetime. He helped to shape ideals of independence in Africa and freedom and democracy in America. And I have begun to get to know him in the Berkshires, where he was born.

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The Public Market in West Stockbridge offers groceries and supplies and sandwiches on the main street.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Food

Camp closures affect local businesses in the pandemic

August 7, 2020
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In a normal summer, I would be a counselor at URJ Crane Lake Camp, and right about now, my friends and I would be walking into West Stockbridge on our hour-off for a muffin and iced-tea from No. Six Depot Roastery and Café or a grilled sandwich from the Public […]

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The Prairie Whale in Great Barrington adapts its gardens for outdoor dining in the pandemic.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Food

The Prairie Whale adapts in a Covid world

July 20, 2020
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At the Prairie Whale in Great Barrington, strings of lights are gleaming above the tables on the lawn. Most of the chairs are full on a Friday night, and voices carry over the grass. The diners and the waiters are all wearing masks.

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A company dancer with Zaccho Dance Theatre performs in Between Me and the Other World, an hommage to W.E.B. DuBois. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Zaccho Dance Company
Dance

Zaccho Dance Theatre honors W.E.B. DuBois

February 26, 2020
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Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre performs her immersive work Between Me and the Other World, rooted in DuBois’ book, Souls of Black Folk, drawing on it in the 21st century.

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Vuyani Dance Theatre will perform Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero at Mass MoCA.
Photo by John Hogg
Dance

Movement and light come to the Berkshires midway between winter and spring (By the Way column)

January 29, 2020
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Sunday is midwinter, halfway between the first day of winter and the first day of spring, and in the Berkshires energy is stirring in performances like Vuyani Dance Company’s Cion, on college campuses and in the woods.

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Wray Gunn celebrates progress in the Clinton Church Restoration.
Photo by Kate Abbott
History

Nationally awardwinning architects and designers set to create cultural center

January 14, 2020
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Nationally recognized architects and designers Mario Gooden, Mabel Wilson and Walter Hood are working to re-imagine the Clinton Church in Great Barrington as a cultural center celebrating African American history.

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An ensemble of young choreographers performs their own work at Berkshire Pulse in Housatonic.
Photo by Susan Quinn
Dance

Young choreographers at Berkshire Pulse earn national attention

November 19, 2019
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Five young women in the Young Choreographers Initiative at Berkshire Pulse have created their own work on the theme of sexual assault. And they have caught national attention.

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