The sun came out, and the undergrowth turned softly green — ten minutes ago I’d been traveling in raw weather and now I’d found spring. I was walking through Lime Kiln Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time.
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Columbine and jazz: Warm days are coming — #berkshireweekend
The splash of red is vivid and unexpected — wild columbine. I wouldn’t have looked for them this early, or at this bend in the trail, with the white trillium growing thickly up the slope.
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Close encounters with Irish slides — #Berkshireweekend
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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Rare local flavors converge at Moon in the Pond Farm
Dominic Palumbo raises Highland cattle, Jersey geese and Dorset sheep, as he grows vegetables and forages for local flavors.
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Sol y Canto will bring improvisational music
On a summer day, Rosi and Brian Amador were walking together on the pilgrim’s way, the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain, and they were singing …
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Festival of Holidays in Sheffield turns up the lights
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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Runa plays Celtic music with roots and blues at Dewey Hall
Runa, a broadly recognized Celtic roots band founded Irish and Scots music, with influences in jazz, bluegrass, flamenco and blues, performs at Dewey Hall in Sheffield.
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Contra dance is alive and growing in the Berkshires
The tradition of contra dancing stretches from coast to coast and back more than 400 years. A caller teaches a series of simple moves, and dancers join in to live music with a beat and a quick melody.
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Fall wildflowers come in with a flourish
Throughout the Northeast, nature rushes to display one last event of the growing season. The late summer and early autumn flourish of brilliant wildflowers on a September or October afternoon are worth an outing. To see it at its best, you’ll need to stroll through meadows and fields, although in […]
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Berkshire labyrinths offer a quiet journey into a new future
A curve drawn in one movement becomes a pathway on a hillside. Walk slowly on a spring morning. The cherry trees are blooming. A woodpecker drums in the wood over the hill. The path turns with each step, toward the lake in the valley, toward the wooded slope above it. […]
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