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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Sheffield

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Heritage breed chickens come out for some sun on a winter day at Moon in the Pond Farm.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Farms

Rare local flavors converge at Moon in the Pond Farm

December 24, 2022
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Dominic Palumbo raises Highland cattle, Jersey geese and Dorset sheep, as he grows vegetables and forages for local flavors.

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Rosi and Brian Amador perform as the Latin music duo Sol y Canto.
Sol y Canto
Southern Berkshires

Sol y Canto will bring improvisational music

February 21, 2022
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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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Sheffield's Festival of Holidays returns with tabletop trees. Press photo courtesy of Sheffield Historical Society.
Sheffield Historical Society
Winter holidays

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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Celtic supergroup Runa will perform at Dewey Hall.
Runa
Music

Runa plays Celtic music with roots and blues at Dewey Hall

February 26, 2020
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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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Contradancers spin on the dance floor.
Courtesy photo by Sam Whited
Dance

Contra dance is alive and growing in the Berkshires

January 8, 2020
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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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Goldenrod is one of the more misunderstood of all wildflowers; many people blame it for "hay" fever when it has moist spores and is not the cause.
Photo by Thom Smith
Outdoors

Fall wildflowers come in with a flourish

September 11, 2019
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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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The stone labyrinth at Congregation Beth Israel in North Adams is open to all.
Photo by Rachel Barenblat
History

Berkshire labyrinths offer a quiet journey into a new future

May 4, 2019
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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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White trillium blooms at Bartholomew's Cobble in Sheffield.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Thom Smith searches for spring wildflowers

May 6, 2018
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Ever wish that you were first name friends with the wildflowers that begin coming up in April and fill the woods with color in May? This short stretch of spring is a season of its own — in these short weeks while the spring sun warms the soil, and light reaches […]

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A Giant Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio cresphontes) spreads black and gold wings.
Courtesy photo by Robert Puster
Outdoors

Rare butterflies thrive at Lime Kiln Farm sanctuary in Sheffield

July 27, 2017
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Berkshire Naturalist Thom Smith takes a walk through a Mass Audubon property in Sheffield. From beginning to end, a visitor to Lime Kiln Farm Wildlife Sanctuary would be hard pressed to find a more beautiful walk that includes vistas of the Taconic Mountains beyond open hayfields and history with glimpses […]

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Red Trillium or wakerobin blooms at Bartholomew's Cobble.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Thom Smith explores Bartholomew’s Cobble in wildflower season

May 5, 2017
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Berkshire naturalist Thom Smith recalls a walk through Bartholomew’s Cobble, a Trustees of reservations Property in Sheffield along the Housatonic River.

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