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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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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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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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A workshop throws clay on pottery wheels at Berkshire Arts Center. Press image courtesy of the BAC
Berkshire Arts Center
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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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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Cyclamen bloom in the greenhouse at Naumkeag in Winterlights.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Winterlights glow on full-moon nights — #berkshireweekend

December 8, 2022
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Coming up the hill, you can see the house gleaming in the distance and the birches shining like candy canes all along the Blue Stairs. Naumkeag is decked out again in Winterlights.

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Two children stand in golden light with an owl and a cat, looking toward a castle on the horizon, in Hilary Knight's illustration. Press image courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum
Hilary Knight
Visual Arts

Hilary Knight reveals hidden worlds in New York

November 22, 2022
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Hilary Knight has explored New York as an artist for more than 70 years — and at 96, he still explores the city today in his drawings and paintings. Though he is often known as the illustrator of the Eloise books, he has wandered over a wild field.

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Eloise in the books by Kay Thompson — the indomitable six-year-old girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel — relaxes in a busy library. Press image courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum
Hilary Knight
Visual Arts

Eloise in the Berkshires — A book behind the scenes

November 22, 2022
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Eloise has come to the Norman Rockwell Museum with visions of New York — a look into the mind of the artist who brought her to life.

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Moss grows on a fallen log in the Ice Glen in Stockbridge.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Hikes

Fresh bread on rainy mornings – #berkshireweekend

November 17, 2022
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Ice Glen feels like its own world. You walk through a gap in the rock, and the land changes — steps and caves, boulders covered with moss and fern.

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Pumpkins hang in trees like lanterns at the Naumkeag Pumpkin Walk.
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Community

Magical mystery tours are waiting to take you away (#berkshireweekend)

October 13, 2022
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A luna moth made out of firelight is glimmering in the leaves. Jack o-lanterns hang like lanterns, carved with petals and wings …

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A Black woman listens to music, her eyes closed and her head back in bliss, in Noa Denmon's illustration. Press image courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum
Art by Noa Denmon
Visual Arts

‘Imprinted’ honors BIPOC artists and histories and futures

September 15, 2022
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Imprinted at the Norman Rockwell Museum honors contemporary BIPOC artists and considers representations of Black, Indigenous, people of color in America across 400 years.

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