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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Stockbridge

Kate Abbott
Amy DiLalla's jewelry at IS183. Press photo courtesy of IS183.
Amy DiLalla
Winter holidays

IS183 lifts artists in virtual holiday market

December 11, 2020
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Blue marbled cups and sunset in canyon country, beads of polished wood … IS183 Art School of the Berkshires is creating a virtual holiday market for artists in the region with Mill Town Capital, through December 11.

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Tim Jones performs as Buddy, a young Truman capote, in A Holiday Memory. Press photo courtesy of Berkshire Theatre Group.
Photo by Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware
Holidays

Imagination kindles in the Depression: BTG brings Truman Capote’s Holiday Memories

December 3, 2020
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Deep in the Depression, a boy and his motherly cousin have saved pennies for a year to make fruit cakes — as Berkshire Theatre Group brings an outdoor performance of Truman Capote’s ‘Holiday Memories’ to life.

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Jack-o-lanterns glow in the annual Pumpkin Walk at Naumkeag.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Halloween

Halloween gleams at the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show

October 31, 2020
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Jack-o-lanterns glimmer at the Naumkeag pumpkin show, carved with fantastic shapes — dragons and sea creatures, owls and octopuses … 

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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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Apple trees bear a bright harvest at Chesterwood.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Writing

Live poets at Chesterwood feel the pull of current change

October 14, 2020
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In these short weeks before the election, Western Massachusetts poets come together at the historic home and studio of the sculptor of the Lincoln memorial, to share work that feels relevant to this time and in that place.

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The Hoosic River runs through golden maple trees in Williamstown on a fall afternoon.
Photo by Kate Abbott
About

Looking for fall brightness on the back roads (Oct. 1 newsletter)

October 1, 2020
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Color has come all at once this weekend. … The leaves let the light through, and here for a stretch the woods are rich and sunlit and almost too bright to look at. I can’t ever take it for granted.

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Timber framers shape supports at Hancock Shaker Village. Press photo courtesy of the museum.
Hancock Shaker Village
History

Living history adapts in 2020

September 23, 2020
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Robert Crighton planted the gardens here on the ridge. He tended the magnolia and the sweet bay hedge. On a summer day the Madame Colbert white roses would be covered in bees. …

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BodySonnet, a collective of dancers and choreographers, performs new work.
BodySonnet
Dance

BodySonnet dance collective embodies history at Chesterwood

September 8, 2020
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BodySonnet, a new collective of dancers, returns to the Berkshires from New York City, drawing on Chesterwood and Andromeda for inspiration.

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A White Pine stands more than 150 feet tall near the south end of Ice Glen in Stockbridge.
Photo by Thom Smith
Outdoors

Thom Smith looks for giants — old growth trees

February 27, 2020
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Old growth woods have never been harvested. As much as 70 percent of the Berkshires’ woods were cut down between the arrival of the first European colonists and the Civil War — but in pockets, often in hard-to-reach places, giant trees still grow.

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The Chinese garden at Naumkeag glows at Winterlights.
Photo by Kate Abbott
History

Winterlights festival glows on a winter night at Naumkeag — BTW column

November 24, 2019
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At Winterlights, the gardens and the woods are glimmering — Naumkeag in Stockbridge has turned on 200,000 bulbs in its second monthlong festival. 

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