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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Kate Abbott
Toasted coconut almond ice cream at the Chocolate Barn.
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Dance

What’s your first real taste of summer? (#this weekend)

June 16, 2022
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You know the feeling when something hits home and you feel your expression shift instinctively — like tasting something that surprises you with its flavor?

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Trees are budding in Berkshire Botanical Garden in early May.
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Gardens

Let’s go Maying — it’s blossom time

May 11, 2022
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This is the transforming time, every year. We come to a day or two in May when every bare budding twig seems to open all at once …

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A red ornament glows with starry light in the candycane forest in Winterlights at Naumkeag.
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Winter holidays

Winterlights dance in the dark at Naumkeag

December 7, 2021
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It’s full moon, and I’m walking up the old road across the fields, so I can see the hill above me … glowing red and gold. Naumkeag in Winterlights is bright as penny candy.

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Winterberry bushes are dense with red berries in the fields at Windy Hill in Stockbridge.
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Holidays

We have liftoff into the Northern Lights (Nov 17 newsletter)

November 18, 2021
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The berries make a vivid streak along the road, and there’s something buoyant about that wash of color now against a grey sky.

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Archaeologist Ann Morton works with Bonney Hartley, historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge Munsee community of the Mohican Nation, and a team of volunteers at a dig at the site of the 1783 Ox Roast in Stockbridge. Press photo courtesy of the Mohican nation.
Photo by Bonney Hartley
Mohican

New dig affirms Mohican homesites in the Southern Berkshires

August 23, 2021
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An archaeological dig along the Housatonic River shows the site of Mohican homes over a long span of years.

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Jackson Pond cups water in the center of the marsh at the foot of Yokun Ridge in Stockbridge.
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Outdoors

Late summer blooms under the boardwalk at Jackson Pond

August 16, 2021
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The pines open into cat-tails, and the view widens into dense deep green, and I'm looking across the marsh and the water to Yokun Ridge.

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Dawn Fairies by Laura A. Mills appears in 'Enchanted' at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Artwork by Laura A. Mills
Visual Arts

‘If I had wings’ … artists chart new worlds (August 4 newsletter)

August 4, 2021
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An angel is kissing a woman. It’s an arresting way to begin. As you walk into the rooms of fantasy paintings at the Norman Rockwell Museum, he stretches out wings shimmering pale pink and green like the inner side of a mussel shell.

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Claire Saunders and Rebecca Brooksher appear in The Importance of Being Earnest with Berkshire Theatre Group.
Photo by by Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware
Theater

Oscar Wilde spins comedy on the edge of sadness

June 30, 2021
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Two young men are talking in a London apartment at dusk. They feel familiar as they banter, inventing memes short enough for Instagram stories. It’s 1895, and The Importance of Being Earnest is open at Berkshire Theatre Group.

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Peter Gerakaris' owl mosaic glimmers in dappled shade at the Berkshire Botanical Garden.
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Visual Arts

Stone, bronze and glass are Taking Flight in the garden

June 23, 2021
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Glass tiles gleam like stone under water. They reflect light in wide eyes. Two owls look out of a mosaic in a stucco wall that seems to ease into the land around it, like a new outcrop from a vanished temple …

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Mindy Lam blends blossoms from the Berkshire Botanical Garden with her jewelry art in Flights of Fancy.
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Visual Arts

Mindy Lam infuses spring into wearable art

May 28, 2021
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The flowers tangle together like meadow grass in the morning, glinting with dew, and a small bright frog is climbing up the stems. Jewelry artist and fashion designer Mindy Lam opens the summer at Berkshire Botanical Garden.

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