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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Imagination kindles in the Depression: BTG brings Truman Capote’s Holiday Memories
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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Halloween gleams at the Naumkeag Pumpkin Show
Jack-o-lanterns glimmer at the Naumkeag pumpkin show, carved with fantastic shapes — dragons and sea creatures, owls and octopuses …
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In Bridge’s Happiness Toolbox, youth celebrate their own stories
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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Live poets at Chesterwood feel the pull of current change
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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Looking for fall brightness on the back roads (Oct. 1 newsletter)
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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Living history adapts in 2020
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 dance collective embodies history at Chesterwood
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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Thom Smith looks for giants — old growth trees
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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Winterlights festival glows on a winter night at Naumkeag — BTW column
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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