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Steve Robinson looks out over his family's land at Sunny Banks Ranch in Becket. Press photo courtesy of the Eagle
Photo by Caroline Bonnivier Snyder
Berkshire Mosaic

Sunny Banks Ranch keeps visions alive

March 1, 2023
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Bill Robinson and his son, Steve, work a 200-acre ranch in Becket. Clad in thick rubber boots, jeans and a plaid shirt, Steve was outside working near the stables and looked every bit the part of a cowboy.

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Dried flowers show vivid color in a workshop on making flower crowns with Full Well Farm at the Plant Connector in North Adams.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Curing cabin fever with bright color — #Berkshireweekend

February 23, 2023
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I’ve walked into the Plant Connector on a winter night, whenNorth Adams is quiet, and Meg Bantle and Laura Tupper-Palches from Full Well Farm are teaching a workshop on how to make flower crowns.

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From left, Doug Williams and Richard Roth share conversation during a potluck in Sheffield for "Queer Men of the Berkshires," on Sunday February 12, 2023.
Photo by Gillian Jones / Eagle
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Q-Mob affirms queer community and connection

February 22, 2023
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In a new year and an emergence of social activity after the peak of fear and isolation in Covid, a new community is taking root in Great Barrington — Q-Mob, Queer Men of the Berkshires.

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Q-Mob's hiking group stands on the shore of Lake Benedict in Beartown State Forest.
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Q-Mob explores Berkshire arts with a queer lens

February 21, 2023
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A new community of friends is looking for stories like these and encouraging the telling. Tom Truss and Bart Church have helped to found a new affinity group in Great Barrington, Queer Men of the Berkshires. And among their friendly activities, a group is forming to explore the arts.

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Beer mugs stand on a wooden counter by a softly lit window.
Photo by Wagner T. Cassimiro
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Raise a glass to freedom and friendship — #Berkshireweekend

February 16, 2023
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On the eve of the first 10×10 Festival, 11 years ago, I wrote a question — with a Smartphone and inside knowledge, what kind of film would I make about Pittsfield?

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A workshop throws clay on pottery wheels at Berkshire Arts Center. Press image courtesy of the BAC
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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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Suzi Banks Baum, Kristen van Ginhoven and Isabelle Kaplan Laugh together in rehearsal for the Bakelite Masterpiece. Press photo courtesy of WAM Theatre
Photo by Emma Rothenberg-Ware
Theater

Women reflect across 10 decades in the 10×10 Festival — #throwback

February 15, 2023
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As part of the 2013 10×10 Festival, women across 10 decades think about what gets them moving — and they offer answers in words, performance and art.

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Naire Poole leans on a balcony, laughing, in Romeo and Juliet. Press photo courtesy of Shakespeare & Company.
Photo by Katie McKellick
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But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? — #Berkshireweekend

February 9, 2023
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In the middle of February, a new friend is leaning on the counter and talking about theater games. We’re thinking about building trust and how to make something vast and wild out of almost nothing …

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A closeup image shows the Buddha in a traditional Tibetan Thangka at the Williams College Museum of Art. Press photo courtesy of WCMA from the Jack Shear Collection
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Tibetan artists talk through time — Across Shared Waters

February 8, 2023
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A new exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art will gather traditional Thangka paintings and contemporary Tibetan artists from around the world.

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Snow and ice coat the fir trees and bend saplings in the boreal forest on the ridge at Tamarack Hollow.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Tamarack Hollow protects rare high wetlands

February 8, 2023
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Aimee Gelinas and Daniel Cohen live in an island of Boreal forest, evergreens and moose, an ecosystem they feel is increasingly threatened by climate change — and vital in slowing it.

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