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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Hancock Shaker Village

Kate Abbott
Scarlet runner beans bloom on a sculpture made by the internationally recognized Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak.
Sculpture by Pinaree Sanpitak
Visual Arts

Global artists imagine Shaker sisters’ lives

September 7, 2022
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Women worked here. Women lived here. When I walk through the Shaker kitchen, looking for Pinaree Sanpitak’s sculptures, I feel that in new ways.

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Martina Angela Müller's Davonte at the Mount invokes the sculpture of Nike, winged Victory, at Samothrace in Greece.
Sculpture by Martina Angela Müller
Visual Arts

Three days to chase the end of summer – #berkshireweekend

September 1, 2022
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A long weekend of quiet days … what should we do? I may explore the Taconics, or the book festivals, or spiderwebs of art at PS21 and Hancock Shaker Village.

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The gardens bloom at Hancock Shaker Village in late summer.
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Visual Arts

You were only waiting for this moment to be free — #Berkshireweekend

August 18, 2022
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In the heart of a Shaker garden, Pinaree Sanpitak has made an affirmation of life and force in a woman’s body and a Buddhist sacred space.

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Tansy blooms golden at Hancock Shaker Village in August.
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Visual Arts

International artists on Shaker land — Exploring central Berkshires

August 16, 2022
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We're looking for three international summer artists at Hancock Shaker Village on a summer day and exploring the center of the Berkshires around them.

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Kid goats curl up together in a patch of sun at Hancock Shaker Village.
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History

Kids and lambs meet at the Shaker Village

May 4, 2022
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The barn is different on a spring night. Calves lie in the hay like deer in the undergrowth. Lambs sleep on their mother’s backs, and sometimes a chicken will join them for the warmth. …

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Big River Chestnuts opened a farm stand in Sunderland for the holidays with fresh and roasted chestnuts and more.
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Winter holidays

Chestnuts are roasting — over the river and through the woods

December 13, 2021
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I’ve never cracked a hard-boiled egg on my dashboard before … The whole day has been like this, zany and surprising. We’re picnicking in my car in unexpected sun, eating with our fingers, in the middle of an expedition.

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The sun shows briefly over the round stone barn on a blustery September Day at Hancock Shaker Village.
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History

Walk across time in hiking boots (Sept 29 newsletter)

September 30, 2021
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Abigail Haynes-Lennox is directing us — a soprano in the extended company of Roomful of Teeth, up here on a mountain leading a damp and sweaty bunch of hikers in Shaker hymns.

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The gardens show mellow fall color on a blustery September Day at Hancock Shaker Village.
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Music

Climbing Holy Hill revives a Shaker pilgrimage

September 29, 2021
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Two music ensembles, Our Native Daughters and Roomfull of Teeth, and artist Allison Smith transform a walk in the woods into an experience of art and music in Climbing Holy Hill at Hancock Shaker Village.

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Hancock Shaker Village runs a CSA from its historic gardens in the warmer season.
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Arts

Berkshire creative places are adapting to a virtual world

May 20, 2020
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I’ve been talking with Berkshire creative places as they try to navigate in the physically distanced world coronavirus has created and reconnect online.

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Reggie Wilson's Fist and Heel performance group will premiere Power, a new work inspired by black Shaker dance, at Jacob's Pillow International Dance Festival in 2019.
Reggie Wilson / Jacob's Pillow
Dance

Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group invokes black Shaker dance

July 6, 2019
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Voices call and respond, as men and women move in a circle in a tresillo pulsing rhythm, keeping a beat with their hands and feet, and singing. They are moving together in an ecstatic ritual, a ring shout.

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