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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Mohican

Kate Abbott
A high meadow runs along the Deerfield River.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Hikes

Hike to the Elder trees on the Mohican trail

October 5, 2022
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In the sun, a warm huge being gives me a place to rest, and I’m leaning back against a giant’s ankle. How many years has a white pine lived to grow broader than I can span even halfway?

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Golden rod fills the fields at in Canoe Meadows.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

How many native wildflowers bloom in the fall? – #berkshireweekend

September 8, 2022
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Walking through wildflowers taller than I am makes me want to laugh and lie back and watch the sky … they give perspective.

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World champion jingle dancer Acosia Red Elk performs at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Press photo courtesy of the Pillow
Photo by Christopher Duggan
Dance

Indigenous Enterprise gathers Native dancers

August 3, 2022
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Thunder sweeps into summer rain. The sound of water builds in growing force, and dancers are gathering in a circle. A woman holds a shimmering beat …

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Rose B. Simpson's ceramic sculptures look out from the meadow below the Taconic Crest in Counterculture at Field Farm. Photo by Kate Abbott
Sculpture by Rose B. Simpson
Visual Arts

Counterculture — women bridge earth and sky in clay

July 12, 2022
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She’s wading knee-deep in the meadow, and the sky moves in her eyes. She’s standing among friends on an open hillside below the Taconic ridge …

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Jake George performs traditional Iroquois dances on the outdoor stage at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Press photo courtesy of the Pillow
Photo by Christopher Duggan
Dance

Eastern Woodland Dances return to the land

June 29, 2022
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The Iroquois dancer holding the stage is keeping a beat in time to a tenor voice and a live drum. His father and grandfather are singing here tonight, as dancers carry living traditions.

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Internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer Mythili Prakash, from Los Angeles, performs holding out a lithe arm in deep blue light.
Photo by Jorge Vismara
Dance

Dancers re-imagine contemporary American experiences

June 15, 2022
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Dancers have told stories of Shiva and Kali for hundreds of years, and on a summer night, Mythili Prakash will embody them both … as Jacobs Pillow asks what it means to be American.

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Internationally acclaimed architect Ai WeiWei designed the artist studio space at the Forge Project.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Native Northeast

Indigenous artists alloy lands and stories at the Forge

November 24, 2021
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In Mohican, Heather Bruegl says, the shape of the language shows one person thinking of another. Between you and I, you come first. She is remembering storyteller and linguist Brock Schreiber, as he spoke at the Forge Project just over the ridge in the Taconics.

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The northern lights dance above the open ridges and the debris of space flight near Churchill in Manitoba, in a film still from Allison Maria Rodriguez' art installation 'all that moves.'
Allison Maria Rodriguez
Visual Arts

Multimedia and film explore the changing Arctic

November 17, 2021
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Allison Maria Rodriguez was floating in salt water that can have ice floes at this time of year, but she was there in the six weeks of summer, in the brief thaw …

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Fall color reflects on the river along the Housatonic Rail Trail.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Hikes

Unexpected encounters around the full moon (October 20 newsletter)

October 21, 2021
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Mindy Miraglia is good at finding places like this. She and Berkshire Camino are leading a guided walk on a fall morning from Housatonic to Chesterwood …

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Bonney Hartley, historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge Munsee community of the Mohican Nation, and a team of volunteers work at a dig at the site of the 1783 Ox Roast in Stockbridge. Press photo courtesy of the Mohican nation.
Photo by Rob Hoogs
Native Northeast

Mohican families connect in the land — across time

October 13, 2021
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Bonney Hartley’s family lived here six generations ago. She is standing in the Stockbridge cemetery, in the sun under the maple trees, where her ancestor, Naunauneekkanuck, stood in 1735.

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