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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How many native wildflowers bloom in the fall? – #berkshireweekend
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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Indigenous Enterprise gathers Native dancers
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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Counterculture — women bridge earth and sky in clay
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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Eastern Woodland Dances return to the land
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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Dancers re-imagine contemporary American experiences
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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Indigenous artists alloy lands and stories at the Forge
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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Multimedia and film explore the changing Arctic
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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Unexpected encounters around the full moon (October 20 newsletter)
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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Mohican families connect in the land — across time
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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