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Kate Abbott
The columns of a Gilded Age house stand alone on the hilltop at Ashinully.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Here be dragons … real ones #berkshireweekend

July 21, 2023
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I met a dragon in the ruins at Ashintully. A live one — really. She’s a bearded dragon named Phoebe, and she came up with a young couple exploring the hills …

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Golden stems stand in soft snow in Mountain Meadow in Williamstown on a sunny afternoon.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Outdoors

Comfort food (for thought) in stormy weather

February 3, 2022
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Mountain Meadow opens out in a long arc. It’s a warm day after these weeks of single digits, and the snow is soft underfoot, like wet sand on the tideline.

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Internationally acclaimed installation artist Doug Aitken will set a mirrored hot air balloon flying across the state in New Horizon, a traveling art installation with the Trustees of Reservations.
Doug Aitken / Trustees of Reservations
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Internationally acclaimed artist Doug Aitken launches New Horizon

July 10, 2019
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It will gleam like lake water and drift in a clear sky. In late July, the internationally acclaimed artist Doug Aitken will bring a new work to the Berkshires. And it will fly. New Horizon is an abstract sculpture and a moving stage — and a hot air balloon. By […]

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A fountain still plays in the gardens where the Gilded Age estate of Ashintully once stood.
Photo by R. Hall / Trustees of Reservations
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Ashintully’s Gilded Age ruins shelter a garden on a Hill

July 3, 2018
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Four standing Doric columns are holding up the sky. They mark the site of Ashintully, the last remains of a Georgian-style mansion lost to fire in 1952. The columns guarded the entrance to a 35-room turn-of-the-20th-century “Berkshire Cottage.” Now the serenity of the view of brilliant white columns along the shore […]

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Mountain Meadow on a fall morning

November 9, 2017
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Berkshire naturalist Thom Smith takes a fall walk in the northern hills. With land in Pownal Vermont and Williamstown, Massachusetts, I cannot think of a lovelier autumn walk than the preserve we call Mountain Meadow. Choose an afternoon with few clouds, when walking will be even more pleasurable if skies are […]

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Red Trillium or wakerobin blooms at Bartholomew's Cobble.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Thom Smith explores Bartholomew’s Cobble in wildflower season

May 5, 2017
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Berkshire naturalist Thom Smith recalls a walk through Bartholomew’s Cobble, a Trustees of reservations Property in Sheffield along the Housatonic River.

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Freeze and thaw, the weather has left beads of ice on stems by the Hoosic River.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Bartholomew’s Cobble guides explore the woods in the bare season

March 22, 2017
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A week ago, I watched Carrianne Petrik-Huff take the temperature of a skunk cabbage. The thermometer, held inside the curl of the young plant, read 36 degrees — almost 20 degrees warmer than the outside air.

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The Bloedel family filled their garden at Field Farm with sculpture, including works by Richard M. Miller and Herbert Ferber.
Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Field Farm looks to Frank Lloyd Wright for Modern design

September 7, 2016
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In the Folly, bright panels of Modern paintings hang on the curved stone wall behind the couch and a broad window looks out across the pond and the hayfields. On the lawn bees hum in the azaleas, and a metal sculpture of a woman looks over her drawn-up knees to […]

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White trillium bloom at Bartholomew's Cobble.
Photo by Kate Abbott
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Wildflowers run wild at Bartholomew’s Cobble

April 26, 2016
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Trillium cover a hillside with wide three-corner flowers and the pungent odor of … old socks. “Remind you of your locker room days?” said Carrieanne Petrik-Huff, laughing, after a wildflower walk at Bartholomew’s Cobble.

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