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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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W.E.B. DuBois

Kate Abbott
Student percussionists perform on hand drums with Kusika. Press photo courtesy of Williams College.
Williams College
Community

Africana Studies grow at Williams across 50 years

January 6, 2022
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Today students read graphic novels and James Baldwin. They follow the music in his novels, and then they write their own songs. They dance to marimba and jembe drums …

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The Clinton Church welcomes the community after a tribute to W.E.B. DuBois at the River Walk.
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Writing

W.E.B. DuBois strengthens the soul of a community (February 17 newsletter)

February 23, 2021
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This morning I remembered a day in July in a garden along the Housatonic River. A woman was singing in a strong, rich alto, leading a spiritual in the W.E.B. Dubois memorial garden, and we were thinking about how he felt about the town where he was born. 

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From the sweep of where W.E.B. DuBois' first wife and son and daughter lie buried, the cemetery stretches toward the hills south of Great Barrington.
History

Black in the Berkshires: Revealing the past enlarges the future

February 17, 2021
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Frances Jones-Sneed has walked along the Housatonic River, finding and telling the stories of black men and women in the Berkshires who have reshaped this country since this country began.

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The site of the Burghardt family homestead honors W.E.B. DuBois with a national monument in Great Barrington.
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Writing

A gift of story and song: W.E.B. DuBois on his home ground

September 4, 2020
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W.E.B. DuBois traveled the world in his lifetime. He helped to shape ideals of independence in Africa and freedom and democracy in America. And I have begun to get to know him in the Berkshires, where he was born.

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A company dancer with Zaccho Dance Theatre performs in Between Me and the Other World, an hommage to W.E.B. DuBois. Press photo courtesy of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Zaccho Dance Company
Dance

Zaccho Dance Theatre honors W.E.B. DuBois

February 26, 2020
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Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre performs her immersive work Between Me and the Other World, rooted in DuBois’ book, Souls of Black Folk, drawing on it in the 21st century.

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Wray Gunn celebrates progress in the Clinton Church Restoration.
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History

Nationally awardwinning architects and designers set to create cultural center

January 14, 2020
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Nationally recognized architects and designers Mario Gooden, Mabel Wilson and Walter Hood are working to re-imagine the Clinton Church in Great Barrington as a cultural center celebrating African American history.

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