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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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World War I

Kate Abbott
An actor balances a weight on his shoulders in William Kentridge's 'The Head and the Load,' at Mass MoCA in North Adams.
Image courtesy of Mass MoCA
Visual Arts

William Kentridge honors Africa in World War I

June 14, 2018
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You have already taken all I have. Now you are taking my son. The words appear on a vast wall. At center stage a man faces a round microphone, as though he is speaking on the radio in 1918. He is reliving the history of Africa in World War I — a […]

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Thompson Chapel at Williams College holds a memorial to people in the college community who fought in World War I.
Thompson Chapel / Photo by Kate Abbott
Film

French films honor World War I and a Williams professor who fought in the trenches

February 19, 2018
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On a late summer morning he walks across the quad carrying a stack of French novels. He is dark-haired, spectacled and 40, a quiet man returning to his office. He came here from a farming town in the south of France to teach. And a year ago he was mired […]

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Visitors gather on the terrace at the Clark Art Institute beside the reflecting pool.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Cubist and Surrealist encounters at the Clark — BTW column

August 23, 2017
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The cloth of her shirt ripples like light on water, and above her three circles of light shine like bubbles or sun on a lens. This is a self-portrait. Dora Maar was about 28 when she made it. I can imagine her in her darkroom, shaping light and shade on […]

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The gardens glow on a summer day at The Mount, Edith Wharton's historic house in Lenox.
Photo by John Seakwood
Writing

Edith Wharton gets into the trenches in World War I

June 30, 2016
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The tunnel cut into the hill was wholly dark except for “an occasional narrow slit screened by branches.” The gunners had screens behind them, to keep any betraying light from showing where they sat with guns between their knees. Coming out into a “gutted house among fruit trees,” a woman […]

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