Have you ever felt a chick scrabble in your hair ... or a day-old kid rest tiny feet on your knee, still soft and slender as your thumb? BTW Berkshires is exploring Western Mass. as the season warms up ...
READ ARTICLELocal news reimagined
You want to know what to do this weekend in the Berkshires. You want to find places only the local people know. You want to meet people who feel the same way? We have color coming with the spring, like Maya Freelon’s artwork at WCMA. Come out and explore …
We live in a rare place in Western Massachusetts. We have minds at work out here in the country, and minds at play too. I live and write here. I’m a local journalist, so I get to walk behind the scenes and talk with people about what they love. We all want connection — we want to laugh, share ideas, dance barefoot and listen to music on a mountain at night. Let’s go see what we can find.
Stories of the week
Milltown percolates energy in community
If you’ve shared a hot plate of empanadas with a friend at La Fogata, or come across spoken word and music at Kellogg Park, or Whiskey Treaty Roadshow playing live at Bousquet, you’re encountering Milltown …
READ ARTICLEAnd the world is blooming again — #Berkshireweekend
By now the tree peonies at Naumkeag should be out in their full glory. When I slid in last week they were just opening, in an unexpected hour of sunlight in the last few days of the tulip festival.
READ ARTICLETrade Secrets — a growing garden show helps women survive
You may find hand-forged garden stakes, or lady slipper orchids in yellow or cream or deep red, or all three together, when the 24th annual Trade Secrets garden and antique festival returns ...
READ ARTICLESpring spills over at the Botanical Garden
Looking up into branches deep in petals ... seems somehow to bend space and time. I almost feel as though I’m floating. The crabapples are blooming overhead, and Berkshire Botanical Garden is brimming with them.
READ ARTICLEAbout Town
Want to know what’s happening in town this weekend? From North Adams to Lenox, we’re seeing a new energy in the Berkshires. Wherever we are in the pandemic now, locals are adapting and new voices are coming in. If you’re looking for nightlife or a good cup of coffee, a vintage t-shirt or an artisan fair … take a look through our Berkshire towns.
GO DOWNTOWNTheater and music
We have singer-songwriters, folk and bluegrass legends, emerging composers and Yo-yo Ma … sometimes all of them together. We’re known around the world for the people who come here to play, and they can be global travelers or as local and familiar as the farmer’s market on the corner. Or both. And we can dance to the beat.
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Seeds and seedlings for Mother’s Day weekend — #Berkshireweekend
Mom, the world is green again. This is the week the leaves open, and the valleys are transforming overnight. If you were here, we could go up to Wing and a Prayer and look for the ones you’ve taught me …
READ ARTICLEMass MoCA sees momentum through 25 years — Part 1
When Tom Bernard worked at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art 20 years ago, he wore his grandmother’s badge from Sprague Electric Co. clipped to his own. His family did not know what the museum would be, he says, but they believed it could be a force in revitalizing North Adams …
READ ARTICLEHow can a museum grow a creative ecosystem? — Part 2
Sue Killam sees Mass MoCA acting like a keystone species in the Berkshires — one organism that defines a whole ecosystem and keeps it healthy.
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