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
Orkney fiddler Louise Bichan honors her family
Louise Bichan, an internationally traveling fiddler from the Orkney islands off the northern tip of Scotland, will perform Out of My Own Light, live at the Foundry.
READ ARTICLESun brings picnics and expeditions — #berkshireweekend
The first warm days of the year call some of us out to wander. Even in these complex and troubling times … when the sun comes out and the afternoon touches 70 degrees for a few minutes, I have an urge to take a breath.
READ ARTICLEVolunteers in Medicine will expand their reach
When you walk into the waiting room, patients are talking together quietly. Staff and volunteers at the desk greet the next person in line in easy Spanish. A doctor, a mother and a three-year-old boy are laughing in the hallway. Great Barrington houses the largest free health clinic in Massachusetts. And it is growing.
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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Downtown stirring behind the scenes — #berkshireweekend
Assets 4 Artists and MCLA’s Galley 51 are coming together to show the work of the first five Iris Residency artists at Mass MoCA, in partnership with the Berkshire Immigrant Center.
READ ARTICLEJames Weldon Johnson inspires artists at Simon’s Rock — #throwback
Artists have come to the Berkshires in the footsteps of James Weldon Johnson, an internationally known poet, writer and politician with influence from the Harlem Renaissance to the U.S. Congress.
READ ARTICLEEllen Driscoll paints plants healing the earth
Poplar leaves tip and glimmer dark chocolate and copper, as though they’re blowing in the moonlight. Ellen Driscoll paints them in walnut ink … and shows them healing the earth.
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