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Carole Owens

A resident of Stockbridge, Carole Owens is the author of seven books, three newspaper columns, and numerous feature articles. As a local historian, Owens was named Scholar in Residence by the Massachusetts Council on the Humanities. She pens the Stockbridge Updates newsletter.

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CONNECTIONS: Stockbridge has always been green and open, but something is changing

You cannot build your way out of the housing crisis if you don’t enforce the bylaws.
Viewpoints

DATELINE STOCKBRIDGE: Vulnerability

As long as real estate values in Stockbridge remain so high, thousands of acres are profitable for developers and our small, semi-rural village is vulnerable.
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CONNECTIONS: A spiraling economy will hurt everyone

Americans have rarely been pessimistic about our economy, and we were right. Every generation did better than the last. Until it didn’t—until now.
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CONNECTIONS: Stop talking about what is right and do right

If you think it is melodramatic to decide what is worth dying for, please, on this day if no other, let’s all think again.
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CONNECTIONS: Is there such a thing as bad publicity?

If there is no such thing as bad publicity, are we knowingly promoting the self-promoter?
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Finding an American aesthetic in the Berkshires

By the mid-19th century, the proud young country wanted a voice of its own. Over the next 50 years, it produced one.
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CONNECTIONS: Do we have an obligation to one another?

What is our political position? Do we force our fellows to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? Do we judge them as inadequate, stupid, or immoral if they are poor? Do we turn our backs and let them suffer?
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DATELINE STOCKBRIDGE: Part Two — Our history can guide us

If we stand together in the doorway of the federal building where some kids under orders from a billionaire are trying to fire people, we are probably doing as much as is necessary. To stop the steal? No, to stem the tide.
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CONNECTIONS: Part One — We have everything we need to prevail if we can find the will

Redefining is a central piece of any autocratic takeover.
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CONNECTIONS: We have all we need to prevail. We just need to stop wasting it.

We need to recognize potential. We need to truly understand prejudice, the purposeful misunderstanding and undervaluing of any group. We live in a land of plenty. That does not justify waste, but it enables it.
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CONNECTIONS: Uncertainty and destabilization are the road to our undoing

There is uncertainty in the markets, and nerves are frayed from Wall Street to Main Street.
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CONNECTIONS: When will we be ready to act?

In the first month of 2025, we stood slack-jawed as our house was set on fire. Perhaps we are waiting until the arsons leave and we can rebuild.
Life In the Berkshires

DATELINE STOCKBRIDGE: Coming to Naumkeag

It took 169 years to form the greatest democracy on Earth—the government of the Age of Enlightenment. It was born out a craving for religious freedom and matured into a government ruled by laws and the majority.
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CONNECTIONS: We need to use anticipation to resist our Narcissist in Chief

If we were people watching our house burn, we would save as much as we could, cede as little ground as possible, help one another as much as possible, coax and comfort.
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CONNECTIONS: In this fraught time, focus locally

It is important for us to feel relevant at a time when it is easy to feel small and impotent.
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CONNECTIONS: Democracy is manifested in a million tiny ways

The idea cannot be lost; the million manifestations must be articulated.
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