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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: We shouldn’t be surprised that we still have to fight for democracy — even after 249 years

I don’t know how we arrived at a place where we thought everyone would support democracy because it was an intellectually superior form of government. All of human history contradicts that notion.
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CONNECTIONS: Hugh Page resigns

Character assassination has no place in the government or politics of Stockbridge.
Life In the Berkshires

DATELINE STOCKBRIDGE: History Repeats

One nice thing about history repeating itself is that we can learn what happens next.
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: No Kings Rally

If the people believe in natural, inalienable rights, they have a moral obligation to resist the government's denial of those rights.
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CONNECTIONS: Bring back civics

If civics is dead, if the civility that underpins it and the citizenship that insists upon it are dead, then democracy is dead.
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CONNECTIONS: It is 132 days in America, and we are still fighting

Now the problem is not only Trump—it is also us. Now we have accepted Trumpian norms and values. He has changed us. We have not, in any way, changed him. He was immune to us; we were susceptible to him.
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CONNECTIONS: What I want to do with the time left

All at once, I knew what I wanted to do—no matter how much time I had remaining. I wanted to preserve and protect our land, our history, our lives, and if not our way of life, then a clear record of it.
Life In the Berkshires

DATELINE STOCKBRIDGE: The Hoffmann’s of Stockbridge (Part Three — Irene)

In the 105 years, from Ferdinand’s permanent removal to Stockbridge and Irene’s death, the Hoffmanns of Stockbridge contributed to their hometown and helped make it the beautiful village it is today.
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: The Hoffmann’s of Stockbridge (Part Two — Bernard)

This Stockbridge native was committed to beauty in his hometown and endeavored to assist in village planning and improvement supporting the Laurel Hill Association, the new library, and hiring Frederick Law Olmsted to design his own garden.
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Ferdinand Hoffman, from Suhi to Stockbridge (Part One)

Six Stockbridge ladies joined together to form a club to save at least one Hungarian refugee. Their plan was to invite a refugee to Stockbridge to be housed and fed during the winter. Henry Sedgwick sent Ferdinand Hoffmann.
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CONNECTIONS: A noble calling — hooray for local news

Let nothing more weighty than the size of a match box and the number of letters it could hold limit local news reporting in these tense times.
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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.
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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?
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