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Sheela Clary

Sheela Clary is a writer and teacher born and raised in South Berkshire county. She's interested in exploring the issues that affect the region, and in building community through place-based storytelling classes and events. She teaches Italian language and cooking, as well. Her writing can also be found at her Substack newsletter, Clarity. (https://sheela.substack.com Clarity | Sheela Clary | Substack a periodic, carefully composed newsletter exploring my obsessions, such as the state of our common life in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the stories of unheard-from people, the beauties of Italian, and the mysteries of good writing. Click to read Clarity, by Sheela Clary, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago: sheela.substack.com

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Life In the Berkshires

WHERE WE ARE: Steve Bannon — ‘They needed people…’

I caught Steve Bannon for a sit-down as he had just come off a shift at Fairview Hospital, where both he and I were born, and where he has worked as a pharmacist for 17 years.
Business

BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Barrington Hall in Great Barrington

New owners, familiar address: The former Crissey Farm space is reborn as a flexible performance venue and community hub for private, corporate, and curated events.
Arts & Entertainment

‘3rd Gen’: Telling a Holocaust story through dance

Created and choreographed by Shany Dagan, "3rd Gen" tells the stories of her own Holocaust survivor grandparents.
Life In the Berkshires

WHERE WE ARE: Molly and Aurélien de St. Andre of Bon Dimanche/Petit Pilou

The fun, bright, and bold cacti, pasta shapes, dogs and pineapple designs from Molly and Aurel’s Petit Pilou clothing line have become a staple feature of South County fashion for babies, kids, and adults as well.
Life In the Berkshires

WHERE WE ARE: Eric Martin, from Mennonite country to Gould Farm community

Martin is well known as a fiddler for local contra dancing groups, a busy music teacher, as well as a long-time member of the maintenance team at Gould Farm, the nation’s first residential therapeutic community for people with mental health challenges.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: The decent take is the right take

Credibility is in the eye of the beholder, and the beholders are mostly political partisans who seek out information curated to confirm their priors.
Viewpoints

Memorandum of Understanding between Good Drivers and Bad Drivers

The Parties have determined that the current state of affairs, with Good Drivers behaving abusively and the Bad Drivers causing undue delays and accidents, is unsustainable.
Life In the Berkshires

WHERE WE ARE: Holli Stanton of Cafe Holli

"There's a soul to a coffee shop," says Cafe Holli owner Holli Stanton.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Claude and I — An RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) love story

I could surely do the job of convincing my teacher friends and relatives that Claude is their friend and not the herald of the apocalypse.
Life In the Berkshires

WHERE WE ARE: Gordy Soule, a true local

Long-time Monument Mountain Regional High School social studies teacher Gordy Soule is one of those locals whose ancestors have been settled in southern Berkshire County so long that no living family member is quite sure which great-great-grandparent came over from where, or when.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: The new faithful

The successful November 4 vote on a new Monument has me thinking, unexpectedly, about the extraordinary role of an American public school.
Life In the Berkshires

WHERE WE ARE: Liana Toscanini — Famous name, familiar face, and local nonprofit connector extraordinaire

I decided to learn the story of how Liana came to play such a central role in the Berkshire County economy and what it is like having a music legend as an ancestor.
Arts & Entertainment

PREVIEW: New film asks, ‘How can we help young people feel like this is a place where you can create a life?’

"Impact in the Berkshires" centers on the work of the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire (CDCSB) and features interviews with about two dozen local business owners, legislators, residents of CDCSB-managed properties, and the organization’s board and staff.
Life In the Berkshires

WHERE WE ARE: Historian Gary Leveille

I chose Gary as one of my first profiles in my "Where We Are" series because I know I am not alone in finding “Then & Now” delightful, and I wanted to learn more about the man behind it.
Life In the Berkshires

WHERE WE ARE: Wendy Fay of Otis

I had noticed Wendy Fay for her easygoing, take-charge manner, even in the face of grumpy clientele. Then one day, I overheard her say she had been in the military, and my curiosity was piqued.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Toward a better state of debate

Charlie Kirk has now vacated the debate stage. It is empty once again. Who will fill it? Who should it be, and how?
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