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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

Monument Mountain students bring ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to Shakespeare & Company’s Fall Festival

2024 marks the 36th year of the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, and more than 500 students at 10 high schools in the region are participating in one of its most highly anticipated win-wins of the year.
Business

BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Acqua al 2—a long-running Florence eatery lands in West Stockbridge

Named after the original restaurant's location in Italy, the Berkshire outpost is the fourth to open in the U.S., joining San Diego, Washington, D.C., and Annapolis.
Life In the Berkshires

Filling hungry bellies: The Food Box Program at Berkshire Hills Regional School District

Through her work, Burke has gotten front-row seats to this resort region’s real, and worsening, hunger problem. “I can’t tell you how many people tell me this program is a lifesaver. They’ll tell me, ‘My husband and I both have two jobs, and we still can’t make ends meet.’”
Life In the Berkshires

Ninth graders learn all about South County’s favorite subject: Bears

This article is part of a regular series out of Berkshire Hills Regional School District in which we share student and staff news and...
Life In the Berkshires

United Basketball has the most fun

To enter the Monument Mountain gym when the Unified basketball team has a game is to leave the troubled world behind and join in a party. “Everyone in Berkshire County should come to one of these games,” says coach Alyssa Sorrentino, “anyone who needs to perk up a little bit.”
Life In the Berkshires

PROFILE: Theresa Girona, W.E.B. Du Bois paraprofessional at Berkshire Hills Regional School District

In an interview, Theresa Girona says she got into the job, which she loves, by accident.
Life In the Berkshires

Great Barrington’s Halloween window tradition marks its 75th anniversary

According to artist Eunice Agar, 1952 graduate of the former Searles High School on Bridge Street, it was her hardworking art teacher Doris Whittaker Grey who kicked off the tradition in 1949.
Life In the Berkshires

Dewey Hall’s second annual Dahlia Festival delights

The dahlia festival is the brainchild of Dewey Hall board member and local landscape designer Wenonah Webster, who said her motivation had to do with the particularly beautiful aesthetics of dahlias, yes, but also a lot to do with inclusion. “We wanted an event that was open to everyone.”
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Texts with (political) friends

Natalie Jane, this is Barack Obama.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Can We?

The making of a mother is cataclysmic. It is an earthquake-for-two that shakes the world and leaves it permanently transformed.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: I went to the river

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." — Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Taking up the challenge

I started this written reflection because I thought it would be a nice way to get some publicity for an excellent organization, but I realize I also have a more self-serving aim.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: The Ten Commandments of the Berkshire summer season

Thou shalt not take the name JT in vain. Nor that of AG—Arlo Guthrie—though ‘tis not his season.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Lies and truth

Among the tragic ironies of failing to say out loud what you know to be true is that you don’t learn until it is too late that most people agreed with you.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Thoughts on my 52nd birthday

Of course I still have friends, and I will spend the evening celebrating with some special ones, but the gift of being 52, I am discovering, is to realize the pleasure to be had in doing nothing apart from standing still and looking at things.
Life In the Berkshires

FAQs for new (and repeat) arrivals from the City to the Country (Summer 2024 edition)

We, representatives of the Liaison of Concerned Ladies (or LOCaL), sense in the warm/chilly/perfect/much-too-hot air an opportunity to respond anew to your questions.
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