“We don’t see as much agriculture here as you would in a different part of the country,” Sean Stanton explained; as a result, “you end up with people wondering why the cows are outside in the snow and not understanding how their systems work.” Read More
Emily Edelman - Most likely the first of their gender as women performing together, Concerto delle Donne revolutionized the role of women in professional music. Read More
Andrew D. Blechman - The story of Robin Helfand, and her eponymous candy store in Great Barrington was read by more than two million Wall Street Journal readers this Tuesday and the story was far more sweet than sour. Read More
Phil Holland - The end of a perfect day! And there's always next year. Read More
Phil Holland - Lunch, cocktails and dinner on our day of chocolate extravaganza! Enjoy! Read More
Allen Harris - Still, for many investors, significant concerns remain. Some fear that the advance has been nothing more than a rally in a bear market and the Christmas Eve lows will be revisited. Others fear that stock prices have gone “too far, too fast” and now the market is vulnerable to familiar headwinds such as trade talks, slowing earnings growth rates, a government shutdown, or any other of the recent favorites. Read More
Phil Holland - “The fear that black families have when their children leave the house is the same as it was in 1909 [when the NAACP was founded].” -- Dennis Powell, president of Berkshire County NAACP Read More
Ellen Lahr - Paula Lynn Ely spends part of each day looking through a microscope, examining amoebas, flagellates, ciliates and other microscopic organisms that feed on and break down wastewater as part of the treatment process. Read More
Sheela Clary - In the push for medical cannabis approval in 2012 in Massachusetts, and then to the passage of recreational in 2016, the ACLU, Drug Policy Alliance and others stressed the racial and class disparities of the war on drugs. It is a fair guess that many of the more than 60 percent of Berkshire County voters who checked “yes” on the 2016 ballot question did so at least in part to help right these wrongs. Read More
Rochelle O'Gorman - The organization formed in 2002 when retired nurse Marsha Wallace, a mother of four from Greenville, North Carolina, read an article about friends who met for potluck dinners and donated the money that would have been spent on restaurant meals. Read More
Phil Holland - Valentine's Day starts with hot chocolate from Chocolate Springs. Yum!! Read More
