Springfield Museums presents “Here Be Dragons,” a one-of-a-kind immersive exhibition that brings visitors face-to-face with live reptiles, touchable models, and paleontological discoveries that blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
Bits and bytes of news: No. Six Depot needs your vote; Muddy Brook PTA wins national award; peace and yoga on the shore of Lake Mansfield; Gina Hyams seeks Tanglewood picnic recipes.
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge built a concert hall on her property with 500 seats and outstanding fine acoustics. It was 1918 and the Berkshire Music Festival at South Mountain, Pittsfield, was born.
The Harvest Supper represents community and strengthens the bonds between chefs and farmers who have just finished a hard and rewarding season together.
-- Daire Rooney, chef at Allium in Great Barrington
Video cameras will be observing vehicular (and pedestrian) traffic during the Main Street Reconstruction. But who will be watching, and who will watch them?
“The arrival of that first train is an event to be remembered; it had been expected in the afternoon of the preceding day, and hundreds of people had gathered in the street to witness it.”
-- Historian Charles J. Taylor
"It is a quite unique to be able to share world-class talent in such a warm, intimate space, a 700-seat theater in a rural community, where you can walk down the hill to get to the theater and then see somebody who has been on some of the world’s best stages."
-- Beryl Jolly
When we use herbs and spices in food, they are an excellent tonic for promoting good health -- and a source of great pleasure by adding amazing flavor.
In 1774, a successful act of civil disobedience resulted in the forceful closing of the court at Great Barrington and in the raising of a Berkshire militia. When the shot was fired at Lexington in 1775, Berkshire was ready.
Over the past decade or so, Great Barrington has emerged as a mini-culinary capital in New England. Michael Ballon has been at the forefront of our growing culinary awareness, appreciation and practices.
“There is a generation of young people eager to farm; however, they do not know where to turn.”
-- Lisa MacDougall of Mighty Food Farm, a 2009 Microloan recipient
We focus on small-batch production and locally made goods. We are trying to create a unique shopping experience in Great Barrington.
-- One Mercantile co-owner, Abby Webster
