Thursday, January 23, 2025

News and Ideas Worth Sharing

Out & About

Season of Light

Transforming Darkness With a Cozy Glow

Show and Sell: Antique fairs and festivals

Editor's Note: This Resource Guide is a companion to our article "The Thrill of the HUNT", from the August-October, 2022, issue of Out &...

The Thrill of the HUNT

Vintage shops for every age and era in the greater Berkshires

Resource Guide: Vintage and antique shops

A good list of places to shop for Vintage and Antiques in the Berkshires.

Good Local Grub

Where to go for burgers, tacos, and other “fan foods”

Entertaining 2.0

Another holiday season is here—and with it a palpable (and pent-up) desire to gather with family and friends. Time to dust off the cookbooks, stock the larder, and brush up on your hosting skills. It is also an opportune moment, after a protracted hiatus, to rethink what entertaining looks like now.

The Bennington Museum mounts ‘Robert Frost: At Present in Vermont’

Visitors should expect a close encounter with the poet, beginning with a 9-foot-high image of the 47-year-old Frost, looking more like a farmer than a man of letters.

Road trip? ‘Guide to Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios’ is the perfect companion

We are all creative when we are young, whether we dance or we finger paint. A visit to these homes and studios, some right in our back yard, might just get those creative juices flowing again.

Art in Public Places

Want to feel COVID-safe while enjoying good art outside? Here are places throughout the Berkshires that will welcome you this summer.

Berkshire Reads, May 2021

Five books with Berkshires connections for your spring and summer reading pleasure.

Spring ushers in new Berkshire Grown Winter Farmers Markets

Farmers are essential to the character of the Berkshires. It’s a treat to know them, and an even greater treat to have access to...

Arrowhead, the Pittsfield farmhouse that gave birth to ‘Moby-Dick’

A suggestion from Berkshires Calendar magazine for an interesting place in the Berkshires to visit, even in the days of COVID.

Berkshire Grown Winter Farmers Markets Continue

Get great produce and keep farmers farming in the Berkshires.

Shop Local on Etsy

If you must shop online, at least patronize local Berkshires artists and artisans.

Berkshire Reads

“Berkshire Reads”, a new feature in our online Magazine Section, introduces you to wonderful local writers whose books can transport you to new places and new ideas.

The Joys of Shopping Local: Give a Little Berkshires’ Love

Forget Amazon. Shop local. Show you care for your community as well as for your friends and family.

Black Berkshires: A hidden and not-so-hidden legacy

The story of being Black in the Berkshires is largely untold. It’s a legacy of injustices endured, freedom attained, of human hatred and human kindness, of lasting yet dissipating segregation...