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HomeLife In the BerkshiresCONNECTIONS: Temporarily disconnected

CONNECTIONS: Temporarily disconnected

It is unbelievable to me, but this year I wrote my 500th column.

I am taking leave to work on a new project. It is unbelievable to me, but this year I wrote my 500th column. The Berkshire Edge’s editor in chief, David Scribner, has suggested a wonderful way to mark the occasion: The best of the 500 will be collected into what folks always call “a slim volume.” I will be working on that and, if you would like to be part of the process, let me know your choices. What column did you like reading the first time, and which might you like reading again? No worries: “You know, the one about…” is good enough. Have a warm and wonderful holiday season, and we will reconnect in 2019.

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BITS & BYTES: Luis Vargas-Santiago at The Clark; ‘Hoop Dreams’ at The Crandell; ‘Chat GBPT’ at St. James Place; Berkshire Waldorf High School presents...

By positing the notion of "Sur Marica" as a decolonial site that resists both hetero- and homonormativity, Vargas-Santiago outlines a mobile cartography of visual art that fluidly redefines national, racial, and sexual identities while creating spaces of freedom and political expression.

Sheffield Land Trust teams up with Greenagers and local funders to create accessible trail in Ashley Falls

Now, those confined to a wheelchair can venture down the 0.3-mile trail past meadows and into lush woods, ending amid some dramatic limestone outcroppings that make this area of Sheffield a hotspot of biodiversity for rare ferns and plants.

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