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NATURE’S TURN: Blizzard paints the high country

Every branch, twig, and evergreen leaf sported a white brushstroke before snow changed to freezing rain.

CONNECTIONS: Violence stalks the halls of Congress

It was, in its way, a precursor of the Civil War. The intensity of the fight for one side to preserve its wealth, power and way of life cannot be overstated.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Siege’ reveals the constant provocations, never-ending nastiness of the Trump administration

Episode after episode reveals a mean-spirited, self-absorbed bully who doesn’t read, study or listen to anyone who says anything he disagrees with.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Winter Tour

A trip to Chrystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, reminds our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala about the importance of good architecture, structure, and landscape design, especially in the dead of winter.

Amplifications: Women’s rights are human rights

Women are still not protected by the Constitution. The Equal Rights Amendment has never passed.

A NOVEL: ‘Over the Edge,’ Chapter 3

How can you figure out the truth when everyone is lying, and sometimes they don’t even know they’re lying?

Bill Irvin, 77, of Pittsfield, longtime teacher and administrator

He first worked as the coordinator of English, and then as curriculum and testing director, for Pittsfield Public Schools. He then returned to the classroom at Lenox Memorial High School.

CONNECTIONS: Discrimination, time-honored American practice

Here’s the thing: we have always been prejudiced. What we are prejudiced against does change, but man’s disapproval of man (and equally woman) is omnipresent. The church has always been the arbiter, and the consequences of disapproval have been more severe than being denied a slice with pepperoni.
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