Berkshire Natural History Conference presenters will include botanists/historians Maida Goodwin and Allison Bell, who will retrace the steps of 19th-century naturalist Grace Greylock Niles; and evolutionary biology student Jenks Hehmeyer, who will introduce the world of incredible organisms, including the Berkshires’ giant amoeba slime mold.
Pianist YeeJin Yuk will present two concerts featuring the work of Debussy, Ravel, Faure, Chopin and Dutilleux.
In 2017, Malcolm Wyer published “Community Supported Contamination,” a design proposal for managing PCB waste along the Housatonic River in Berkshire County, taking a firm stand against the out-of-state shipment of toxic waste.
Plants-and-Answers will include experts from Berkshire Botanical Garden’s staff and plant professionals who will answer design questions and provide practical advice on growing and caring for plants.
The candlelight vigil will remember the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and all Americans who have been killed or injured by guns since the event took place.
As the chair of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware, Douglas Tallamy studies how invasive species can disrupt local ecosystems and lead to the disappearance of both large and small animals.
The Mount has announced the recipients of the 2017 Edith Wharton Writers-in-Residence: Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and co-founder of the lifestyle media company Refinery29; author and screenwriter Donna M. Lucey; and award-winning novelist Vanessa Manko.
Conceived by Wilco and inaugurated in 2010, Solid Sound will present Wilco as hosts and headliners and will feature an eclectic, Wilco-selected musical lineup of indie, rock, jazz and more.
Three hours later the groups reassembled at the town’s gazebo, having collected more than 200 large bags of trash and recyclables which filled a truck to overflowing and most of a nearby dumpster.
In Boston, Alsop will deliver a letter he’s carried from the Berkshires in a quest for a clean Housatonic River, free of the PCBs that GE dumped there years ago.
Williams College will provide a bridge loan to the Williamstown Youth Center for a solar energy project that will supply the facility’s energy needs.
At the Lenox Library Holiday Pajama Night children can enjoy an evening of storytelling by community celebrities and music performed by David Grover.
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