Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.
The Williams convocation speaker is Michael Curtin, CEO of D.C. Central Kitchen, whose programs provide millions of healthy meals to at-risk populations.
"Many people don't realize that Berkshire South Regional Community Center is a nonprofit organization, with dues and fees making up only 60 percent of our costs to operate.
-- Jenise Lucey, Berkshire South’s executive director
Stefan Asbury has served on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center and currently holds the Sana H. Sabbagh master teacher chair on the Conducting Faculty which he has held since 2005.
“I never heard her play a single note that was not filled with care, meaning and communicative power. She always had something urgent, beautiful and deeply personal to say through her music.”
-- Evan Rothstein, Deputy Head of Strings at the Guildhall School of Music in London
Has the “species purity” movement gotten out of hand, categorizing undesirable plants and animals, even earthworms, as invasive? Next thing you know its adherents will be calling for the elimination of apple trees as an alien species.
“I thought it was important to portray the subjects of this story primarily with old-fashioned black and white film, since this is a venerable relationship between the farms and these traditional breeds which is now being rekindled. Many of the portraits I was able to create have an antique feel and seem to speak through the centuries.”
-- Photographer Erik Hoffner, whose photo exhibit is now on view at Galerie Giroux in Great Barrington
