The film, which is a bit too leisurely, is less focused on individual character than on community and extended family—forces that, alongside a distant and repressive government, define their lives.
Since joining the Generosity Economy, I’ve been spending less money — especially on food and clothing. But I’ve also changed the way I approach purchasing things in general. I think longer before simply buying something new, asking myself, Do I really need this thing? How much is it worth to me? Is this something my community can provide?
Karen Smith is packing up 100 solar powered lights, “so people don’t have to buy kerosene every night, which is very expensive." And much of what she is bringing, Smith says, comes from the “incredible generosity” of Berkshire locals and businesses. Southern Berkshire Volunteer Ambulance, Fairview Hospital have donated medical supplies, and dentist Bob Edwards at Delair, Edwards & Krol, donated dental supplies.
In order to secure child support, the unwed mother had to repeatedly say the name the father in the hearing of the midwife during labor. During labor, over and over again, the midwife asked any unmarried mother to identify the father. It was believed that any answer given during “her travail” was equivalent to a deathbed confession.
A little more than an hour after the hit and run, the driver, Dylan Winters of Canaan, Conn., turned himself in. He walked into the Great Barrington Police Station, and told police he left his car at the Sheffield Pottery.
It will suit us well to remember no clergy, no zealot, nor king had any hand in what may have or may not have happened that April, October, February, or December night.
"We’re a theater company that develops new plays. So it stood to reason (at least in my mind at 1 a.m.) that we should at the very least be entertaining in our appeal and do what we do best … present new plays. And thus, a fund-raising idea was born."
-- BPL Artistic Co-Director Joe Cacaci
"The cosmos, for me, is a vast space to explore for both beauty and science. The beauty is self-evident…. The science is important to help understand the place humankind has in the universe and even in daily life."
-- Astrophotographer Kent DeGroff
Premarital sex was sanctioned and encouraged when two people were engaged to be married so the couple could determine beforehand if the marriage would be fruitful. What the women in the fornication trials were actually being punished for was not the act but failing to marry the man afterward.
For the most part he enjoyed the secrecy, as though he were absurdly undermining the conventions insisting upon his loneliness — his lostness, his girlfriend, his future in the world, his security, the shame upon his habit.
Clean energy is the fastest growing part of the Massachusetts economy, providing 88,000 jobs thus far. If the low estimate cost of the pipeline were directed towards investment in clean energy, it could generate approximately 24,000 permanent jobs.
-- Rosemary Wessel, of No Fracked Gas in Mass
“We have the district that we want to have... the right size...the right programs...there are a lot of fabulous things going on...we just want to do justice to our member towns in terms of...equal, fair pay.”
--Berkshire Hills School Committee member Fred Clark
According to Great Barrington Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin, the shows — each with millions of viewers -- reached out to the newly formed Great Barrington Film Office at Town Hall and are now working closely with the Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative and the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce.
You hold an unsullied, childish notion that your soul, once breaking free of mortal restraint, will move on the wings of wind in the company of Dolly and other beloved creatures who have left the Earth.
"We are always working on multiple funding streams: grants from many sources and direct fundraising from individuals and businesses. We're an all-volunteer effort, working as a community to build a community resource. We'll keep working.”
-- Great Barrington Fairgrounds Co-founder Janet Elsbach, after GBFG application was rejected for being late
