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Relay for Life of Berkshire County returns on June 28

Last year, the event was held outside at Monument Mountain's track. However, four hours into the event, a microburst storm hit the track, destroying the event area. This year, event organizer Ray Gardino told The Berkshire Edge they are not taking any chances and will hold the event indoors.

LEONARD QUART: Tactless Trump in London

His aggressive intrusion into British politics only heightened the anger of a large portion of the British public.

POEM: Anonymous concrete

British-born poet and artist John Lawson expresses his reaction to this week's Brexit vote to have England leave the European Union.

Sandisfield Players taking ‘Our Town’ to Minack Theatre in Cornwall, England.

The 26 cast members of The Sandisfield Players will travel from the rural enclave of Sandisfield, Massachusetts to the famed Minack Theatre, a 750 seat open-air amphitheater that juts into the Atlantic Ocean.

Art Review: Machine Age Modernism, extraordinary prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection, at the Clark

We should congratulate curator Jay A. Clarke and her team for putting together this eye-opening exhibition of their work, and in particular for drawing attention to Sybil Andrews (1898-1992), a largely forgotten artist of the first rank.

KALCHEIM: Shameful lessons from Dresden 

During World War II in the European theatre, surely the Allied air forces of Britain and America would not have been so barbaric, and imprudent, as the Germans, so as to target civilian populations, all on the bogus precept of weakening enemy morale. Or would they?

The Queen’s English is dead

Thoughts on coming back to the U.S from Britain: " An American who attempts to use his/ her language with grace, clarity and gentleness, in both his enunciation of words, and his turn of phrase, is thought, if not to be British, then to have something distinctly British about him."
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