The moon has been an important subject in English poetry dating back to Chaucer in the 14th century, who was an astronomer as well as a poet. There is a crater on the far side of the moon named for Chaucer.
The Children’s Study Home will celebrate the opening of its Berkshire campus, located at the site of the former Eagleton School, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 29.
A young company of players, accompanied by a solo piano and a violin, are presenting this Pulitzer Prize-, Tony Award-winning show and, to my utter surprise, are doing a fine job in a small theater whose intimacy should work against a big Broadway musical.
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.
Having grown up on a farm in Maryland, Merrill has a deep and abiding respect for all animals, especially as they have become scarcer on Berkshire farms.
Puppeteer Carl Sprague will use his marionettes to bring to life the classic fairy tale “Rapunzel” at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, with performances Monday Dec. 28 and Wednesday Dec. 30.
