I am sure that everyone reading this will know someone who has made an indelible impression on their community and their lives.
Tag: Copake
Bits & Bytes: Gedney Farm sculpture show; Hershey Felder livestream; photography workshop; intergenerational conversation series; virtual staged reading
Gedney Farm exhibits sculpture by artist Susan Clinard New Marlborough — On Saturday, July 11, from 1 to 8 p.m., Gedney Farm will host an opening reception for “Reflection on Our Times,” a show of sculpture by New Haven, Connecticut, artist Susan Clinard. Award-winning artist Clinard’s emotionally provocative work has been exhibited in public domains
Bits & Bytes: Juneteenth virtual reading; RYSE in October; ‘Ride for Roots Rising’; virtual staged reading
To help support the market, Roots Rising has launched the socially distant bike ride challenge “Ride for Roots Rising.”
Alan Chartock: I Publius. The wonder of Tanglewood
Tanglewood, of course, is not the whole story. COVID-19 is killing the arts scene in the Berkshires.
Bits & Bytes: ‘In the Meantime’; IPPY Award for Bergman; virtual staged reading; young playwrights program
Mac-Haydn Theatre launches ‘In the Meantime’ webcast series Chatham, N.Y. — Mac-Haydn Theatre has announced the launch of “In the Meantime,” a weekly webcast series hosted by producing artistic director John Saunders, as part of the Mac-Haydn Online virtual programming initiative. The series will premiere Friday, May 22, at noon and continue subsequent Fridays at
Bits & Bytes: Shakespeare book launch; #ArtWeekAtHome; Mother’s Day video series; virtual staged reading
The reimagined format replaces the original ArtWeek, which would have featured almost 800 creative events in over 170 communities across the state, including many free events for families, children, residents and visitors.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Branches’ livestream; ‘Home Is 2020’ call for art; virtual staged reading
Since it is not currently possible to gather at the museum due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19, the workshops have been reimagined and the public is invited to make art on the meaning of home while they are at home.
Bits & Bytes: Pet food drive-through; Virtual Staged Readings Series; tranquil music for the community
The pet foodbank is one of the programs Berkshire Humane Society offers to help keep pets in their homes and out of the shelter.
Alan Chartock: I Publius — Tell them now
There are a number of things to think about here. One is that there are people who played a profound part in your life and you really need to get back in touch and tell them that.
Birth announcement: A Christmas baby boy
A baby boy born on Christmas at Farview Hospital in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Lorinda Mazur, 72, of Richmond
Lorinda was the first woman elected to the Unites States Telephone Association board of directors as well as chairperson of USTA’s Government Relations Committee, testifying on behalf of the telecommunications industry before the U.S. Congress, receiving an award from USTA for her service.
NATURE’S TURN: Woodpeckers eat winterberries, worms eat cabbages, we graze on greens and sunflower seeds
November 4 -17, 2019 Mount Washington — There, to the left, 20 feet above the ground, see a great bird with broad black wings folding into a V for landing, as a woodpecker would, vertically on the trunk of a tree. Yes, it is the pileated woodpecker! But the magnificent bird, a foot and a
Bits & Bytes: Hancock Shaker Village Country Fair; rescheduled Berkshire Jazz Showcase; tree care talk; Kung Fu at the Colonial; Community Conversations recap
The ‘Save a Tree’ workshop will focus on supporting the health of the red oak adjacent to River Walk on Bridge Street.
Bits & Bytes: Hidden Gardens tour; Northeast Fiddlers’ Convention; Hopped Up for Health; ‘Art for a Fragile Planet’
Adhering to the concept of ‘participation is preservation,’ the Northeast Fiddlers’ Convention will feature the Down Hill Strugglers with John Cohen as the host musicians
Business Briefs: WAM Theatre donations; Jane Iredale joins Bergforf Goodman; Local Farmers Awards; Goodwill grand opening; Race Mt. Tree Services Career Day
The Local Farmer Awards recently gave $142,500 in amounts up to $2,500 to 62 farmers in western Massachusetts and eastern New York for materials and equipment to make infrastructure improvements.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Great Barrington Citizens’ Show & Tell’; ‘Successful Aging’ talk; photography workshop; May Day celebration; Roe Jan Library community conversations
In the talk, Dr. Benjamin Liptzin will describe ways to successfully age physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, and will review the latest science behind living longer and better.
Bits & Bytes: W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture; Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award for Ochoa; Farm Film Fest; ‘Stranger in the Attic’ reading
Farm Film Fest will screen films that educate and entertain about farms, farming, farmers and farming issues both local and national.
THEATRE REVIEW: The Two of Us Productions’ ‘Terms of Endearment’ a unique answer to an episodic, short-winded script
One of the things about this play that the production tries to answer is the constant rerouting of our attention.
Over the Border: N.Y. State Properties
Lindsay Lebrecht of Copake Lake Realty offers a selection of beautiful N.Y. state properties!
Bits & Bytes: Holiday farmers’ markets; ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at Shake & Co.; Unsilent Night; ‘Real People, Real Stories’; ‘The Supernatural World in the 1700s’
‘Real People, Real Stories’ draws storytellers from the local community and is performed twice each year.
NATURE’S TURN: On the cusp of winter, Turtle Tree Seeds turns toward spring
Last week, on the eve of the deepest chill and wind chill of the season, I reached into reserves of dogged determination to secure my harvest of fennel, dill, peppers, French sorrel, amaranth and most of the turnips.
Bits & Bytes: BSO on BBC; ‘The Constitution Demands It’; pianist Lin at Berkshire Music School; Copake history talk
Prior to co-founding Free Speech For People, John Bonifaz served as the executive director and general counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute, and as the legal director of Voter Action, a national election integrity organization.
Marilyn Bailey, 84, of Copake, New York
Marilyn, along with her husband, Frank, worked and camped at Prospect Lake Park in North Egremont for over 30 years.
Bits & Bytes: Hilltown Open Studio Tour; ‘A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.’ screening; CEWM solstice party; mill history talk; Greenagers to dedicate garden beds
Using photos of the 19th-century mills and factories, historian John Dickson will reveal the story of the people who harnessed the power of streams and rivers to make a living for their families.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Looking Ahead to Middle School’; BHS benefit pancake breakfast; ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ auditions
After weeks of specialized care in multiple hospitals, Hermanski is making improvements and recently regained the abilities to move her limbs, breathe on her own again and speak.
Over the Border: Properties in New York and Connecticut
In this week’s “What’s on the Market” we are hopping across state lines! Check out these beautiful Connecticut and New York properties!
Yet again, the town tries to sell the dormant Housatonic School
An independent study submitted to the town in 2012 by a building consultant found that any developer looking to renovate the school is facing a liability of at least $850,000 in required remediation of just the asbestos and lead paint hazards.
The Rev. David B. Rogers, 71, of North Egremont
David joined the Navy in the fall of 1963. He was based out of Long Beach, Calif., and served in Vietnam as a radar technician aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown.
Ruth Collins Bulkeley Miles, 72, of Mount Washington
Ruth was dedicated to holistic and herbal medicine, as well as to her garden. With her husband, she lived a simple, Thoreauvian life, loving the outdoors.
NATURE’S TURN: Seeding our gardens, caring for the earth
“To grow healthy food requires a vibrant diversity of plants, animals and soil life. These form the immune system of your land that together help each other to sustain the farm. The soil we work with as part of a farm organism needs our help to be healthy.”
— Lia Babitch, seed garden manager at Turtle Tree Seed