The things that attract young telecommuting families are changed by their coming, and in an effort to accommodate them, we create the things they travelled here to escape.
In a letter to the editor, Elliott Morss writes: "Would spending serious money marketing the Berkshires help to spur tourism? Maybe. But maybe we should just carry on and try to avoid 'messing things up.'"
We continue to read the deaths of our children, relatives, friends and neighbors from the drug epedimic, escalating gun violence, and domestic violence and sexual assault at alarming rates.
In her letter to the editor Darcie Sosa writes: "Our two cities, North Adams and Pittsfield, have some the highest crime rates in the state. How did we let this happen?"
Development and marketing of a book proposal, based on true crime stories -- in which the student authors explore actual crimes -- was the basis of MacLean’s workshop.
If you’ve ever thought that “the contemporary art world is in many respects a criminal enterprise,” then you shouldn’t miss this talk on August 6, for this is exactly the sort of idea that Richard Vine will be exploring.
The fact is that in 1863 a hanging in Berkshire County was entertainment. People came to Gallows Hill in Lenox by the thousands. Fathers brought children; mothers brought picnic lunches.
