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Welcome to Real Estate Friday!

Selina lamb of BIRCH Properties offers an elegantly expanded brick Federal in the heart of the Berkshires—an opportunity to own a masterfully designed estate that balances history, artistry, and nature. See how architect Pamela Sandler transformed a lake house on the shores of Lake Onota. A report on real estate sales in the first quarter of 2025. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.

Introduction to a New Column.

Introducing a new bi-weekly series, a kind of Berkshire Poetry Protection Program that would offer cultural affirmation, a necessary degree of solace and uplift, and overall, a wealth of joy and pleasure in troubled times.

Patrick Burns, 80, of Sheffield, former president of the Friends of Bushnell-Sage Library

He was president of the Friends of Bushnell-Sage Library in Sheffield, a member of the Sheffield Historical Society and its finance committee, and of the Sheffield Land Trust.

From the Berkshires Jeff Wallman preserves Tibetan culture — digitally

“Tibetan is no longer an endangered language thanks to some of our efforts. You have to understand the works we are preserving are literature; they are like the dialogues of Plato.” --- Jeff Wallman, executive director of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center in Cambridge

Scott Christianson, 69, of Great Barrington, renowned investigative journalist

Scott is widely known and admired for his fearless truth-telling, passion for social justice and deep, loving soul.

HEADS UP: Altering genes, human and otherwise, made easy

The new gene editing technology is so simple and straightforward that a bright grad student with a good teacher can learn to use CRISPR-Cas9 in a matter of weeks.
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The Edge Is Free To Read.

But Not To Produce.