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PREVIEW: Schubert’s “Winterreise” with Philip Lima and Noah Palmer at Trinity Church, Sunday, Feb. 16

The "Winterreise" cycle is considered one of the greatest achievements of classical song. It is revered for its emotional depth and poetic power.

Going out on a limb with the Laurel Hill Association, 1868

The opening lines of Margaret French Cresson’s 1953 100th anniversary history of the Laurel Hill Association, with the heroine on a white horse, give the often-told and possibly apocryphal tale of the catalyze that created the oldest continuously operating village improvement society in America in 1853.

CONNECTIONS: Berkshire road trip! Part II

Lenox is known as a Gilded Age resort and many of the mansions are restored and open.

CONNECTIONS: A tour of Berkshire abodes

Berkshire County is particularly interesting as an architectural exhibit. Given New England practicality or parsimony or respect for our history, we didn’t always tear down and build new: We save our old houses.

History markers in curious places: A quiz for Berkshire explorers

Why are we honoring a massacre? On the other hand, how many monuments are there to Native American maltreatment? It’s a rare admission of how fiercely we wrestled New England from its indigenous people.

Roundabout history at the Red Lion Inn intersection

In the middle of the intersection, on what started out as a quiet Sunday morning 241 years ago, there was a call to arms.

LOOKING BACK: Is Stockbridge at an intersection?

It is not without some irony that the town of Stockbridge, which harbors such an incredible history, has failed on so many occasions to preserve the symbols of that history.

CONNECTIONS: Letters from an unforgiving wilderness: Stockbridge, 1749

Isolation and treacherous country were not the only challenges. In actual fact, it was a deadly land. Only the adventurous and strong came to Berkshire.

Connections: Race relations — then and now. How Indian Town became Stockbridge  

It was robbery but it was not armed robbery. If you take land from an indigenous people by trickery, is it morally superior to taking it by force?
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