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PREVIEW: Berkshire Bach Society to screen ‘In the Key of Bach’ at Linde Center on March 21

Following the screening, filmmaker Hilan Warshaw joins BBS artistic director and violinist Eugene Drucker for a conversation about Bach’s life, music, and the ideas behind the documentary.

CONNECTIONS: Culture in the country, culture in the city

The Sketch Club was founded by Berkshire native and Great Barrington attorney William Cullen Bryant. With friends, Bryant transformed the Sketch Club into the Century Association.

CONNECTIONS: Stonover Farm and the Sugar Trust scandal

Berkshire cottager John E. Parsons was 80 years old when he was indicted, with a 60-year career in the law. The year before, in 1908, the New York Times reported “Parsons is believed to have the finest law practice in the country.”

CONNECTIONS: The cruelest cut for tree-loving Stockbridge

So by those calculations, Stockbridge just lost between $200,000 and $400,000 when it cut down a 100-year-old tree.
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