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Arts & Entertainment

Book Review: Field Light

Reviewer Joan Embree calls Owen Lewis’s “Field Light” “an exquisitely rendered portrait of the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts” in poetry and prose.

by Joan Embree
Posted on July 4, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Annual Monument Mountain hike; Community feast in Housatonic; StoryCorps at the Mahaiwe; New Lebanon animal-centered group

Berkshire community members are invited to record their own conversations with a family member, friend, or colleague. A trained team of StoryCorps facilitators will be in Great Barrington to formally record up to 18 stories.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on July 30, 2015
Environment

Monument Mountain preserve, trails extended to village of Housatonic

“Open space is the industry. It promotes wellness, provides community, and lends itself to a happy, healthy society.”
— Ethan Culleton, who sold 45 acres on the western slope of Monument Mountain, including Flag Rock, to the Trustees of Rserversations.

by Heather Bellow
Posted on August 21, 2014
Viewpoints

Connections: How the Berkshires became a cultural center

Author’s Note about ‘Connections’: Love it or hate it, history is a map. Those who hate history think it irrelevant; many who love history treat it as escapism. In truth, history is the clearest road map to how we got here: America 2014. Far removed and sparsely populated, the Berkshires has a disproportionate number of artists

by Carole Owens
Posted on April 22, 2014
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