“We are filming at the house in Great Barrington where [my mother] lived and died," Joe Symons said of the short film. "It will be a hard experience for me. But it will also be very healing. It will be a final send-off for her, making peace with both her life and death."
Classically trained clarinetist Green was both surprised and honored by the news, in particular because he only began playing jazz seriously in 2007, when he was already in his 50s.
Every breakfast and lunch in the Muddy Brook cafeteria is served on single-use plastic or paper and, at the end, it’s all dumped into the trash. While all of it is recyclable, none of it is recycled. Among other items, that’s 37,170 plastic spoons alone headed for the landfill.