Six Stockbridge ladies joined together to form a club to save at least one Hungarian refugee. Their plan was to invite a refugee to Stockbridge to be housed and fed during the winter. Henry Sedgwick sent Ferdinand Hoffmann.
“One of the main objectives of the festival is to include and engage the audience in new and exciting ways – and to include the wider Berkshire community.”
--- Sandy Cleary, director of the Daniel Arts Center at Bard College at Simon’s Rock
The goal of the Local Farmer Awards is to strengthen farmers’ abilities to compete in the marketplace so that the region benefits from the environmental, health, and economic advantages of local farming.