The event was a big success—collecting almost 50 Christmas trees and other holiday greens and multiple boxes of food donations and $1,700 for the Lee Food Pantry, which serves residents from several communities in the area.
The new museum site would house the illustration library and archive, a study gallery with open storage, room for symposia and salon-style convening, and a reading room with enhanced technology for digital engagement and distance learning.
The 'What’s in Our Water?' forum will explore current challenges to the environment, the effects and potential risks to human health, and ways in which information is disseminated.
“Our goal is to even out the tourist season in the Berkshires so it lasts all year long."
---- Hotelier Vijay Mahida, on acceptance of the Business Person of the Year award
The Stockbridge Sinfonia, a community orchestra in existence for over 40 years, is conducted by Simeon Loring and comprised of volunteer musicians of all ages, from high school students to retired local residents.
Pops Peterson has gained prominence with his critically acclaimed series, "Reinventing Rockwell," in which he is updating the iconic works of Norman Rockwell with contemporary social and political issues to celebrate the diversity of today's America.
Family-friendly Inside/Out performances will occur throughout Jacob's Pillow's Community Day, featuring local Berkshire County dance companies Olga Dunn Dance Company, Berkshire Pulse, Earthdance, dysFUNKcrew, Berkshire Dance Theatre, as well as a special collaboration between the Albany Berkshire Ballet and the Norman Rockwell Museum.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College (OLLI) will offer over a dozen courses this winter in Pittsfield, Lenox, and Great Barrington.
In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt articulated his vision for a postwar world founded on four basic human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Naumkeag’s Gardens Reimagined
Stockbridge -- Beginning August 15 and running through August 30, Naumkeag will host an art exhibit featuring works inspired by the famous gardens...
“I’m not racist. I’m friends with all races and all genders, to me the [Confederate] flag stands for the redneck way of life, though there is much more and it’s nothing to do with hate or racism.”
-- Ray Dumont
Once upon a time, the Rockwell images were not empty but reflective of what Stockbridge was. In 2015, at the same time that those images were unveiled at the UN, an important meeting was called to order and revealed what the village had become.
Roz Chast’s uncompromising body of work brings wry humor and wit to some of our most profound everyday anxieties, brilliantly translating the mundane into rich, comical observations.
"I am re-imagining and transforming Norman Rockwell scenes with 21st-century people, 21st-century families, fashions, technology and friendships. I feel if he were alive today he would want to do exactly this. He would want us to bring the work up to date and make it vibrant once again."
-- Pops Peterson
'We are not against Elm Court. We encourage smart growth, but this is the commercialization of a rural neighborhood.'
--Old Stockbridge Road resident Barney Edmonds
