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I WITNESS: What if they threw a militarized birthday party and nobody came?

Nothing takes the savor out of a malignant narcissist’s birthday party more quickly than no one showing up.

Dedicated to Pittsfield — City’s prodigal daughter strives to brighten Pittsfield’s narrative

“The negative narrative – it felt like a gut punch.” – Virginia O’Leary

Bits & Bytes: FreshGrass; Walk a Mile in Her Shoes; ‘Searching for the Moon’; swing dancing at Dewey Hall; memoir-writing workshop

Registration is free and walkers are encouraged to raise funds through pledges as individuals or as teams to support survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Bits & Bytes: Woofstock 2019; Community at Bat; black history heritage hike; First Fridays Artswalk; adult education classes

The Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire will hold its third annual Community at Bat charity softball game Sunday, September 8, at Memorial Field Park on Bridge Street.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Fourth of July in the Berkshires

I firmly believe librarians know everything, and even if that is only true in my mind, they certainly know where to find local Fourth of July celebrations.

CONNECTIONS: Riding the historic Berkshire rail line

The Lenox railway station serves as a museum and tells the Berkshire railroad story. Step inside and step back in time when trains moved America.

Bits & Bytes: Festive Frolic; ‘Marzipan and the Trout’; Berkshire Waldorf High School art show; invasive fish talk; 100 Cats for Christmas

A landmark of classical music, Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet weaves a net of enchantment with its catchy melodies and fresh exuberance.

Bits & Bytes: ‘A History of Searles Castle’; downtown Pittsfield trick or treat; ‘The Perfect Pitch’; ‘Interreligious Illiteracy’; ‘Stone Pears’ book launch

The fifth annual Western Mass Film and Media Exchange will feature Hollywood screenplay consultant, author and pitch expert Pilar Alessandra.

CONNECTIONS: The Wild West (and lions) on the streets of Pittsfield (continued)

The Bostock Wild Animal Show was booked into the Academy of Music for a week. At the end of the run, two caged lionesses were being lowered from an upper window to street level. The cage door broke open and the lions leaped out.

CONNECTIONS: Wild West Show began on the streets of Pittsfield

Quackenbush furnished the capital for Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok to appear at the Academy — actually outside the Academy on the streets of Berkshire County.

Bits & Bytes: Walk a Mile in Her Shoes; ‘Being Black in the Berkshires;’ Joachim Frank at Lenox Library; ‘Having Difficult Conversations’ workshop; Amanda...

A discussion of African-Americans’ Berkshires history and culture as well as the stories and voices not being told or heard, 'Being Black in the Berkshires' will remember the past, assess the present and plan for the future.

CONNECTIONS: Dining on Berkshire history

In Berkshire County, from north to south, there are restaurants that have been serving hungry customers for more than 200 years.

News Brief: Water update from Housatonic Water Works

Housatonic Water Works maintains nearly 90,000 linear feet of water mains, mostly cast iron installed in the 1880s. Although these lines remain in good condition, they are more reactive to chlorine which can cause increased iron sediment.

EYES TO THE SKY: The right to night in the Berkshires

The easiest way to prevent light trespass beyond our homes, aside from turning off unnecessary lighting, is to minimize the unintended projection and scattering of light from poorly aimed and poorly designed fixtures.

‘Sister event’ to Women’s March planned in Pittsfield

On the one-year anniversary of the iconic movement, Indivisible Pittsfield has organized another sister event to this year's march – what it calls a "March into Action Resource Fair and Community Forum" at the Colonial Theatre on South Street.

CONNECTIONS: Stormy weather, Part II: March blizzard of 1888

It snowed on Sunday, they said, but that was nothing: It was Monday, early afternoon, when the winds picked up and falling snow mixed with blowing snow rendering people snowblind, forcing everyone off the streets, and practically blowing horses back to their barns.

CONNECTIONS: Berkshire liaisons, part II: Wilson v. Waite

Today, it would be the woman who had legal standing to file suit as today we would consider if anyone was harmed, she was. Not so in 1874.
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