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BRIGHT SPOTS: Week of June 18, 2025

Journalists are reporting on the constant chaos, but they are not featuring the Congresspeople who are speaking up. Here are a few; there are many more.

CONNECTIONS: Inspiring walks, a Berkshire tradition

A Berkshire ramble will refresh, energize, and delight. As you walk along, think of those who walked the same path before you.

CONNECTIONS: The war on pain

In the 1840s the public believed in the efficacy of a séance over that of ether. Many doctors and most laymen more readily accepted the existence of ghosts than of germs.

CONNECTIONS: A valentine for Valentine’s Day

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who called Berkshire home, wrote: “Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.”
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