Sunday, February 16, 2025

News and Ideas Worth Sharing

HomeTagsPoland

Tag: Poland

THE OTHER SIDE: Witches burning (Part One)

As we have learned over the centuries, when it comes to burning witches, it doesn’t really matter if you have burned a real witch or just someone who, in your fevered, partisan, and paranoid imagination, could easily become a witch in the future. It is the burning that is the message.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference’ highlights immediacy of climate crisis

Urging patience and practicality, adults theorize about the possible devastating effects of the climate crisis. But their possible tomorrows are the nightmarish likelihood of the soon-to-be present for Greta and her generation.

Stanley Szwyd, 95, of Housatonic

His four siblings had all been told that he had been killed during the war. His sister was in disbelief when she heard from him. His family had already held a funeral for him, believing that he had died in captivity.

From attack helicopters to fancy chocolatiers: Piloting the ship at Catherine’s

The Kinneys had started a small gift-basket business some years back. They assembled baskets comprised of products made in the Berkshires or very nearby: to wit, Bola Granola; Harney Teas; and of course, Catherine's Chocolates. So they were no strangers to Sinico's business before they looked into buying it.

REVIEW: Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music included new and demanding pieces, mourned the loss of one of its own

Widely recognized as one of Britain's most important contemporary composers, Oliver Knussen began his association with Tanglewood and the Tanglewood Music Center when he was 18 years old.

Herbs for every season: The Berkshires’ first botanical CSA

You won’t find weekly pickups at Medicine Buddha Botanicals, nor will you find baskets of farm-fresh veggies. Rather, this CSA has just four pickups a year and they’re filled with tinctures, salves, teas and other goodies.

Harry Franklin, 95, of Lenox, refugee from anti-Semitism

As part of his English studies in Vienna Harry’s English teacher gave him an American pen pal, Lillian Wolfram, a non-Jew, whose family in Glenside, Pennsylvania, offered to sponsor him if he could escape to America.

‘The Last Hotel: A Novel in Suites’: Lobby

Luba never liked the Last Hotel. For one thing, the neighborhood scared her to pieces. During the short walk from the Broadway 72nd St. subway, bums accosted her, filthy palms open. Drug addicts hanging outside buildings, passing back and forth a cigarette, women dressed like men, garbage everywhere.

KALCHEIM: Nightmare scenario: Will 2015 be like 1939?

If we go one step further, and offer the Ukrainians a formal alliance, the result could be nuclear war. This past week, Putin revealed, in an interview with Russian television

Bits & Bytes: Lenox Lit Crawl; Berkshire Music School concert; Erik Hoffner photography exhibit

“I thought it was important to portray the subjects of this story primarily with old-fashioned black and white film, since this is a venerable relationship between the farms and these traditional breeds which is now being rekindled. Many of the portraits I was able to create have an antique feel and seem to speak through the centuries.” -- Photographer Erik Hoffner, whose photo exhibit is now on view at Galerie Giroux in Great Barrington
spot_img

The Edge Is Free To Read.

But Not To Produce.