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In short, the woman who cannot decide whether she is GI Jane, Calamity Jane, or Amelia Earhart is a despicable freak whose removal was both justified and overdue.

Three women writers relish residency at The Mount

The three finalists were selected from a pool of over 130 applicants and have been in residence for two weeks this month.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Writers in the House’ at The Mount; Pittsfield Green Drinks; ‘Vertigo’ screening; Riverbrook artist at Red Lion Inn

Starring Kim Novak, James Stewart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore and Ellen Corby, “Vertigo” is considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest cinematic achievements.

Business Briefs: 100 Bridge Street funding application submitted; Lenox named top literary destination; Salisbury Bank employee awards; BCArc promotes Hall

Travel website Expedia has named Lenox one of its “20 Must-see literary destinations around the world.”

PREVIEW: Delight, deceit and desire at Shakespeare & Company’s 2018 season

The company is offering a 40 percent discount on tickets to full-time, year-round residents of Berkshire County.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Long Time Comin’’ at MMRHS; Sandy Hook vigil; ‘Symbols of Civilization?’; ‘A Christmas Carol’ at The Mount; ‘Noises Off’

The candlelight vigil will remember the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and all Americans who have been killed or injured by guns since the event took place.

Bits & Bytes: Winona LaDuke to give Schumacher lecture; ghost stories at the Mount; Berkshire birding book; Housatonic Heritage talk; R.J. Rosegarten at Berkshire...

“Choosing the Path That Is Green” will be delivered by activist, community economist, author and member of the Ojibwe Nation of the Anishinaabe peoples Winona LaDuke.

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire BioBlitz; Berkshire Fermentation Festival; Neal at Williams College; CATA poetry reading

Berkshire BioBlitz is an opportunity for biologists, naturalists and environmentalists to work in collaboration with the general public to survey the Thomas and Palmer Brook.

Setsuko Winchester’s ‘Yellow Bowl Project’ explores the fear of immigrants

Perhaps by exposing these places of ‘fear’ we can finally exorcise the shame and guilt, and move forward rather than blame the victim or shame the oppressors. In other words, I hope we will always remember and try to forgive. -- Setsuko Winchester, creator of Freedom From Fear/Yellow Bowl Project

Anne Harrison, 74, of Lenox

She volunteered with Berkshire Women for Women, the Berkshire Immigrant Center literacy mentoring program, and donated regularly to local cultural and social justice organizations.

At reunion of alumni and friends of legendary Music Inn, a book is born

"There was a revolution going on. The music predicted it, reported it and reminisced it." -- David Rothstein, former co-owner of the Music Inn

Bits & Bytes: ‘The Life and Times of Music Inn;’ dog dance at Jacob’s Pillow; ‘Altars, Amulets and Shrines;’ Gossamer Trio at Music &...

The event will also mark the launch of the Music Inn book project, which aims to produce a physical interpretation of the digital archives including stories, clippings, memorabilia and images.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Hypnosia’ at the Mahaiwe; 413Heart festival; ‘Women Writing Through Loss;’ Berkshire South fundraiser; Housatonic River cleanup

Berkshire South Regional Community Center will celebrate the legacy of its founder, the late Edwin A. Jaffe, at its annual gala on Friday, Aug. 18 at 5:30 p.m.

Bits & Bytes: BBG Grow Show; Trisha Brown Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow; Peter, Paul and Mary tribute; holiday cookie championship; 350Mass Berkshire meeting

Berkshire Botanical Garden has partnered with area historic homes Chesterwood, Naumkeag, Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio, Olana, and the Mount to provide inspiration to artists entering the Grow Show’s floral design and photography divisions.

Bits & Bytes: Elaine Gunn tribute; BPL staged reading; Robert Shaw film; ‘Travels With Satan’; poetry slam at The Mount

In his talk, John Demos will discuss the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day and his long engagement with the topic.

Bits & Bytes: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the Mount; ‘Mad Max’ with live score; Housatonic River paddle trips; Native American history talk

Housatonic Valley Association paddle trip participants will learn about Housatonic River ecology, see plants and animals along the way and be brought up to date on current issues.

Bits & Bytes: Murray Dewart at Chesterwood; Goldman-Price at Knosh & Knowledge; ‘Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery;’ scarecrow-making clinic

Silly accents and disguises abound as five actors portray over 40 characters in 'Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,' featuring Liz Wisan as Sherlock Holmes.
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