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Tag: Vassar College

Obituaries

Alison Harper, 83, of New York City and Chatham, Mass., formerly of Williamstown

Later, she was asked to stay on at the Public Theater, where she started working in the box office in 1967. She retired from that same location in 1996, nearly 30 years later.

by Edge Staff
Posted on February 18, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: ‘The School of Love’ at Simon’s Rock; ‘North on the Wing’ birding lecture; college financial aid presentations; Fairview gala celebrates nurses

Naturalist and ornithologist Bruce Beehler will recount his 100-days-long 2015 field trip following the spring migration of songbirds from the coast of southeastern Texas up the Mississippi River and into the boreal forests of northern Ontario

by Emily Edelman
Posted on September 29, 2018
Obituaries

Mary ‘Polly’ Porter, 94, of Lenox

In 1970, she went to the Berkshires to participate in the Music Theater Group where she continued to spend summers, alternating with Key West winters, for the next 45 years.

by Edge Staff
Posted on July 24, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: David Davis and the Warrior River Boys at Dewey Hall; migration consortium; paper marbling demo; Mass Audubon volunteer day; Voyage at the Stationery Factory

On Friday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Bennington College will host a convening of its spring 2018 consortium on forced migration, displacement and education.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on April 24, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Monument students selected for music festival; climate change talk; Williams graduate named Rhodes Scholar; ‘Tis the Season’ art exhibit

In her work at Vassar College, Dr. Kristen Menking, uses pollen, charcoal and other materials contained within lake sediments to reconstruct the history of climatic change over the last million years.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on December 1, 2016
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