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A Midsummer's Night Music at Aston Magna

Aston Magna is the name of both a Great Barrington estate with stunning views of the Taconic range and a 37-year-old music-and-humanities foundation that is devoted to early music and its cultural context. On Saturday night, the latter celebrated at the former following a concert of

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AgriCulture & Academia

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown. This week Mark writes: Peter and I are both refugees from the academic world (he actually taught -- I determined midway through graduate school that teaching, and the academic world, were not for me) so between us we

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Arts

Dan's Diary: The Best of All Possible Worlds

Every summer, Berkshire Theatre Festival mounts one or two important and historic plays that I have never seen or read, and I am always grateful to BTF for filling in the gaps in my education.  Nowadays, as large-cast musicals become prohibitively expensive to produce, we should rejoice whenever they

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Openings: Synchronicity at Bard SummerScape

Bard opened its seventh annual SummerScape Festival on Saturday, July 11, with a gala dinner in the Spiegeltent (left) and a performance of Lucinda Child's 1979 Dance, a landmark collaboration with composer Philip Glass and artist Sol LeWitt, who made the black-and-white movie that is projected

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The Norman Rockwell Museum's Blessed 40th Birthday Party

It sometimes seems that every resident of Stockbridge over the age of 40 has an anecdote about posing for Norman Rockwell, which may be why the Norman Rockwell Museum's supporters feel such a deep bond with the place. Hundreds of them of all ages showed up on Thursday,

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Gallery Hopping in Lenox

Church Street in Lenox was hopping early Saturday evening, thanks to a well-attended gallery crawl that had crowds spilling out of the galleries onto porches and sidewalks.  Church Street Gallery was featuring the work of outsider artist James Martin, an 81-year-old Seattle recluse who, regrettably, was not

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Twilight in the Garden

Friday Evening, July 10, friends of the Spencertown Academy gathered at the elegant Spencertown home of interior designer and Hudson antiques dealer Michael Krieger and Cris Morales for a festive twilight garden party. James Rapant, Austerlitz Town Supervisor George Jahn, Marie Cavosora, and Verena Bopp Photographer and exectuvie director of

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Still Some Tickets Left for Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" Chatham Premiere

There was a time when lots of small towns across America had an old movie palace like the Crandell, a theater in Chatham that was built in 1926 as a venue for vaudeville and the silent picture show.   Since 1960, the year Psycho was the big hit, the Crandell has

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The New Ice Cream Cart on the Block

The other day, Great Barrington cheesemonger Matthew Rubiner—who a has sense of irony about foodie culture (though nobody is more serious about good food than he is)—sent out the following email to his customers, and we wanted to share it with you. Until recently we were ardent devotees

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Community

If the Parade Passed You By: July 4th in Pittsfield

Our cultural correspondent Bess Hochstein was an official judge at Pittsfield's famous Independence Day Parade and filed this photo essay and report: Last year USA Today called the Pittsfield 4th of July Parade one of the Top Ten in the nation, so this year I grabbed a front-

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Opening Night: Tanglewood Puts Its Best Foot Forward

The best-dressed ladies at the Tanglewood gala on July 3 had a sense of fun, and gaily walked on the soggy lawns in their black-and-white Wellies that they bought in the Tanglewood gift shop. Diane Cataudella, Libby Roberts, and Marjory Jassy (photo left) were happy to show

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In the Swirl at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

The Williamstown Theatre Festival, which has been around for 55 summers, has managed the neat trick of upholding tradition while staying contemporary and relevant. Under the leadership of Nicholas Martin (left, onstage center), WTF opened its season on July 2 with theatrical comfort food: A.R. Gurney's Children

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