Community Hancock Shaker Village Country Fair: Antique Cars, Timber Framing, and Chicken Races A weekend of craft vendors, farm animals, and a Sunday back-porch set from local band The Housie Shakers By Jamie Larson •
Arts Boy Harsher Headlines Basilica Soundscape at Basilica Hudson The Northampton darkwave duo, fresh off their major-label debut "Get Mean," plays with Choir Boy and Evanora Unlimited By Jamie Larson •
Style The FleaHive Market Brings Secondhand Style to North Adams Vintage, upcycled, and handmade vendors take over Hotel Downstreet for a curated market. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Landmark Doc on Radical Union "The Wobblies" Screens at AMP Historian Hamish Lutris and Connecticut labor activist Steve Thornton, author of "A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies," lead the discussion afterward By Jamie Larson •
Arts Flore Laurentienne Blends Chamber Sound With a Minimoog at the Clark Composer Mathieu David Gagnon's chamber-electronic project, named for a botanist's writings on the region's wild plants, brings strings and vintage synthesizers to the museum's auditorium. By Jamie Larson •
Community The Cemetery Crawl Returns to Red Hook, One Gravestone Clue at a Time A month-long scavenger hunt through six historic cemeteries kicks off at Hardscrabble Day, with a bluegrass award ceremony closing things out in October By Jamie Larson •
Community 24 Hours to Count Every Species: Berkshire Biodiversity Day Returns to Bartholomew's Cobble BEAT's 17th annual BioBlitz brings scientists and naturalists together with the public for a full day and night of species surveying By Jamie Larson •
Arts This Weekend, Bard Holds Festival for a Composer the Nazis Tried to Erase The Gernsheim Rediscovery Initiative opens with a festival running Friday through Sunday, September 18–20, on Bard's Annandale-on-Hudson campus—the first public move in a multi-year effort to bring a forgotten peer of Brahms back into the classical repertoire. By Jamie Larson •
Community Second Homelands PowWow Brings Over 160 Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans Back to the Berkshires "Tending the Fire," October 3–4 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, marks the largest gathering of Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican people on their ancestral homelands since the tribe's removal westward in the 1780s. By Jamie Larson •
Community Millbrook Researchers Find Segregation is Bad for the Environment Too A new collection of studies led by scientists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies argues that when segregation draws geographic lines over generations, it divides and hurts the natural world in ways that further disenfranchise the community. By Jamie Larson •
Community Olana's End-of-Summer Party A Big Deal for Frederic Church's 200th Birthday Top Hudson Valley chefs, local wineries, and a view of the river that inspired the Hudson River School headline the annual East Lawn benefit — now waitlisted for individual tickets By Jamie Larson •
Real Estate A 1974 Mid-Century Modern With a 60-Foot Lap Pool, in Stuyvesant Steel beam construction, two-story atriums, mid-mod mosaic tile kitchen, and a screened pool house surrounded by hedges and boxwood—close to Kinderhook. By Jamie Larson •
