Community Bard Partners with Hudson River Housing to Take Over Columbia County Housing Safety Net from Galvan The Rural Preservation Company designation, the state contract that determines who administers home-repair grants and foreclosure prevention for the whole county, to be transferred from Galvan Foundation to HRH as Bard works logistics of real estate gift. By Jamie Larson •
Community "I Can't Call It Stupid Anymore": Great Barrington's Sunshine Orange Subaru Parade Brings out the Sun and Tears of Joy More than 80 Sunshine Orange Crosstreks rolled down Main Street Sunday during a break in the clouds to light up Great Barrington. Organizer Michelle Kaplan says a third parade is now likely unavoidable. By Jamie Larson •
Community Salisbury's Chris Crowley Talks Aging at 92 and “Younger Forever” “The Younger Next Year” author’s new book makes room for physical decline, grief, friendship, and the pleasure of staying engaged. By Brian K. Mahoney •
Community Nadia Milleron, Independent Challenger to Richard Neal, Says She’d Vote to Impeach the President Her Husband Serves The independent, who changed aviation law after her daughter died in a Boeing crash, says Neal plays politics with people’s lives. Her husband works for Trump, her sons were arrested by Israel on a Gaza aid flotilla, and her uncle is Ralph Nader. It's complicated. By Jamie Larson •
Location: Pittsfield, MA "Soulful Creatures": Mummified Animals Take Over the Berkshire Museum Thirty preserved mummies and dozens of related artifacts on loan from the Brooklyn Museum explore why ancient Egyptians mummified birds, cats, dogs, and snakes by the millions. By Jamie Larson •
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 •
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 •
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 •
Community Rhinebeck Porchfest Turns Front Yards Into a Village-Wide Stage A free, volunteer-run music festival brings musicians of every genre and age to residents' porches for one Saturday in September By Jamie Larson •
