Community Excursions: Holiday Fetes and Strolls Holiday spirit is highly infectious—no way you'll catch it at home, watching t.v., and all it takes is one trip to any mall to guarantee immunity well past New Year's Eve. Our small town holiday festivals, on the other hand, are veritable petri dishes By Editor
Community Berkshire Taconic's Neighbor-to-Neighbor Program "Poverty is all around us but it's more hidden in our region than in other places," says Jennifer Dowley, the president of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, noting that 15,000 people in Berkshire County alone receive fuel assistance. "Whether you're in Millbrook By Editor
Community Road Trip: Sinterklaas is Comin' to Town A fairy tale: A town was going through a time of trial, as towns often do when they grow. Newcomers were impacting the outcomes of elections, and some even took exception to the quasi-religious celebrations that took place seasonally in their children's new schools. For their part, the By Editor
Community It's Finally Show Time at the Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield Richard Stanley knows first hand how a movie theater can be a tipping point for a community. After all, fourteen years ago, he opened The Triplex, a brand new independent movie house in Great Barrington. By all accounts, The Triplex was the catalyst for Great Barrington's metamorphosis, attracting By Editor
Community Christmas Arrives Early at the Berkshire Museum The 106-year-old Berkshire Museum not only preserves paintings, photographs, antiquities, and other artifacts that depict our region's natural and cultural history; it also safeguards the spirit of traditional New England Christmas. The 25th annual Festival of Trees (through January 3) is an antidote to shopping mall ennui and By Editor
Community Live & Let's Give: Shopping for A Good Cause Community art sales are as common in our region as Subaru wagons and chamber-music concerts, so what makes the Live and Let's Give Sale this weekend at the Lichtensten Center for the Arts different? Of course, it's for the worthiest cause: Charley's Fund, the By Editor
Community Stealing Beauty: The Olana Viewshed Tour You don't have to be erudite or sophisticated to be moved by a beautiful vista. It's one form of beauty that everyone agrees upon. Yet the notion of protecting a view that's comprised largely of private property, is new. On Saturday, October 24, The By Editor
Community The Pastures: A Spa for Wellness Down on the Farm A "spa day" does not mean what it once did for Bridget Ford Hughes. A massage therapist who worked at Canyon Ranch for many years and travelled the globe as part of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger's entourage (which is how she ended up massaging Mick Jagger By Editor
Community An Alternative Harvest Festival in Millerton The miracle of Millerton's gentrification is that it happened without art galleries, which are frequently crucial to a small town's revival. (The Hanback Gallery, formerly of Lenox, opened on South Center Street only this August.) Nevertheless, Millerton is crawling with artists and collectors so instead of By Editor
Community Holy Smoke! The Berkshire Hosemen's Calendar Photographer Sarah Edwards has an eye for hunky guys. Last year, she photographed the Treemen Calendar (which included a picture of her boyfriend, Cord Kenyon, aka Mr. January), which raised $25,000 for the daughter of an arborist named Rafe Kozaka who died in a logging accident in 2008. This By Editor
Community Columbus Weekend Harvest Festival Hopping Crisp apples, bright orange pumpkins, pressed cider, home baked pies, sugary cider donuts, and live bluegrass: if you can't find a harvest festival near you this weekend, you must be hiding under your bed. Throughout the region cities, villages, and historic sites are sponsoring all manner of festivities, By Editor
Community Rooms With A View: Bascom Lodge Reopens on Mount Greylock There's nowhere better to take in the fall foliage than a mountaintop with panoramic views, and once again, after a couple of years of work that kept the road to the summit closed, you can drive to the top of Mt. Greylock, which is the highest peak in By Editor
