By Tela Zasloff There was a strange threesome at the farm—strange, at least, according to my limited knowledge of ducks. They were two males and a female, a ménage-à-trois, with the additional complication that the second male was an alien who dropped down from the sky one day and stayed for good. The female […]
Nothing here is random
By Patricia Wilk You’ll want to slow down. As you approach the cedar pillars that frame the broad entryway of Tom and Karen Parker’s house, the first thing you might notice is that the swirl of green out front is highly irregular. Each square yard is completely unlike the one on either side of […]
GailSez What to Do in September 2016
By Gail Burns September is just about the perfect month—not too hot, not too cold, still some summer left but the beautiful foliage is starting, the new school year brings our college campuses back to life. There’s so much to enjoy! Theatre: If you think the season is over, you’re wrong! Hurry to […]
Ideas, ideas—we’ve got lots of good ideas.
Outcome of the Greylock Economic Working Group Forum on August 11 By Tela Zasloff On the hot summer night of August 11, over 50 people gathered for three hours in the cavernous space provided by GreylockWORKS, a place fully appropriate for holding a public discussion on how to develop our Greylock region—the owners […]
What’s happening with radio in the Greylock region?
Are we overserved, or underserved? Would collaboration among the operators be useful? By Bill Densmore I think a great story would be to contact all the owners/licensees of the radio stations in our Greylock region and ask them—what are they doing to serve the Greylock region with important civic news and information, and locally […]
Why are they Running?
Four candidates are running in the September 8 Primary for Ben Downing’s seat in the Massachusetts State Senate. They explain why they are running Benjamin Downing, State Senator for Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Districts, is not running for re-election. There are three candidates running for his seat in the Democratic primary on […]
Gail Sez What to Do in August 2016
THEATRE: Starlight Stage Youth Theatre is presenting my adaptation of Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” August 3-6 at the First Congregational Church of Williamstown. Don’t panic and be sure to bring your towel! Obviously, there is LOTS of other great theatre out there, but […]
You’re invited to bring ideas on Aug. 11, 2016
Be part of the Greylock Economy Working Group The Berkshires have always been a center of creativity. Until late in the 20th century, our region contributed literary, spiritual and industrial ideas to a growing nation—and attracted thousands of prosperous city dwellers, and aspiring immigrants, to build and work in factories. But industrial economics has not favored us. […]
Talking about Beekeeping
By Shira Lynn Wohlberg and Tony Pisano Getting stung Shira: A few summers ago, my forearm got really swollen after I got stung. For a few days, before it receded, I’d just watch this thing–my arm, getting fatter and more alien. I’d feel like I was walking at an angle, as if everything […]
Rosewood Estate at the Cape
By Charlotte Degen The thick rotting smell of mud and seaweed at low tide, swarms of green-headed flies, and sea creatures with their own or borrowed shells or no shells—dominated my first impression of Cape Cod 45 years ago. Despite this first olfactory insult, 44 years later, I agreed to move to the […]
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