Save The Last Dance, a novel by Eric Joseph and Eva Ungar Grudin, will be launched at Water Street Books in Williamstown, Saturday, June 11, from 4-6PM. The authors will do a reading at 5PM. Around the time of their 50th high school reunion, two teenage sweethearts long separated, Adam Wolf and Sarah Ross, reconnect […]
GailSez – What to Do in May 2016
I want to focus on theatre this month because, even though only two of our four major theatre companies open this early in the season, there are lots of other great shows coming up that you should know about. BREAD & PUPPET: At 7 pm on May 6, Vermont’s own Bread & Puppet Theater returns […]
GailSez- What to Do in April 2016
By Gail Burns For me April means just one thing—Library Book Sale!! April 22 from 10 am-6 pm and April 23 from 10 am-4 pm at the Williamstown Elementary School. Silent Auction bidding ends Sunday at 2 pm. A new community treat on the horizon is the ABC Earth Day Sale on April 23 from […]
Solstice by: Sarah Sutro
light fails on the darkest day a half moon hovers in the twilight sky in the west, blue, a velvet brightness yet thistles are up already, quince bloom too: balmy, aberrant December, warming apples or plums? dark red globes, on a grey tree, past harvest, purpose, red wicker stems etch blackberry on green grass waiting […]
GailSez What to Do in March 2016
March is a month of Sundays! The first weekend of the month—March 5 & 6—brings the ThunderFest & Thunderbolt Ski Run to the eastern slopes of Mt. Greylock in Adams. Then Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 am on Sunday, March 13, we welcome spring on Sunday, March 20, and Christians celebrate Easter on Sunday, March […]
Preoccupied with catastrophe. Jim Shepard, on his novel The Book of Aron
By Tela Zasloff Jim Shepard came to writing his seventh novel, The Book of Aron (Knopf, 2015), through a lifetime preoccupation with manmade catastrophe. He explains, “I’ve always focused on issues of complicity with power, in various forms and in political terms, the notion of how you get on a slippery slope when you find […]
GailSez for February 2016
A Theatrical Response to Race Relations in Berkshire County By Gail Burns In 2013, The New Black Fest in New York City commissioned six very diverse playwrights to write 10-minute plays on the topic of Trayvon Martin, race, and/or privilege. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot […]
President Falk creates new committee at Williams to judge whether monuments or memorials on campus encourage an inclusive community
By Harry Montgomery Read your Williams Record of December 9 on-line to follow President Falk’s explanation of the College’s new Monuments Committee. Herbert Allen, class of 1962 and major donor to the College, wrote a Letter to the Editor, Dec.9, arguing that the President’s censoring a painting at the Log and then forming “a tribunal […]
Head Start Visits the Clark
By Rae Eastman The Clark starts attracting its visitors at an early age. On a sunny morning in December over 20 Headstarters from North Adams trooped eagerly into the museum with their teachers for their first visit to an art gallery. Their introduction to the idea of art had been the reading of a book, […]
Thomas Krens proposes a “cultural corridor” between North Adams and Williamstown
Video and audio highlights of the presentation By Bill Densmore Former Massachusetts governors Michael S. Dukakis and William Weld joined former Guggenheim museum director and MASS MoCA originator Thomas Krens, on December 5, 2015, in describing plans for an “Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum” and a new “Global Contemporary Collection and Museum” near […]
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