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Mass MoCA Announces Fall Season Works, Performances| 04:34PM / Saturday, August 19, 2017 | |
Nick Cave's 'Until' closes on Sept. 4 after nearly a year in Building 5. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — For the sixth year running, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art heads into the fall with the 7th annual FreshGrass Festival on Sept. 15-17, a weekend devoted to bluegrass and progressive roots music and wraps up the season in mid-December when Sundance Theatre Lab returns for its annual residency program. In between, Gabriel Kahane is back with new music based on his recent two-week cross-country Amtrak journey; The Weepies take the stage for an unplugged performance; exhibiting artist Lonnie Holley dives into music; Sam Green & Kronos Quartet team up 0 Comments
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Eclipse Mill Pottery Exhibit Offers Art You Can Hold In Your HandBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:39AM / Thursday, August 17, 2017 | |
Molly Cantor's work features animals and flowers. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — "I'll Drink to That" is a veritable wonderland of handcrafted vessels: delicate celadons, chunky tankards, prim porcelains, bowls with heft and inventive shapes. The group exhibition at the Eclipse Mill curated by potters Gail and Phil Sellers and Arthur De Bow, gallery manager at MCLA Gallery 51, features more than two dozen artists who sculpt functional art out of clay. "I think it's really cool when you have an exhibit of something that's as simple as a cup and then you get to see so many interpretations of what a drinking vessel is, is 0 Comments
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OT Thriller Decides Wednesday Summer Lacrosse LeagueBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
09:33PM / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | |
 LANESBOROUGH, Mass. -- The signature moment of the Berkshire County Wednesday night summer lacrosse league may have come before Wednesday’s first league semi-final. The team from Adams-Cheshire only had eight players on hand to face Dalton for a berth in the league championship game. The officials asked the Dalton players whether they wanted to play eight-on-eight or field 10 players against a short-handed opponent. Without hesitation, the Dalton players replied, “eight-on-eight.” That is what the summer league is all about: love of the sport and friendly competition. “It's a great opportunity for them to learn and play more and 0 Comments
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'The Dark Tower': Fighting Horror with HorrorBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
05:19PM / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | |
 At best, director Nikolaj Arcel's "The Dark Tower," a sci-fi, fantasy western gleaned from Stephen King's best-selling, eight-volume series, might serve as a vicarious mitigation of the horror currently befalling America. The film is clearly about the war between good and evil, albeit related only coincidentally to the nightmarish battle between those forces now commanding our national stage. Whereas our real fight waits for afeared and hesitant patriots to awaken, the movie provides a quick fix of honesty and justice. But otherwise, while fans of the horror meister's franchise might be pleased to see the saga all gussied up in celluloid, the great unwashed will 0 Comments
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Crumbling of Slavery in Massachusetts Celebrated on 'Elizabeth Freeman Day'| 04:50PM / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | |
 SHEFFIELD, Mass. — On Aug. 21, 1781, in Sheffield, slavery began to crumble in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts when Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman successfully sued for her freedom from slavery more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation.
On Sunday, Aug. 20, The Trustees of Reservations will host a day of activities to celebrate the story of Elizabeth Freeman at the Ashley House in Sheffield. Activities will include guided tours of the Ashley House and a performance by storyteller and actress Tammy Denease, with her dramatic re-telling of "Mumbet's Story."
Preceding the afternoon performance, the public is invited to follow in the footsteps of
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BArT School 2017-2018 Bus Routes| 01:40PM / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School begins the school year on Monday, Aug. 21. School days have been restructured to begin at 8:20 a.m. and end at 3:40 p.m. 0 Comments
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Enjoy Great Music at Tanglewood, Music Mountain, Tannery PondBy Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires
01:15PM / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | |
Pianist Emanuel Ax comes to Tanglewood on Thursday, Aug. 17. Come late August, classical aficionados are grateful for the cornucopia of musical riches the Boston Symphony bestows to rapt audiences within the incomparably bucolic setting that is Tanglewood. Many of those superlative concerts will reside in our collective memory for a long time.
During this penultimate week of the Tanglewood Festival, the spotlight will focus on a range of classical fare in varied genres: from chamber and vocal music by Bach, Dvořák, Schubert and Mahler to symphonic works by Beethoven, Brahms and Richard Strauss.
Looking ahead, these last two months of magnificent music making are but a
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Stay Calm on the Investment 'Roller Coaster'| 11:33AM / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | |
 Unless you live near an amusement park that does a lot of advertising, you probably didn't know that Aug. 16 is National Roller Coaster Day. Actual roller coasters provide people with thrills. But as an investor, how can you stay calm on the "roller coaster" of the financial markets?
Here are some suggestions:
* Know what's in front of you. If you've ever ridden a roller coaster in the dark, you may find it scarier than if you boarded it in daylight – after all, it can be unsettling not to know where you're going. The same can be said about investing: If you have no idea what's in front of you, you might find the journey unnerving – and if that
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Letter: Ways to Protest SafelyLetters to the Editor,
05:00PM / Tuesday, August 15, 2017 | |
 To the Editor:
With hate groups marching in cities across the U.S., it's tempting to attend to show opposition. However, direct confrontation will only escalate tensions. Hate-mongers are always wrong. Let them be wrong a little farther away from you in order to de-escalate the cycle a bit.
I fear we're heading toward more intense violence at protests in the U.S. and even possibly civil war (sounds far-fetched, I know, but it wouldn't take much).
The Southern Poverty Law Center released a guide titled "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide."
To reduce the chance of violence:
"Do not attend a hate rally. As much as you might like to physically
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Biz Briefs: Bennington Subaru Collects Blankets for SVMC| 02:52PM / Monday, August 14, 2017 | |
 Blanket statement: Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center, a department of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, accepted a donation of dozens of blankets from Bennington Subaru and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Upstate New York/Vermont Chapter. Representatives of Bennington Subaru also brought lunch boxes filled with art-making supplies for children who visit the center.
"Blankets are so comforting to patients," said Wendy Petitt, the manager of the Cancer Center at SVMC. "We know patients will appreciate both the blankets and the thoughtfulness Subaru and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society have shown them."
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Berkshires Beat: Naumkeag Celebrates New Greenhouse With Party| 02:18PM / Monday, August 14, 2017 | |
The new Naumkeag greenhouse complex was celebrated on July 22. Quite a party: More than 250 guests from the Berkshires and beyond attended The Trustees' annual Naumkeag Garden Party on Saturday, July 22. This year's event was hosted by The Trustees and a Host Committee including several supporters of the organization from the Berkshires and beyond.
The evening featured the celebration of the construction of the new Naumkeag greenhouse complex in Fletcher Steele and Mabel Choate's historic and recently restored gardens as well as the launch of Naumkeag’s new flower fields. Garden inspired libations and bites by Berkshire Mountain Distillers and STARR Catering were
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BCAC Opens Doors, Builds CollaborationBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
04:42PM / Sunday, August 13, 2017 | |
The open house was family oriented with food, games, and the Boy Scouts put up a rock wall for children to climb. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — When it comes poverty, BCAC knows it can't solve it alone. Berkshire Community Action Council is the county's federally designed anti-poverty agency and provides an array of programming to help low-income individuals. But, it isn't able to provide every single need some one has to get out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. So, it has reached out to organizations that can fill those gaps. "One of the things we are particularly proud of is that we run the community connector partnership. That is a collaboration of 1 Comment
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