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Sheela Clary

Sheela Clary is a writer and teacher born and raised in South Berkshire county. She's interested in exploring the issues that affect the region, and in building community through place-based storytelling classes and events. She teaches Italian language and cooking, as well. Her writing can also be found at her Substack newsletter, Clarity. (https://sheela.substack.com Clarity | Sheela Clary | Substack a periodic, carefully composed newsletter exploring my obsessions, such as the state of our common life in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the stories of unheard-from people, the beauties of Italian, and the mysteries of good writing. Click to read Clarity, by Sheela Clary, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago: sheela.substack.com

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Life In the Berkshires

Where We Are (Part 2): Finding our way here

In this second installment of Where We Are, I focus on three local voices ranging in age from eighteen to forty-one. They were all born and raised in South County. These first-person narratives have been edited and condensed for concision and clarity.
Life In the Berkshires

Where We Are: South County voices from late October 2022

The idea for this series was inspired by a conversation with Jill Graham about an unrelated topic. Jill has found that the old ways of creating community aren’t working, so she’s creating new ones. She’s helping us open back up to each other. I decided to ask other local people how they are doing, what troubles them, and what gives them hope.
Arts & Entertainment

SHEELA CLARY: Five ingredients of a good story

Here’s to the power of stories to connect us. Please join me Thursday night at Berkshire Botanical Garden for an evening of storytelling, beginning at 6 p.m.
News

To The Manor Borne: Cassilis Farm in New Marlborough to be converted to affordable housing

There’s a touch of irony in Bloodgood Stock Farm’s evolution from purebred propagation site to a big step in the direction of ensuring New Marlborough can once again be a socioeconomic and generational melting pot.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: A palette cleanser

Have you ever had a colonoscopy? If you live in the United States and you have a colon, you either know the scope or soon will. These days, hospitals give out colonoscopies like McDonald's serves Big Macs.
Life In the Berkshires

The quiet difference she made: Tribute to philanthropist Suzanne Green

Suzanne did not technically leave heirs, but local nonprofit leaders agree that it would be no exaggeration to claim that the lives of thousands of local children, teens, and adults are the inheritors of her quiet, careful, unusual style of generosity. A memorial service will be held for her at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield on September 10, at 3 p.m.
Life In the Berkshires

Late July mushroom hunting with John Wheeler

John Wheeler is a retired carpenter from Housatonic by way of Egremont and president of the Berkshire Mycological Society since 2005. He's been obsessed with mushrooms for nearly as long as he has been married, and he’s been married 34 years.
Arts & Entertainment

Great Barrington Public Theatre is growing by leaps and bounds

Since its founding in 2019, the Great Barrington Public Theatre has continued to grow and impress putting on new work, often by local talent, in local space that would otherwise go unused. This trend continues with "Public Speaking 101," which plays through July 24.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Who knows what is a good day?

"Italians know what a good day is because they’ve been practicing how to create one for millenia, and they are generous in sharing the ingredients with newcomers, as far as I could see.
Life In the Berkshires

Creative ways of tackling food insecurity in South County

Local nonprofits and individuals are coming together with the hope of one day providing free, fresh food for everyone in the community.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: The movie we need now

Just in time for my 50th birthday, Hollywood rolled back the clock, cleared out my littered mind, and put on a party.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Living in captivity

"If 26 dead children and educators were not enough 10 years ago to move the hearts and force the hands of our leaders, then yesterday’s 21 dead children and educators will not be, either."
News

Simon’s Rock commencement celebrates the early college’s 53rd cohort of graduates

Local environmental entrepreneur Ben Dobson, a Simon's Rock class of 2000 graduate and a local environmental entrepreneur, was the featured speaker for the first in-person commencement at the school in three years.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: It’s time for a new flag

"There’s an 80-year-old woman living at the shelter because her landlord raised her rent and she couldn’t afford it. That’s gonna be all of us. When the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine comes down, perhaps we should replace it with a black circle and square on a bright red background, the international sign for an SOS.”
Life In the Berkshires

Railroad Street Youth Project has come a long way, and has far to go

GREAT BARRINGTON — The backstory of Great Barrington-based youth development organization Railroad Street Youth Project (RSYP) may be familiar to anyone who’s been paying...
Life In the Berkshires

Silvopasture in action: A chestnut orchard takes root in Great Barrington

Flying Deer Nature Center instructor Chris Wiltshire has partnered with Sean Stanton of North Plain Farm to plant 100 chestnut seedlings, which will one day provided shade for livestock and food for people.
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