“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.
In a letter to the editor, Anita Walker writes, "The arts and culture are the antidote to what ails us as a nation. In fact, they can both prevent and cure."
In his letter to the editor, Eli Newberger writes: “John Hasse gave a daring, arching, and comprehensive examination of the salutary and urgently-needed contributions of the creative arts to our personal and social worlds.”
"This is a creative community that thrives with the inspiration and energy of hundreds of concerts, performances and exhibits throughout the year, as well as the educational and thought-provoking programs created through the CPB. All would be jeopardized if the nation no longer celebrated or supported the arts as integral to our democracy.”
--- Beryl Jolly, executive director of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington
“The library learning commons and the music performance spaces will spark a different kind of education and become perhaps a model for other institutions.”
--- BCD Head of School Paul Lindenmaier
“For the past 49 years the BHRSD community has expected and supported an active and outstanding band program … I don’t think the music department can continue to provide that along with everything else they are doing with only four positions.”
-- Music instructor Jeff Stevens, who is retiring this year
Marv enjoyed a long and fruitful career as a psychologist and professor at Kingsborough Community College; he was a specialist in family therapy and a published author.
Digby comments on the "political" behavior behind the budgeting process at Berkshire Hills Regional School District when it proposed cutting programs from next year's school budget. "Political" means one thing one week, another thing the next.
