“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.
Reviewer Joan Embree calls Owen Lewis's "Field Light" "an exquisitely rendered portrait of the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts" in poetry and prose.
An aging servant named Mary Hickey developed an unusual strategy for survival. Old, jobless, penniless, she roamed from great house to great house and slept in whichever bedroom she found unoccupied.
It was Austen Riggs who brought the Coonley family to the Berkshires. Riggs founded his therapeutic community in 1919. Mary Lord Coonley was on the first board of trustees.
Many smartphones are configured to automatically transfer data (or "sync") whenever they’re plugged directly into USB ports so, potentially, any charging station can use the same conduit to drain your data as it does to top off your charge.