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Great Mountain Forest to host Nature Writing Retreat at Historic Yale Camp in Falls Village, Conn., Aug. 7 to 9

“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.

Book Review: Field Light

Reviewer Joan Embree calls Owen Lewis's "Field Light" "an exquisitely rendered portrait of the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts" in poetry and prose.

CONNECTIONS: The servant girl and the Riggs Center

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.

CONNECTIONS: Cottage industry

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.

Business Briefs: Austen Riggs’ ‘CEO Against Stigma’; Joan B. Hunter joins Berkshire Museum board; Lee Family Practice to accept new patients; juice-jacking 101; Greylock...

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.
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