“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.
“We’ve always been about the needs of individuals, whether they want college or not. We ask what they need to thrive and see their future, not as something abstract, but concrete, now, here.”
-- Ananda Timpane, executive director of Railroad Street Youth Project
The Winter 2017 issue of Stone Walls II features work about the late poet, journalist and feminist Michelle Gillett written by Patty Crane and others, as well as two poems by Gillett.
The success of its co-production with the Berkshire Theatre Group of “The Bakelite Masterpiece” by Kate Cayley enabled WAM Theatre to present its largest donation yet to its 2016 beneficiaries.
20 Railroad Public House owners Benjamin Downing and Laura Shack are working on a menu with traditional pub fare like burgers and fries, and dinners with ingredients from around the region. They’ll use as much locally farmed veggies and meat as possible.
"It’s an answer to a problem that has arisen in many rural communities throughout Massachusetts and across the country: where do youth go when they have nowhere else to go?"
--- Ananda Timpane, executive director of Railroad Street Youth Project
