“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.
A “Happening” took place last month at a Gilded Age, Stanford White-designed Berkshire cottage, attracting bluebloods, socialites and music fans. Naumkeag may never be the same.
As in any good Moliere play, the comic elements come first and this play is not averse to the physical and psychological silliness that makes his plays work well.
While I could have gone home happier with some truly barbarous barbs, the show still entertained and delighted, and the audience had almost as good a time as the company.
At the Norman Rockwell Museum family day author Will Lach will hold a reading and talk about the books, and have a conversation with model Mary Whalen Leonard, who posed for several of Rockwell’s most beloved paintings.
The Berkshire Bach Players is a seasoned instrumental ensemble of professional musicians including Lucy Bardo on cello and trumpet player Allan Dean along with Miriam Shapiro and Cindy Olgunick on violin, Eric Martin on viola, and Donald Sosin on organ.
The Trustees of Reservations consider the gardens at Naumkeag, created over 30 years, a masterpiece because Fletcher Steele was a leader in establishing modern American landscape design.
What Director Cathy Lee-Visscher has managed to do is to take something old and familiar and redefine it into something new and familiar at the same time
