Tag: Lenox

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    The drama of democracy

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    WAM Theatre’s Suffrage Project explores voting rights, citizenship   Flo Brett, a member of WAM Theatre’s Elder Ensemble, is among those taking part in the theater company’s Suffrage Project, an online work begun in May that explores the ideas of voting and citizenship. Courtesy photo/Amy Brentano   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. It’s an read more

    The drama of democracy
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    From her point of view — Women filmmakers

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      Sally Kelton (played by Sally Forrest) pleads with Steve (Leo Penn) in Ida Lupino’s 1949 film “Not Wanted.” Lupino’s work was the focus in the first of a series of seminars on women filmmakers now under way at Ventfort Hall in Lenox, Mass. Courtesy photo/Kino Lorber   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. A read more

    From her point of view — Women filmmakers
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    A springtime bouquet of the arts

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    Author’s visit to The Mount is among 30 Berkshires events in ArtWeek The author Julia Pierpont, above, will visit The Mount in Lenox to discuss her new work, “The Little Book of Feminist Saints,” in one of 30 ArtWeek events planned around Berkshire County between April 27 and May 6. Courtesy photos   By KATE read more

    A springtime bouquet of the arts
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    To age in place, it takes a village

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    Volunteer networks planned in Berkshire, Columbia counties Shirley and Howard Shapiro are working to establish a volunteer network in central Berkshire County, affiliated with the national Village to Village nonprofit group, to help seniors live independently. John Townes photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer LENOX, Mass. Two separate efforts are under way in Berkshire and read more

    To age in place, it takes a village
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    Edith Wharton moves from high society to trench warfare

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    Book puts new light on Edith Wharton’s World War I dispatches By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass.   Edith Wharton, seen right at The Mount in 1905, had left the Berkshires to live full-time in Paris by the time World War I broke out. Her accounts from the war’s front lines are collected in a read more

    Edith Wharton moves from high society to trench warfare
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    Long wait for PCB cleanup

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    EPA offers draft proposal for Housatonic, drawing new criticism By DAVID SCRIBNERContributing writer LENOX, Mass. Woods Pond in Lenox, Mass., is among the stretches of the Housatonic River most heavily contaminated with PCBs. Dredging to remove the pollution wouldn’t be completed until 2029 under a cleanup plan released last month by the U.S. Environmental Protection read more

    Long wait for PCB cleanup
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    Confronting a painful past

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    Berkshires artist leads as new group takes aim at sex trafficking By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer LENOX, Mass. It’s a long way from Jeanet Ingalls’ early experiences of extreme poverty, violence and sexual abuse as a “street kid” in the Philippines four decades ago to her life as a mother, fitness trainer and artist in read more

    Confronting a painful past
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    State pushes to limit Housatonic cleanup

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    Mass. backs GE’s call to restrict scope of PCB removal By DAVID SCRIBNER Contributing writer LENOX, Mass.From Canoe Meadows, the 285-acre Audubon wildlife preserve in southeast Pittsfield, the Housatonic River winds its way south in a coil of oxbows through a floodplain flanked by farms and wetlands, creating one of the most diverse wildlife habitats read more

    State pushes to limit Housatonic cleanup