Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
Join local historian Ron Bernard, author of Sandisfield Then and Now 1762-2012 and The Little Brown Church of New Boston, Mass., and the Lives of Its Pastors, for a book talk and slide presentation on his third book, From Church to Synagogue to Arts Center: Celebrating 185 Years of Community and Culture. The book tells the [...]
Photo above, Hannah Fries, by Susan Quinn. Award-winning local poets Hannah Fries and Hilde Weisert read poems and lyrical essays inspired by "the landscape we live" -- whether it be spring ephemerals, wandering cows, turkey families, birch trees, creeks running and creeks dry, mud, or mountainsides. Hannah Fries is a poet, writer, and editor. She [...]
Animal communication researcher Kari Weil, University Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University, shares insights on the language between humans and horses. To learn to ride a horse is to learn a language we don’t realize we are already speaking. In this talk Kari Weil, a professor at Wesleyan University and part-time resident of Monterey, will [...]
Panel discussion led by acclaimed author Courtney Maum with award-winning local authors of books on the relationship of horses and humans. Courtney, author of the memoir, The Year of the Horses, will be talking with Donnaldson Brown, author of Because I Loved You, and Barbara Newman, author of The Dreamcatcher Codes, about their stories and [...]
Admission free - $10 suggested donation to benefit the Arts Center. Writer and performer Sally-Jane Heit defied the odds and, at the spry age of 91, wrote and published her memoir, Not Yet! Sally-Jane will share excerpts from her inspiring memoir and reveal how she tackled the "sand mountain" of creating a book. Then she [...]
Talk by Tom Ryan, Department of Conservation and Recreation’s South Berkshire District management forester on understanding forest stressors to help develop the right forest management strategy. After an overview of forest stressors including insects/diseases, climate change and human activities, Ryan will talk about developing a stress management strategy anchored by clearly defining one's goals and [...]
"A ceremonial stone landscape is a series of intricately crafted structures — rock walls, piles, and cairns (Manitou Hassanash in the Algonquian language) — that Indigenous peoples and those committed to protecting the site consider a sacred space. They are an excellent example of what the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., a federation of more than [...]
