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july • vOL. 3 nO. 7
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JTF: “Miracle” pilot dies at age of 90 Page 6 • METRO: A summer in the “Dog house” page 8 • Music: Ross Jenssen Page 21
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Just The Facts
PAGE 6 Turbulance
“Miracle” pilot dies
at age of 90
Acclaimed fiction writer James Salter, more
famous locally for piloting a plane that
crashed into a downtown home has died.
By Terry Cowgill
Anti-capitalist group
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The reconstruction project on Main
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ever seen anywhere.
I have lived in NYC, LA, Denver,
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I am on Main Street in Great Barrington almost daily and have been
constantly amazed, since the launch of
the project, at the high level of organization and safety considerations in
place and the competency with which
the work was moved along.
Kudos and congratulations to all the
architects, engineers, town employees,
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and everyone else who worked on the
reconstruction of Main Street and who
are doing a really fine job in repairing
and beautifying our downtown!
Beryl Bender Birch
Great Barrington
Yes, ultimately and unfortunately, Americans, and
perhaps many other nationalities, will pay the ultimate
price for freedom
Dennis Croughwell
Let’s look at millenial
housing needs
R.A.Lakefield has produced an
interesting and valuable introduction to
the subject of housing for Millennials in
the Berkshires. Interesting, but not yet
complete.
To fill it out, let’s propose that some
bright and ambitious real estate person
calculate the true cost of Millennial
housing in every Berkshire town; thus:
1.Visualize the housing needs of a
young Millennial family. Let’s say, a
house with an ample living room, large
dining/kitchen area, master bedroom
suite, two additional bedrooms (one
larger, one smaller, with shared bath),
2-car garage with mud room entrance,
finished basement (full or partial); all
set on a 1/4 acre lot in a nice suburban situation in each Berkshire town.
(Increase lot size to local minimum, if
necessary).
2.Determine the sales price/value of
that home in each town.
3.Calculate the property tax bill
based on this hypothetical value (as-
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amortization expense.
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to give away the whole report; it will be
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with ISIS, or ISIL, you may not have
heard this quote before, but a good
offense is the best defense. Apparently
the leaders of the Islamic State have
learned this lesson well. Each day they
take more territory, along with all the
spoils that come with it, becoming a
more and more formidable force.
It’s pretty obvious that history
repeats itself, and the current advance
of ISIL throughout the Middle East is
very reminiscent of the late 1930s when
another fanatical force was expanding throughout Europe unchecked.
Ultimately many sacrifices were made
to stop that aggression. I’m sorry, but
evils such as ISIL don’t/won’t stop on
their own.
Yes, ultimately and unfortunately,
Americans, and perhaps many other
nationalities, will pay the ultimate price
for freedom. As the leader of the free
world, how many is really up to you.
The longer you wait, the bigger the
problem becomes.
It’s only a matter of time before
some fanatic who is influenced by the
continued and unabated advances of
ISIL decides to strike here at home.
People love to rally behind a winner,
and right now ISIL’s winning! Maybe if
the strike happens in Washington D.C.,
you’ll take notice. Then again, maybe
not!
Dennis Croughwell
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“Miracle”
pilot dies at
age of 90
By Terry Cowgill
A
significant, if obscure, figure
in Great Barrington’s history
died last week.
Acclaimed fiction writer
James Salter, more famous locally
for piloting a plane that crashed into
a downtown home 70 years ago last
month, died Friday near his home on
Long Island. He was 90.
On the evening of May 7, 1945,
then-West Point Air Corp Cadet A. J.
Horowitz (Salter would later change
New skate
park for
Lee youth
By Julie Ruth
T
he Department of Public Works
gave the town’s Skateboard Park
an extreme makeover last week,
just in time for children to enjoy
the Kiwanis Club’s Bike Safety Day on June
20, after lewd graffiti had kept families away
from the park at the Lee Athletic Field.
“We couldn’t be more pleased,” said
Malcolm Chisholm on behalf of the Kiwanis
Club of Lee, which sponsors the event every
year at the Skateboard Park it gifted to the
town back in 2010. Bike Safety Day, held
the weekend after school lets out for the
summer, enables kids to learn safety tips,
get their bikes inspected, receive free bike
helmets, and enjoy hot dogs and beverages
courtesy of the service club.
“Now the park will have more use, and
parents will come down again,” Chisolm
said. “This a great place to learn how to ride
a bicycle, meet neighbors, and enjoy the
playground.”
Parents milling about the Skateboard
Park on Saturday were in high spirits about
its sparkling transformation. “We’re so
happy,” said Lee parent Linda Lin, on hand
with her toddler sons at the event. “It looks
so much better now.”
“It’s made a huge difference,” agreed
Sharon Kline, also a Lee parent. “We would
go to Stockbridge, but now that they’ve
cleaned up the park, we can take our kids
down here to ride bikes.”
One young mother whose home is a
block away said the graffiti‘s offensive
words and drawings of genitalia kept neighborhood families from using the skate park
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his name) was lost in his AT-6 on a solo
navigation training flight and almost
out of fuel when he lost altitude shortly
before midnight and ran smack into the
Graham home on Cottage Street.
News photographs showed the
trainer aircraft, felled power lines
draped over it, wedged precariously
at a 45-degree angle in a corner of the
Graham house between a first-floor
window and the front porch.
Amazingly, no one
►► New York was seriously hurt.
man dies one The family had
month after been celebrating the
View feature homecoming of Pfc.
William Graham,
who had arrived in Great Barrington
that afternoon after being released from
a German prisoner-of-war camp shortly
after that country’s surrender.
Most of the Graham family had just
retired to other parts of the house, but
when they heard the noise of the cirand the adjacent playground at Lee Athletic
Field. “It was awful,” she said. “It became
a hangout for teenagers to smoke pot, not a
place I wanted to bring the kids until they
cleaned it up. Now we’ll be here all the
time.”
Kline pointed up at the security cameras
on fences, which had been malfunctioning,
and are now fixed. “They’re policing the
park, monitoring it, and making sure that it
stays nice,” she said.
Along with Kiwanis Club members,
Dave Clark of Berkshire Bike and Board
gave his time on Saturday, providing safety
inspections and tune-ups of kids’ bicycles
and answering lots of cycling questions.
Several town policemen and emergency
responders also donated their time during
Saturday’s event to give children the thrill of
touring a fire truck, ambulance, police squad
car and an enormous iron “tactical support
vehicle”, designed to bring county police
teams into hostile areas.
“I love those vehicles we got to go inside,” said Tyringham resident Dawn Havill,
who had fun touring the safety vehicles with
her grandchild. “They were very impressive,
especially that giant cast-iron vehicle that
could go anywhere and survive anything.”
Kiwanis members were obviously
enjoying themselves too during the day, as
they helped kids with their bikes, handed out
helmets, grilling hot dogs, and read out the
names of two winners of brand-new bikes
from their drawing.
“I just really enjoy giving back to the
community,” said Lee resident Warren LaBier as he served up hot dogs to parents and
children. “It doesn’t cost anything and it’s
just a little bit of your time. If more people
did that, what a world it’d be.”
Bike Safety Day is one of many events
sponsored each year by the Kiwanis Club of
Lee, whose mission, Chisolm said, is “helping to improve the community, one child at a
time.”
cling plane, they rushed outside in time
to see Salter’s plane crash into their
home.
The plane did not catch fire and
Salter suffered only a cut lip and a
loose tooth.
Dubbed “The Miracle on Cottage
Street,” the entire story was recounted
in The View last month on its 70th
anniversary by local historian Gary
Leveille.
Salter’s obituary in The New York
Times, long considered the gold standard in the chronicling of noteworthy
deaths, made no mention of the crash. An obituary in Agence FrancePresse mentioned only that Salter had
“survived a crash-landing while training as a US Air Force pilot before being
posted to the Pacific.”
After flying more than 100 combat
missions in the Korean War, Salter left
the Air Force in 1957 to begin his writing career.
One of the reasons he changed his
name was to provide cover when he
published his first novel, “The Hunters,” an account of his years in the Air
Force. In addition, “He didn’t want to
be another Jewish writer from New
York; there were enough of those,”
reported The New Yorker magazine.
Salter was regarded by his colleagues as a “writer’s writer.” He never
achieved a great deal of commercial
success, but was widely admired for his
dazzling prose and deft storytelling.
In addition to several novels and
short stories, Salter dabbled in screenwriting and is perhaps best remembered
for writing the screenplay for “Downhill Racer,” a 1969 thriller starring
Robert Redford and Gene Hackman.
In addition to his second wife, Kay
Eldredge, Salter is survived by two
daughters and a son from his first marriage to Ann Altemus; a son with Ms.
Eldredge; and four grandchildren.
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Beat
Once again drug
arrests, DUIs fill
court dockets
Brian C. Hohman, 51, of Egremont
Road, South Egremont, a Level 3 registered sex offender, admitted to sufficient
facts of offering sexual conduct for a fee on
two separate occasions to a local man. On May 5, the man reported to Great
Barrington that Hohman had offered to
perform oral sex on him in exchange for
$50. The victim said he had originally met
Hohman at Mavis Tire in Great Barrington
in October 2014 and had a conversation
while smoking and waiting for his car
to be fixed. According to his statement,
the victim said he gave Hohman his cell
phone number after learning that they
had several friends in common. Hohman
offered to perform the act in the bathroom
in exchange for money, and the victim said
he wasn’t interested. The victim provided
police with text messages showing further
unwanted contact.
Hohman then came into the victim’s
place of employment on May 5 and offered
him sexual acts again in exchange for
money. The victim learned that Hohman
was a sexual offender and became upset
and concerned. In March 1993 Hohman
had been convicted in Berkshire Superior
Court of sexually assaulting eight males,
ages 12 – 17. He pleaded guilty to four
counts of rape; and multiple counts of indecent assault and battery of a minor, among
other charges.
Hohman was fined $300 for offering sexual
conduct for a fee and ordered to have no
contact with the victim, stay away from
his place of employment, and attend a sex
offenders program and pay a $65 monthly
probation fee. The case was continued
without a finding until Dec. 14 2015.
Roger Hull, 41, of Front Street, Great
Barrington, admitted to sufficient facts of
driving under the influence of alcohol in
Sheffield. On May 23 police found a 2002
blue BMW parked on Rte. 7S at the 1.2 mile
marker with music playing and Hull, the
driver, sleeping. A strong odor of alcohol
emanated from the car, and they observed
an open container of a 16 oz Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, ¾ full, in plain view inside the car.
They awoke Hull, whose eyes were glassy
and bloodshot. He admitted to drinking, and
performed poorly on field sobriety tests. His
blood alcohol level registered .11. An inventory of the car revealed five open and empty
containers of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and a
cooler with four open and seven unopened
cans of Coors Light; and an opened 24 oz
can of Twisted Tea. A brown paper bag behind the driver’s seat contained two opened
and four unopened 12 oz. Coors Light beers.
Hull was ordered to surrender his license for
45 days, attend a driver alcohol education
course and pay its fee as well as a $350 fine
and $65 monthly probation fee. The case
was continued without a finding until June
9, 2016.
Domenic S. Capitanio, 32, of Ryan
Lane, Otis admitted to sufficient facts of
negligent operation of a motor vehicle
and possession of heroin, a Class A drug,
in Otis. On April 22 police responded to
a report of a two-car accident on Rte. 8.
One driver, Capitanio, told them he was
returning home in his red Dodge Stratus
after dropping his girlfriend at work in
Lenox and does not remember the accident
and does not know how he ended up on the
opposite side of Rte. 8.
The other driver said he was operating
his Freightliner tractor on Rte. 8 when he
saw a red Dodge Stratus coming at him.
He swerved into the southbound lane to
avoid a headon collision, but the Stratus
collided with it. His estimated speed at
the time of the accident was 45-50 miles,
according to the police report. The driver
also said he could not believe after the
collision that Capitanio walked away from
his vehicle holding his cell phone. Capitanio, who suffered some injuries, was
treated and released that evening from
Berkshire Medical Center. Police conducted an inventory of Capitanio’s vehicle
and found paraphernalia used to inject
heroin inside a purple clutch purse in the
glove box and three wax bags containing
tan powder stamped with “Nuts” on the
label. Police tracked down the car’s owner
after learning that Capitanio did not own
the vehicle. The owner denied any knowledge of the heroin, said Capitanio was his
stepdaughter’s boyfriend and was a recovering drug addict. Capitanio was fined $50
for Class A drug distribution and ordered
to complete a drug rehabilitation program
and pay a $50 monthly probation fee. The
case was continued without a finding until
Oct. 8, 2015.
Lorna M Sundara, 44, of Linden
Street, Pittsfield, had charges of assault
and battery of a family member, assault
and battery with a dangerous weapon and
disorderly conduct dismissed upon request
of the defendant in Lee. On Jan. 23 police
responded to a report of plastic car parts in
the roadway at Laurel Street. They found
Sundara in the road holding onto her leg
and complaining of pain. According to
a witness, Sundara had been in a truck
with her boyfriend after having had a few
drinks and they had an argument, where
she reached over the witness and started
punching and biting her boyfriend, then
picked up a shovel and started hitting him.
Police have answered numerous previous
calls of domestic disturbances involving
the couple. He told police he had to slam
on brakes to stop the vehicle from having
an accident. Sundara said she thought the
truck had stopped and she decided to jump
out, injuring her leg. Police found bite
marks on the male’s chest and back and
various cuts and scrapes. The boyfriend
requested that all charges be dismissed.
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MelissaView
Jacobs
The Berkshire
| July 2015
Marji Keefner-West
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in the “Dog
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ost people think of being in the
“dog house” as a bad thing, but
for some of the talented actors
at Shakespeare & Company
there is no other place they would rather be.
Right along Kemble Street, right on the
grounds of the nearly 40-year-old awardwinning company sits a small white house.
Inside, the building houses more than just the
actors, but also their four-legged friends.
The building, that has been come to be
known as the “Dog House”, serves as the
summer home for actors and directors that
own, or just like being around, pets.
This year that means the stars of this
summer’s biggest plays are shacking up with
a few dogs like Ziggy, G and Charlie.
“It’s a really fun idea,” said Michael
Toomey, owner of Charlie.
This year he is working on “Comedy
of Errors” and An Iliad. “It really is great to
have a place that I can
bring my dog with
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me.,” he says.
dog enjoy
these plays
Toomey said that
Charlie loves having
a summer out of the city and living on the
campus.
That is something Toomey agrees with as
well. He has been coming to Shakespeare &
Company since 1998. He met his wife there,
and feels that he sees it more as a family than
a company.
“The reason I keep coming back is that
there is a truthfulness to the work and a real
authenticity,” Toomey said.
“And when you combine that vision with
all of these great people this is the only place
I would want to be.”
Ryan Winkles star of “King Henry V”,
which just opened June 26, also agreed.
He brings his dog “G” to the campus each
year and he also married a co-star he met at
Shakespeare & Company.
“It sure is nice to have a real house, not
the dorms,” Winkles said. “We lived on campus for five years right there in that house.”
Winkles said that on top of the great
work, the family atmosphere and being able
to get his dog outside brings him back to the
dog house year after year.
“This is without a doubt my dog’s favorite place on earth,” Winkles said.
Fran Rubenstein, the “Henry V” stage
manager, is in her third summer at the company and couldn’t imagine a summer without
her dog, Ziggy.
“This is my third summer and to leave
him home wasn’t an option, Rubenstein
said.”It has changed him and he can come to
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(L to R) Michael F. Toomey (Comedy of Errors/An Iliad) and Charlie, Stephan D. Ball (G.M/Managing Director/Lighting Designer)
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Cassie, Fran Rubenstein (Henry V Stage Manager) and Ziggy, Kelly Galvin (Henry V actor) and Ryan Winkles (King Henry V) with ‘G’.
rehearsal and know the area and enjoy being
outside for the summer.”
Rubenstein said that the dogs really
come to consider the Dog House their home
,and all of them seem to love having a summer in the Berkshires.
“Would I rather be in New York City for
the summer instead of the beautiful Berkshires?” Rubenstein jokingly asked. “And, of
course, Ziggy would rather be here, too.”
But even with all those dogs running
around, the real key to the summer is the
work they are bringing to the stage.
For Winkles, his wife, Kelly Galvin, and
Rubenstein that meant finally preparations for
that night’s opening of “Henry V” when The
View stopped by to meet the pups.
Winkles explained that the play they
have been working on really shows how
close the cast has become working and living
together as they get ready to open.
“This show really benefits from the great
connection of the cast, we all know each
other so well that it all comes so natural,”
Winkles said. “And that gives us the freedom
to hear and really connect with the words and
to make the play the best experience for the
audience.”
According to Winkles, much liking living in a house full of dogs, “Henry V” is very
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`Turbulence
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Lukolo:
Anti-Capitalist
group in the
Berkshires
By Nick Dayal
L
ukolo is an anti-capitalist/antiimperialist solidarity initiative
formed in the Berkshires by
recent college graduates who
believe in internationalism, democratic principles, and reconnecting with
land and nature. They do not feel that
the careers offered to them in corporate America are going to be able to
facilitate this relationship, not just as
individuals, but as a new generation
moving forward.
“We’re not trying to create this
exclusive sect,” one of Lukolo’s founding members, Maggie Maillet, explains,
“our work is
about building
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strength amongst
focuses on
ourselves and
democratic
principles,
empowering each
reconnecting other. People are
with land
not like robots,
& nature
we’re not all
the same like
the market says. Our strength is in our
diversity and in establishing political
unity. We’re finding a new way to solve
problems collectively; constructing a
new way of doing politics that goes
beyond a voting model.”
After the Vietnam War, Maillet’s
family was economically displaced
from the Berkshires before she was
born. The daughter of a Vietnam veteran, Maillet grew up in Texas and went
on to attend Hunter College in 2001,
majoring in Feminist Economics. She
started her career in advertising and
then moved on to work for hedge funds
in New York City.
“Here I am working in the pinnacle of capitalism, and seeing how
unstable it really is. In 2006, the hedge
fund I was working for was beginning
to invest in Collaterized Debt Obligations (CDOs), which were blamed for
the 2008 crash. Firms pitched this new
financial instrument and were promising that there was no risk involved.
“This was guaranteed money forever, and this is the future of investment
banking. I remember being at a table
with seasoned investment managers and
traders who couldn’t believe the promises being made. They were wondering
what was underneath this, and it turned
out to be working peoples homes. There
was a lot of infighting, and between the
10
CDOs and shaky ethics, I began to see
capitalism for what it is. I left in 2007.”
On June 2nd, around forty people
attended Lukolo’s inaugural event at the
Mason Library in Great Barrington with
guest speakers Stephanie McMillan and
Kiki Makandal. Lukolo introduced their
focus on community health and the
value of transformative relationships,
not just between people, but between
groups of people, and people and their
environment.
McMillan is an award winning
political cartoonist and anti-imperialist
organizer from Florida who’s most
recent book is titled Capitalism Must
Die! She gave a theoretical overview
of why capitalism is detrimental and
how to be anti-imperialist. She began
the presentation by defining capitalism/
imperialism, which is the first Point of
Unity within Lukolo: understanding
what capitalism is and how it works.
Maillet explains, “Capitalism is
the production of surplus value for the
benefit of a minority, simply meaning
that whoever owns the land and the
machines used to employ workers to
produce any new value also decides
how that value is used in society. It’s
not up to any individual how it’s used,
it’s up to the mandate of having to
constantly expand capital. The Capitalist class lives off the exploitation of the
working class like a parasite, with no
regard for anything other than growth,
at the expense of human life and the
environment.
“This growth imperative has no
foresight. It can only be measured up to
your nose, because that’s all the market
can do. No matter who you are, what
class you are in, you are enslaved to
this beast called capitalism.” McMillan
outlined with cartoons how to combat
capitalism through political unity and
organizing.
Makandal is a labor solidarity
activist with the Batay Ouvriye Haiti
Solidarity Network who presented an
overview of the imperialist domination
of Haiti over the last hundred years. He
demonstrated Haiti as a weak link in
the international capitalist chain.
“When the earthquake hit Haiti in
2010,” Makandal explains, “U.S. Marines surrounded Haiti and confiscated
money and supplies from aid workers
and agencies trying to reach the Haitian
people. The workers in Haiti are risking
it all fighting this exploitative domination and are seeking international
solidarity, where only together can we
break all of our chains, internationally.”
Lukolo’s next event is July 8th at
6pm, at Ramsdell Library in Housatonic. They invite people to join in a
common practice of “rememory” with a
film screening of Ten Thousand Black
Men Named George. Maillet describes
the upcoming event, “The reason we’re
hosting this event is to introduce a
practice of rememory, and to watch this
great film. We’ve noticed over our lifetime there has been an amnesia we’ve
all experienced, especially through pop
culture. We want to regather this history
of where we’ve come from to build a
baseline for how to move forward as we
face such uncertain times.”
“We don’t have all the answers,”
Maillet explains, “we invite people to
join in discussion and start organizing
against imperialism. Everybody has a
voice. Whatever the perspective may
be, it’s able to be incorporated. This
isn’t just the exchanging of high ideals
that sounded good in a book. We want
to learn from each other’s learned experiences and find ways to solve the new
problems our generation faces.”
If you are interested in learning
more about Lukolo and their Points of
Unity, or upcoming events, visit their
website at lukolo.blogspot.com.
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By SHea Garner
he farmer’s market is a Berkshire County tradition. During the warmer months,
people flood these outdoor pop-up shops for a taste of locally sourced fruit and
produce, among other items. The draw of these popular destinations is not only
the opportunity to browse for food in a peculiar setting, but also the promise of
a variety of organic options from nearby farms and vendors.
These products are appealing due to their fresh nature, and the fact that consumers
know immediately where the product is coming from. But that luxury can also come
with a not-so-luxurious price tag, making some wonder, is it worth it?
The United States Department of Agriculture defines organic agriculture as a farming method that preserves the environment and avoids synthetic materials like pesticides
and antibiotics. The USDA-certified organic standards requirements vary for different products.
According to the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, organic crops must be free of
irradiation, sewage sludge, synthetic fertilizers, prohibited pesticides, and genetically
modified organisms.
Organic livestock must meet federal animal health and wellness standards and be
free of antibiotics or growth hormones, as well as be fed with 100-percent organic feed
and access to the outdoors. Organic multi-ingredient foods must include 95-percent or
more of certified organic content.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations notes that certified
organic products are “generally more expensive than their conventional counterparts.”
Why? Reasons include the limited supply, production costs, mandatory segregation,
and marketing and distribution of the food in question.
Other factors, including increased environmental enhancement and protection,
higher standards for animal welfare, avoidance of pesticide-related health risks, and
rural development, also contribute to the price of organic foods.
George Beebe, a conventional farmer who founded Riverhill Farms in Great Barrington in 1969, is an outspoken advocate of conventional agriculture in the face of the
organic market’s rising popularity.
“Nationally, there’s a huge split in agriculture between alternative agriculture and
conventional agriculture. There are a lot of people who are antagonistic to conventional
agriculture,” Beebe told The Berkshire View. “Conventional agriculture produces food a
lot cheaper than alternative.”
Beebe’s 635-acre farm is a “highly mechanized hay and grain operation” that produces
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310 acres of land annually. The corn is often milled locally for animal feed or used
as ethanol in gasoline. Some of the corn
is even shipped to Great Barrington’s own
Berkshire Mountain Distillers for use in
their popular whiskeys, rum, and vodka.
Berkshire Mountain Distillers notes on its
website that both its Berkshire Bourbon
and New England Corn Whiskey are
“handcrafted in small batches using corn
sourced from a farmer two miles from the
distillery.” Riverhill Farms also produces
hay for horses.
“I’m at the forefront of the people
who are for GMOs,” said Beebe. “You
can’t get non-GMO seeds anymore.
They’re hard to find.”
The Non-GMO Project is a North
American non-profit organization that
strives to preserve and build the nonGMO food supply, as well as educate and
provide consumers with verified nonGMO choices. It defines GMOs as living
organisms whose genetic material has
been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering.
According to the Library of Congress,
GMOs are regulated in the United States
under the Coordinated Framework for
Regulation of Biotechnology, published in
1986, but the form of regulation varies depending on the type of GMO in question.
Plant GMOs are regulated by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service under the
Plant Protection Act, while GMO pesticides and microorganisms are regulated
by the Environmental Protection Agency
pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Toxic
Substances Control Act.
Mandatory labeling of GMOs is only
required “when there is a substantial
difference in the nutritional safety or
characteristics of a new food,” according
to the Colorado State University Extension, though the Non-GMO Project cites a
2012 Mellman Group poll that found that
91-percent of American consumers want
to know if the food they’re purchasing
contains GMOs.
Beebe, however, believes these movements have “tapered off” in the U.S.
“Around here, everybody’s antiGMO, but nationally the movement is
only seven percent and it’s pretty much
stalled,” Beebe said. “I’ve had people
come up to me and tell me I’m mining
the soil — not farming, but mining the
soil. We’re not ruining the earth; we’re
saving the earth. It saves the soil, because
we don’t have to till it up as much but it’s
never enough.”
As the debate rages on, Beebe chalks
it all up to different approaches and
different philosophies when it comes to
farming.
“A lot of people believe if it’s not
natural, it’s illegitimate,” he said. “We’ve
got billions of people to feed in this world
and we can barely keep up with conventional agriculture. It’s unsustainable.”
Despite Beebe’s views on organic
farming, there is certainly a demand for
the product here in the Berkshires, especially in the multitude of farmers markets
springing up across the county. Williamstown, North Adams, Adams, Lanesborough, Pittsfield, Lenox, Lee, Otis,
West Stockbridge, Great Barrington, and
Sheffield, among others, all host farmers
markets throughout the summer season,
where many residents and visitors flock to
find organic, locally grown products.
While the undeniable popularity of organic food continues to grow in the area,
so do the prices, which are often “double
or triple” the cost of their conventional
counterparts, according to Beebe.
“In order to be certified organic you
have to go three years without using
pesticides or chemicals on the land,” said
Beebe. “People are getting ripped off left
and right. There are some people that play
by the rules, but those that don’t are ripping off the public.”
What Beebe is referring to relates to
the generally loose regulations for farmers
markets as opposed to grocery stores.
USDA Organic Certification allows farms
and vendors to sell, label, and represent
their products in store as organic — a
requirement that is notably absent from
something like a farmers market, where
vendors can sell fruit and produce with
not much more than a cardboard sign and
a price tag.
If a seller earns less than $5,000 gross
sales from organic produce per year, their
product does not necessarily need to be
USDA-accredited to be labeled “organic,”
according to the USDA.
The Massachusetts Department of
Agricultural Resources defines farmers
markets as “public markets for the primary purpose of connecting and mutually
benefiting Massachusetts farmers, communities, and shoppers while promoting
and selling products grown and raised by
participating farmers.”
The Massachusetts Department of
Public Health Food Protection Program
interprets these products as fresh produce,
unprocessed honey, maple syrup, and farm
fresh eggs.
The Berkshire Mall in Lanesborough
hosts the Berkshire Farmers Market every
Wednesday and Saturday from early May
to late November.
Nancy Simonds-Ruderman, a health
inspector for the town of Lanesborough,
explained some of the requirements
vendors must meet to participate. Most
vendors must secure a seasonal retail food
permit from the Board of Health, but if a
farmer is just selling fruit or produce, it
isn’t required.
“They don’t have to have [a permit]
because they’re under agricultural law
so they’re exempt,” Ruderman said. “If
they’re doing prepared foods, then they
have to be a Certified Food Protection
Manager.
If a farmer comes to the farmers market and cooks corn on site, now they’re
“Around here, everybody’s anti-GMO, but nationally
the movement is only seven percent
and it’s pretty much stalled.“
George Beebe, owner/operator riverhill farms
preparing food, so they are supposed to
also go through pretty much the same type
of protocol. Some towns would also make
them take a food safety class but we don’t
because it’s not a high-risk food.”
The state DAR also notes that bulk,
unpackaged foods available for consumer
self-dispensing only need to be labeled
with a “card, sign, or other method of
notification,” while bulk, unpackaged
foods that are portioned to consumer
specification do not need to be labeled if
health, nutrition content, or other claims
are not made. However, ingredient and
major food allergen information must be
available to consumers upon request.
While local consumers tend to be
willing to pay more if something is
labeled “organic,” many are just as likely
to dole out the extra cash if a product is
made here in the Berkshires.
Very often the terms “organic” and
“local” go hand-in-hand. But many truly
local farmers are subject to a grueling
selection process in order to participate in
area farmers markets, sometimes causing them to stay away from the situations
entirely.
The Berkshire View’s sister publication, The Berkshire Record, recently
published a story highlighting the vendor
vetting process, in which News Editor
Terry Cowgill discovered the restrictive
admissions requirements of the Great Barrington Farmers Market.
Cowgill found that a steering committee made up of five existing vendors
decides who’s in and who’s out. If an
applicant wants to sell a product that is
already being sold in the market, they are
often rejected.
Ted Dobson, owner of Equinox Farm
in Sheffield, one of the true certified
organic farms in Berkshire County, used
to participate in a farmers market in
Union Square in Manhattan in the early
‘80s, where he recalled a much different
atmosphere.
“There was then and now a great
diversity of product there, as well as duplication between products from farms,”
Dobson told The Record. “Instead of
hurting individual vendors, it contributed
to the overall appeal of making choices
between them and ultimately contributing
to everyone’s overall sales.”
Dobson, one of the first vendors at the
original Great Barrington Farmers Market,
no longer participates, instead selling his
farm fresh produce to local grocers like
the Berkshire Coop in Great Barrington,
Guido’s Marketplace in Great Barrington
and Pittsfield, and Price Chopper stores all
over the Berkshires, among others.
“I’ve been disappointed with the point
of view of the farmers who took over that
market,” said Dobson. “I have found it
curious that the Great Barrington Farmers
Market became very exclusive and the
farmers became very protective of their
turf.”
With reputable organic vendors like
Dobson opting out of the farmers markets
and questionably vague state regulations
for those that do decide to participate, it’s
worth taking another look at who these
vendors are really selling to.
If a product can’t be wholly trusted as
either local or organic, then why pay the
higher price?
It’s safe to say that millennials are far
more informed about the organic market
than their parents were at their age, often
choosing to eat organic, locally sourced
food over the processed alternative.
But millennials, sometimes burdened
with student loans and entry-level salaries,
don’t necessarily have the additional
funds to purchase a wholly organic grocery list.
Whole Foods Market, one of the
largest natural and organic grocers in the
country, has recognized this problem and
announced plans in early May to launch
a new chain of stores targeting millennial
customers called 365.
These smaller stores will compete
with popular companies like Trader Joe’s,
offering a limited selection of health items
at value prices by partnering with their
existing distribution channels to improve
efficiency, according Forbes.
“We are excited to introduce 365 by
Whole Foods Market to bring healthy
foods to even more communities with a
fresh, quality-meets-values shopping experience that’s fun and convenient,” said
Jeff Turnas, president of 365 in a statement. “A modern, streamlined design with
innovative technology and a carefully
curated product mix will offer an efficient
and rewarding way to grocery shop.”
With nationally recognized companies adapting to the changing economic
environment, local farmers markets may
find themselves having to do the same. Finding ways to bring prices down to
better serve the local community would
help put organic farmers in more direct
competition with conventional farmers like Beebe, who believe the organic
movement is just a trend.
“It’s just like any fad in fashion —
it’ll run its course,” Beebe said. “These
people coming out of the city will pay
anything for this stuff. They see organic
and they go nuts. It’s all merchandising.
It’s all public opinion.”
But with many young consumers embracing the undeniable benefits of organic
food, it’s the conventional farmers who
may need to adapt as well.
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Theater Group production. At the Unicorn
Theatre, 6 East Street, Stockbridge. 2 p.m.
(413) 298-5576.
“Deathtrap”, Berkshire Theater Group presents.
At the Fitzpatrick Main Stage, 83 East Main Street,
Stockbridge. 2 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
“The Comedy of Errors”, At Shakespeare and
Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 7:30 (413)
637-3353.
“Man of La Mancha”, Barrington Stage presents.
At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street,
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
“Shining City,” Barrington Stage Company
presents. At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing
Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 4 and
7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
“The How and the Why”, at Shakespeare and
Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 8:30 p.m.
(413) 637-3353.
39 South St., Pittsfield, MA 413.443.7171 Berkshiremuseum.org
James Taylor, at Tanglewood, 297 West Street,
Lenox. 7 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Wind Power: Schubert, Boccherini, Mozart,
the Aston Magna Music Festival presents at The
Daniel Arts Center at Simon’s Rock, 84 Alford
Road, Great Barrington. 6 p.m. (413) 528-3595.
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popular event in downtown Pittsfield. 10 a.m.
(413) 447-7763.
The Capitol Steps, at Cranwell Resort, 55 Lee
Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
Sunday, July 5
Theater
Pittsfield. 5 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
“Shining City,” a Barrington Stage Company
production. At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.
3 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
The Comedy of Errors, At Shakespeare and
Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 7:30 (413)
637-3353.
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p.m. (888) 266-1200.
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from July 6 to July 26.
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Tuesday, July 7
(413) 298-5576.
“Deathtrap”,Berkshire Theater Group
presents. At the Fitzpatrick Main Stage, 83
East Main Street, Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413)
997-4444.
(413) 298-5576.
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
production. At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 7:30
p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Henry V, at Shakespeare and Company, 70
Kemble Street, Lenox. 7:30 p.m. (413) 637-3353.
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Songwriters Cabaret, at the Sydelle and Lee
Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street,
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Tanglewood Brass Spectacular, at Tanglewood, 297 West Street, Lenox. 7 p.m. (888)
266-1200.
Other
Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
Eternal, Part of Mass Live Arts. At the Daniel
Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Rumstick Road, The Wooster Group presents,
part of Mass Live Arts. At the Daniel Arts
Center, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington. 8
p.m. (617) 877-3407.
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2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
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James Taylor, Tanglewood presents the
Berkshire county favorite with his All-Star
band for a special
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The Big Lebowski, the
Mahaiwe Performing
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screening of the Cohen
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Jeff Bridges on July 24.
The Mount Ghost Walks, at the Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox. 7:30 p.m. (413) 551-5111.
Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Thursday, July 9
Theater
Theater Group production. At the Unicorn Theatre, 6 East Street, Stockbridge. 2 and 7 p.m.
(413) 298-5576.
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
production. At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 4 and
7:30 p.m. (413)236-8888.
(413) 637-3353.
Bells Are Ringing, The Berkshire Theater Group
presents. At The Colonial Theater, 111 South
Street, Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
YOUARENOWHERE, Part of Mass Live Arts. At
the Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great
Barrington. 8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Music
Bryn Terfel, the bass-baritone performs at Seji
Ozawa Hall. At Tanglewood, 297 West Street,
Lenox. 8 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Lewis Black, the
comedian and Daily
Show alumni performs stand up at
the Williamstown
theater Festival on
July 13.
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Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Friday, July 10
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(413) 298-5576.
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
production. At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 7:30
p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 8 p.m.
(413) 637-3353.
“Bells Are Ringing”, Berkshire Theater Group
“Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped
a World”, at Shakespeare and Company, 70
“YOUARENOWHERE”, Part of Mass Live Arts.
At the Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great
Barrington. 8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
YOUARENOWHERE, Part of Mass Live Arts. At
the Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great
Barrington. 8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Tanglewood Music Center Recital, At Tanglewood, 297 West Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (888)
266-1200.
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Toshi Reagon, at MASS MoCA, 1040 Mass MoCA
Way, North Adams. 8 p.m. (413) 662-2111.
Bramwell Tovey, At Tanglewood, 297 West
Street, Lenox. 8:30 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
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MassBliss, the three day Arts and Awareness
Experience at Ski Butternut, 380 State Road,
Great Barrington. Massbliss.com.
The Capitol Steps, a show of hilarious political
satire and song parodies. At Cranwell Resort, 55
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Monday, July 13
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
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Doll Parts, at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 84
Alford Road, Great Barrington. 9:30 p.m. (617)
877-3407.
Stephane Deneve, conducting Barber, Poulenc
and Satin-Saens featuring organist Cameron
Carpenter. At Tanglewood, 297 West Street,
Lenox. 8:30 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
MassBliss, at Ski Butternut, 380 State Road, Great
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Thoreau or, Return to Walden, a Berkshire Theater Group production. At the Unicorn Theatre,
6 East Street, Stockbridge. 2 and 8 p.m. (413)
298-5576.
Deathtrap, Berkshire Theater Group presents. At
the Fitzpatrick Main Stage, 83 East Main Street,
Stockbridge. 2 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Man of La Mancha, Barrington Stage presents.
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
“Shining City,” Barrington Stage Company
presents. At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing
Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 4 and
7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
(413) 637-3353.
Bells Are Ringing, the Berkhsire Theater Group
Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a
World, at Shakespeare and Company, 70 Kemble
Street, Lenox. 5:30 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
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Theater
“Bells Are Ringing”, the Berkshire Theater Group
presents. The Colonial Theater, 111 South Street,
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Mount Greylock Jazz Festival, featuring the
Ben Kohn Trio, The David Ullman Band, Lauren
Lee’s Space Jazz and the Wes Brown Trio with
Jill Connolly. At Bascom Lodge, Mount Greylock
State Park, Adams. 12 to 5 p.m. (413) 743-1591.
Ludovic Morlot, conducting a program of John
Luther Adams, Mozart and Dvorak featuring
violinist Pinchas Zuckerman. At Tanglewood, 297
West Street, Lenox. 2:30 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
“Bells Are Ringing”, the Berkshire Theater
Group presents. At The Colonial Theater, 111
South Street, Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Music
Pink Martini, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts
Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington. 8
p.m. (413) 528-0100.
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Paradise Lew, an evening of stand up with Lewis
Black. Part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival,
1000 Main Street, Williamstown. 7:30 p.m. (413)
597-3400.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
More or Les All of It, part of Mass Live Arts. At
The Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great
Barrington. 8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Tuesday, July 14
Friday, July 17
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Kemble Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 637-3353.
“Bells Are Ringing,” the Berkshire Theater
“Thank You For Coming”: Play, Part of Mass
Live Arts. At The Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford
Road, Great Barrington. 7 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
“Deathtrap’, Berkshire Theater Group presents.
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
group presents. At The Colonial Theater, 111
A Little More Alive, Barrington Stage Company
presents. At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 7:30
p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Street, Lenox. 5:30 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
“Lost in Yonkers”, presented by Barrington
Stage Company. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413)
236-8888.
“I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn’t
Even Smile”, presented by Berkshire Theater
Group at The Unicorn Theater, 6 East Street,
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
“Send for the Million Men”, Part of Mass Live
Arts. At The Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road,
Great Barrington. 8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
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Wednesday, July 15
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
(413) 637-3353.
“Henry V”, at Shakespeare and Company, 70
Berkshire Playwrights Lab: Harper, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street,
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Moonshine Holler, performing part of the free
concert series in downtown Lenox. At Lilac Park,
Lenox. 7 p.m. (413) 637-5500.
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Theater
Music
UnderScore Friday Evening, featuring
Schumann and Mozart performed by Baiba
Skride and conducted by Christian Zacharias.
p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Thursday, July 16
Saturday, July 18
Stockbridge. 2 and 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
“The How and the Why,” at Shakespeare and
(413) 637-3353.
Street, Pittsfield. 2 and 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Hamlet, Shakespeare and Company presents.
At the Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox. 6 p.m.
(413) 551-5111.
“Lost in Yonkers”, presented by Barrington Stage
Company. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30
Union Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413)236-8888.
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Send for the Million Men, Part of Mass Live Arts.
At The Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great
Barrington. 8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
“A Little More Alive”, Barrington Stage Company presents. At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.
7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
At the Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox. 11 a.m.
(413) 551-5111.
The Unexpected Man, at Shakespeare and
(413) 637-1199.
“Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped
a World”, at Shakespeare and Company, 70
“Lost in Yonkers”, presented by Barrington Stage
Union Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413)236-8888.
Stockbridge. 2 and 8 p.m. (413)997-4444.
“Send for the Million Men”, part of Mass Live
Theater
Music
Baiba Skride and Sarah Connolly, at Tanglewood, 297 West Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (888)
266-1200.
Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Theater
Music
Christian Zacharias and Sarah Connolly, at
Tanglewood, 297 West Street, Lenox. 8:30 p.m.
(888) 266-1200.
Eternal Seasons: Vivaldi and Bach, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street,
Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Sunday, July 19
Theater
(413) 637-1199.
A Little More Alive, Barrington Stage Company.
At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts
Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 3 p.m. (413)
236-8888.
Lost in Yonkers, presented by Barrington Stage
Union Street, Pittsfield. 5 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Music
Chesterfest, on the grounds of Chesterwood.
4 Williamsville Road, Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m.
(413) 298-3579.
Tanglewood Music Center, Chamber Music
Concert. At Tanglewood, 297 West Street, Lenox.
10 a.m. (888) 266-1200.
Sir Neville Marriner, featuring pianist Paul
Lewis in a program of Mozart and Schumann.
p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Audra McDonald, live performance at Tanglewood, 297 West Street, Lenox. 8:30 p.m. (888)
266-1200.
Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
2 and 5 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
The National Theater of the United States of
America, Part of Mass Live Arts. At The Daniel
(617) 877-3407.
Monday, July 20
Theater
Deathtrap, Berkshire Theater Group presents. At
the Fitzpatrick Main Stage, 83 East Main Street,
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Bells Are Ringing, the Berkshire Theater Group
I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn’t
Even Smile, presented by Berkshire Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Song for a Future Generation, free theater
performance part of the Williamstown Theatre
Festival, 1000 Main Street, Williamstown. (413)
597-3400.
Music
Alysha Umphress: I’ve Been Played, at the
Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36
Linden Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Stefan Asbury, at Tanglewood, 297 West Street,
Lenox. 2:30 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
(617) 877-3407.
House/Lights, Part of Mass Live Arts. At The
Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington. 8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Tuesday, July 21
Theater
Deathtrap, Berkshire Theater Group presents. At the Fitzpatrick Main Stage, 83
997-4444.
Bells Are Ringing, the Berkshire Theater
Group presents. At The Colonial Theater,
111 South Street, Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413)
997-4444.
“A Little More Alive”, Barrington Stage
Company presents. At the Sydelle and Lee
Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden
Street, Pittsfield. 7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Hamlet, Shakespeare and Company presents. At the Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox.
6 p.m. (413) 551-5111.
Stage Company. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. 7 p.m.
(413) 236-8888.
“I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I
Didn’t Even Smile”, presented by Berkshire
Theater Group at The Unicorn Theater, 6 East
Street, Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Music
Paul Lewis, the pianist will perform an allBeethoven program. At Tanglewood, 297
West Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Other
The National Theater of the United States
of America, Part of Mass Live Arts. At The
Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Road, Great
Barrington. (617) 877-3407.
Wednesday, July 22
Theater
“Deathtrap”, Berkshire Theater Group
997-4444.
“The How and the Why”, at Shakespeare
and Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 8:30
p.m. (413) 637-3353.
Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden
Street, Pittsfield. 7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Kinship, part of the Williamstown Theatre
Festival, 1000 Main Street, Williamstown. 2
and 7:30 p.m. (413) 597-3400.
Stage Company. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. 2 and 7
p.m. (413) 236-8888.
“I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I
Didn’t Even Smile”, presented by Berkshire
Theater Group at The Unicorn Theater, 6 East
Street, Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Music
Rhiannon Giddens, live performance at Infinity Music Hall & Bistro, 20 Greenwoods Road,
West Norfolk, Conn. 8 p.m. (860) 560-7757.
BUTI students, performing part of the free
concert series in downtown Lenox. At Lilac
Park, Lenox. 7 p.m. (413) 637-5500.
Oliver Knussen, with pianist Peter Serkin,
tenor Nicholas Phan and the Tanglewood
Music Center Orchestra, part of the Festival
of Contemporary Music. At Tanglewood, 297
Other
satire and song parodies. At Cranwell Resort,
55 Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
of America, part of Mass Live Arts. At The
Barrington. (617) 877-3407.
Thursday, July 23
Theater
East Main Street, Stockbridge. 2 and 7 p.m.
(413)997-4444.
Henry V, at Shakespeare and Company,
70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 8:30 p.m. (413)
637-3353.
“Bells are Ringing,” At The Colonial Theater,
111 South Street, Pittsfield. 2 and 7 p.m.
(413) 997-4444.
Pittsfield. 3 and 7:30 p.m. (413)236-8888.
(413) 637-1199.
(413) 551-5111.
236-8888.
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
The Tarot Show, Part of Mass Live Arts. At
Barrington. 6 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Tarzana, Part of Mass Live Arts. At The Daniel
8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Other
55 Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
of America, Part of Mass Live Arts. At The
Barrington. (617) 877-3407.
Friday, July 24
Theater
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413)997-4444.
“Bells Are Ringing”, at The Colonial Theater, 111
“The Unexpected Man”, at Shakespeare and
(413) 637-1199.
7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Kinship, part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1000 Main Street, Williamstown. 8 p.m.
(413) 597-3400.
19
Street, Lenox. 5:30 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
Lost in Yonkers, presented by Barrington Stage
Company. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage,
30 Union Street, Pittsfield. 2 and 8 p.m. (413)
236-8888.
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Music
Cristoph con Dohnanyi, conducting an allBeethoven program featuring violinist Vadim
Gluzman. At Tanglewood, 297 West Street,
Lenox. 8:30 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Other
“The Big Lebowski”, a screening of the classic Cohen Brothers Comedy. At the Mahaiwe
Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great
Barrington. 8 p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
(617) 877-3407.
Saturday, July 25
Theater
East Main Street, Stockbridge. 2 and 8 p.m.
(413) 997-4444.
“The How and the Why”, at Shakespeare
and Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 8:30
p.m. (413) 637-3353.
Pittsfield. 3 and 7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
At the Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox. 11
a.m. (413) 551-5111.
(413) 637-1199.
Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped
a World, at Shakespeare and Company,
70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 5:30 p.m. (413)
637-1199.
236-8888.
8 p.m. (617) 877-3407.
Music
Musical Shorts, At the Sydelle and Lee Blatt
Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street,
Pittsfield. 10 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Dawn Upshaw, the soprano performs as part
of the Festival of Contemporary Music. At
Tanglewood, 297 West Street, Lenox. 2:30
p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Michael Tilson Thomas, conducting a program of Mozart and Hahler featuring pianist
Emanuel Ax. At Tanglewood, 297 West Street,
Lenox. 8:30 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
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Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
(617) 877-3407.
Sunday, July 26
Theater
(413) 637-3353.
3 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
236-8888.
MLA Institute Performance, Part of Mass Live
Music
Musical Shorts, at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.
8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Chesterfest, Chesterwood. 4 Williamsville Road,
Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m. (413) 298-3579.
Stefan Asbury, conducting the Tanglewood
Music Center Orchestra as part of the Festival of
Contemporary Music. At Tanglewood, 297 West
Street, Lenox. 10 a.m. (888) 266-1200.
Christoph von Dohnanyi, conducting an allMozart program. At Tanglewood, 297 West
Street, Lenox. 2:30 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Other
A Hard Days Night, a screening of the classic
Beatles film. At the Mahaiwe Performing Arts
Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington. 7
p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
(617) 877-3407.
Monday, July 27
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Music
Broadway and Beyond, Barrington Stage Company presents Marin Mazzie and Jason Daineley
perform their favorite songs from Broadway and
the Great American Songbook.At the Boyd
Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield.
8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Michael Tilson Thomas, conducting the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. At Tanglewood,
297 West Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
America, a gallery exhibit consisting of illustrations and commentary from their forthcoming
volume A New Practical Guide to Rhetorical
Gesture and Action. Part of Mass Live Arts. At
Barrington. (617) 877-3407.
Tuesday, July 28
Theater
7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
(413) 551-5111.
236-8888.
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Wednesday, July 29
Theater
7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
(413) 637-1199.
Stage Company. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. 2 and 7 p.m.
(413) 236-8888.
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413)997-4444.
Berkshire Playwrights Lab: Match , staged readings of new plays. At the Mahaiwe Performing
Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington.
7:30 p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune, Berkshire
Theater Group presents. At the Fitzpatrick Main
Stage, 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge. 7 p.m.
(413) 997-4444.
Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
Thursday, July 30
Theater
3 and 7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Hamlet, Shakespeare and Company presnts.
(413) 551-5111.
“The Unexpected Man”, at Shakespeare and
(413) 637-1199.
“Mother of the Maid”, at Shakespeare and
(413) 637-1199.
236-8888.
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Theater Group presents. At the Fitzpatrick Main
Stage, 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge. 7 p.m.
(413) 997-4444.
Music
The Knights, with Awet Andemicael, Nicholas
Phan and Kyle Ketelsen. At Tanglewood, 297
Other
Lee Road, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 881-1636.
Friday, July 31
Theater
Pittsfield. 7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Unknown Soldier, part of the Williamstown
Theatre Festival, 1000 Main Street, Williamstown. 8 p.m. (413) 597-3400.
“Mother of the Maid”, at Shakespeare and
(413) 637-1199.
Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped
a World, at Shakespeare and Company, 70
Kemble Street, Lenox. 5:30 p.m. (413) 6371199.
236-8888.
“Shrek the Musical”, presented by Barrington
Stage Company at the Berkshire Museum, 39
I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn’t
Even Smile, presented by Berkshire Theater
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Paradise Blue, part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1000 Main Street, Williamstown.
8 p.m. (413) 597-3400.
Theater Group presents. At the Fitzpatrick
Main Stage, 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge.
8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
The Club, presented by Berkshire Theater
Group. At the Garage at the Colonial Theater, 111 South Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413)
997-4444.
Music
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, community event
of Folk music and dance. Berkshire Dodds Farm,
44 County Route 7D, Hillsdale N.Y. Noon to 12
a.m. (866) 325-2744.
Late-Night Cabaret, showcasing the talents of
the festival artists both established and emerging
in evening cabarets. Part of the Williamstown
Theatre Festival, at the Sanctuary, Route 43
and Route 2, Williamstown. 10:30 p.m. (413)
597-3400.
UnderScore Friday Evening, Ken-David Masur
conducts a program of Weber, Schubert and
Beethoven featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson.
p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Music After Hours, lively evening performances
from the area’s best musicians. At the Mount, 2
Plunkett Street, Lenox. 5 to 8 p.m. (413) 551-5111.
JP Harris & The Tough Choices, at Club Helsinki
Hudson. 405 Columbia Street, Hudson, N.Y. 9
p.m. (518) 828-4800.
Other
`Music
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Ross Jenssen:
from Berkshire
basement to
big stage
By Nick Dayal
S
orry!” I apologized to one of the
couple thousand Disc Jam 2015 attendees for my two left feet, one of
which stepped on hers during Ross
Jenssen’s debut performance at Disc Jam in
Stephentown, N.Y. on June 12.
“No worries!” she laughed, “These guys
are amazing!” The young girl didn’t break
stride or her smile as we continued to dance
without abandon
►► Berkshire
when Jules Jensnatives are
sen, the drumstepping into
mer, gave Brian
the limelight
Ross, the bassist,
a knowing look
before Ross dove into a riff on his bass that lit
up the crowd and any lingering frowns.
Arriving mostly sober and without the
liquid courage I usually require to dance in
public I disposed of my predisposed notion
that I would watch from the sidelines the moment Ross Jenssen took the stage and Jenssen
picked up the microphone: “Thank you,
guys so much for coming to this set. We’re
so excited to do this!” I wound up front and
center amidst happy dancers, transfixed on
what was occurring on stage, and apparently,
not too concerned with where my feet landed.
Ross Jenssen takes you on a journey
through a landscape of sounds: from a spacegroovy 80s feel leading into a polyrhythmic
Super Mario world of electronic sounds,
followed by a middle-eastern sitar that had
people swaying like snakes in front of a
snake-charmer, into a funky drop-your-buttto-the-floor song that takes a heavy-fusion,
metally-turn where peoples hair were flying
in all directions, cooling off into a downtempo ambient song before firing up again.
Ross, a relatively reserved individual in
person, transforms on stage into–the most appropriate word I can use–would be rockstar.
Tall and skinny, from the waist down his hips
and legs move like the reincarnation of Elvis,
his long arms and fingers navigate the bass
with an expertise that, of course, displays
lots of practice, but also, a gift that is rare
and very evident, while his head and neck,
rock back and forth like a Velociraptor on the
hunt. Ross describes how he feels on stage,
“Focused and loose, I can just fully express
myself, and when your’e grooving, you’re
having fun.”
Sam McGaritty, the newer of the trio, but
not new to the stage, and certainly not new to
a guitar, displays his proficiency by pulling a
variety of sound from his guitar and dropping
into some mind-shattering riffs, with his longred hair flying and mouth wide-open like a
Photos contributed
Berkshire natives Brian Ross and Jules Jenssen got their start jamming in the Jenssen family basement. Today they’ve headlined
festivals and performed across the country, and are making waves with their latest band Ross Jenssen.
dog hanging his head out the window of a
moving car, McGaritty’s sound and presence
is infectious.
Jenssen looks over his drum set like a
captain at the helm of a ship, swinging his
arms and hands down on the drums to and
fro in unnatural movements but with natural
ease, with his mouth slightly ajar and the hint
of a tongue and a smile, his energy is transferred through his drums into the audience.
Jenssen has travelled and toured with a lot of
different bands for a long time, and it’s clear
that his natural habitat is behind a drum set.
Drawing from the improv driven sound
of their previous projects they took their new
completely composed set and made it feel
at home amidst a line-up featuring many
improv-friendly bands, but how do they play
such a variety of music in such a harmonious and organic way? Jenssen explains their
approach, “Jam is literally a mix of different
styles. What makes funk, funk, and afrobeat,
afrobeat, and jazz, jazz, as much as the notes,
composition, and human element is the
tonality of the production and the aesthetic
of the presentation, whether it’s auditory or
visually. You can’t mix five sections of the
same song differently otherwise it sounds like
you’re trying to play every idea you’ve ever
had. What we’re trying to do is play different
styles, but to really do each one justice. Every
song we write doesn’t have to be a crazy
metal song, or a funky-funk track. We now
have a way to write those feels with our own
style, and sonically make them work in a way
that is unique, and us. It allows us to write a
song that tonally and rhythmically fits that
style, and mix it sonically to fit that style,
and it’s all of sudden focused, and shows
how you can have a metal song go next to an
ambient, ethereal feel, and have it feel like
it all makes sense. Our show becomes one
huge composition that is focused points that
embellish the vibe of each style.”
Ross Jenssen’s sound has developed
from years of discovering what works for
them, and what doesn’t work, and this long
story starts decades ago in the Berkshires.
Jenssen was born in Housatonic in his
parents’ house in 1989, and Ross was born at
BMC in Pittsfield in 1991.
This isn’t a movie or VH1 documentary,
yet, but it begins like many of our childhood
dreams of becoming famous musicians do: in
a basement.
Both grew up in a family of musicians.
“My dad and brother are musicians,” Jenssen
says,” there are pictures of me playing the
drums when I was a year-and-a half-old, but I
really started around eleven.” Ross recalls the
first time he picked up the bass, “In 7th grade,
my friends were starting a band and needed
a bass player, and since my mom is a music
teacher I knew we had a crappy old violin
bass, like Paul McCartney’s, laying around
the house, so I lied, and said that I play the
bass.” Ross’s fake it ‘til you make it strategy
paid off a couple years later at an open mic
night Jenssen was putting on for the Railroad
Street Youth Project in 2005.
“I was playing with Clayton Squire,
Jesse Putnam, and Steve Torres in the
Complete Unknowns,” Jenssen recalls the
first time he heard Ross play, “Brian, this
goofy, long haired, lanky, almost-9th grader
with a bass strapped on, rolled up like ‘Can
I play?’ We had a full line-up but there was a
little time left at the end so I went looking for
him. Brian played and I remember thinking,
‘That’s gnarly, this kid’s got something going
on.’ and I told him once I got my license I’d
pick him up and we’d start playing. Soon
enough we were just jamming in the basement a lot.” That basement being at Jenssen’s
house in Egremont that his mother and father
built in 1991.
Jenssen, Ross, and Squire, along with
rapper Jackson Whalan, formed the group
called Absynth, and later without Whalan,
continued playing under the name Higher
Organix.
“The Monument Mountain talent show
was our first performance,” Ross describes
their first performance, “which was like,
‘We’re going to put together the crappiest
little song of all time and perform it,’ and it
worked out. After that we had the foundation
to start doing shows at Searles, which was
Youth Project inspired.”
Jenssen, who worked for the Railroad
Street Youth Project during this period,
recalls this time in their lives. “After the
talent show, we realized there is this whole
demographic of kids who are creative, who
want to play, and people who want to support
and see live music. Utilizing this demographic of our peers, and even younger kids, all of
whom couldn’t get into bars, it’s a period of
time where there’s a void. There’s nothing for
us to do, and we know a boring summer can
lead to idle hands or trouble. So our community of youth-driven, inspired people gave us
a fan base, a direction, and an outlet to learn
how to do create these productions, and that
allowed us to bring it out on a larger scale.”
They started producing their own shows,
playing house parties, and created small
Berkshire festivals starting with Shirefest in
2007, and Shangri-La, with their big break
coming in 2009 when they booked OTT, a
U.K. producer with numerous production
accolades, to play with them at Eastover in
Lenox. “We had people come from all over,”
Jenssen explains, “promoters and fans that
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gave us the connections to start playing in
Boston, and New York.”
Higher Organix headlined their own
festivals, Let It Roll, the Big Up in 2010,
2011, and 2013, and the hundreds of fans and
attendees became thousands. However, no
good success story is complete without a fair
amount of failures, of which Ross Jenssen
has endured many, one being the ultimate
“catfish” story.
In 2012, Higher Organix set out to
Ohio where they were booked to headline a
festival called “Rockin’ Rave.” “We drove all
through the night,” Jenssen recalls the journey, “after hitting a time-warp on the GPS,
where at one point it said we were nine hours
away, and two hours later, with no wrong
turns or stops, we were still nine hours away.
When we finally got to Bellefontaine, the
only light on was at the gift shop, and after
some debate between the only two people
there they decided to put us in ‘the Bear,’
which apparently was a ‘nicer’ cabin than
‘the Hawk.’ So, Pony Boy, this little kid with
a raging case of pink eye was like, ‘follow
me up to the Bear.’ He jumped on a little bike
Jill Culver
Ross Jenssen at their debut performs at the Disc Jam festival in Stephentown, N.Y.
on June 12.
that was smaller than too small, and trudged
up these sandy, soggy, Indian reservation
roads, bringing us to this building that’s like
one you’d see on a paintball course. It was
literally plywood on cinderblocks, rotted
out with zero insolation. ‘Here it is!’ he said,
showing us into the back room, which was
behind the second piece of plywood, and
there were two bunk beds, with these sickly,
pork-colored, thin, foam mattresses that congealed down to a hard block with the sweat
and funk of a thousand summers. It was so
disgusting I immediately ran outside and
puked.” It was late October and freezing, for-
tunately, Jenssen had brought a space-heater
that they managed to fall asleep around. “The
promoter finally showed up around noon the
next day and told us that people were on the
way, but when we went outside there was not
a single person. Just four or five pissed off
metal bands from Cleveland.”
The band experienced what some might
call the ultimate catfish, and left empty-handed, but free of Pony Boy, and his raging case
of pink eye.
Higher Organix broke up some time
later, but Ross and Jenssen continued playing
together with various guitar players, including Jon Grusauskas, in a band called Search
Party. The search party was over when they
first played with Sam McGarrity. “It just felt
good,” Jenssen remembers, “it was a good
fit,” and now the trio of Ross Jenssen has
formed, a three-headed dragon who all spit
fire with a common goal. “I just want to keep
playing with Jules and B-Ross,” McGarrity
explains.
To hear the bands debut album,
“Phrases,” or watch their Disc Jam set, or to
see upcoming shows, visit their website rossjenssen.com or you can digitally download
the album at rossjenssen.bandcamp.com.
`local
`
bands
Website: whiskeycityband.com
Email: [email protected]
Patrick Gray Jr.
Acoustic Rock
Gray comes from a musical family; he grew up
listening to his father play folk music whether
around a camp fire or performing on stage to
large crowds. “By 16, I was playing in local
rock bands,” Gray said. “Shortly thereafter I
was bitten by the recording bug, after doing
a few backing tracks in a local studio.” He
owns Shire Sound, a cozy project/recording
studio nestled in the Berkshire Hills. His
performances, which have been likened to
everyone from John Mayer to Edwin McCain,
can be seen throughout northern Berkshire
County.
Website: reverbnation.com/patrickgray
`Live
`
Music
Tony Lee Thomas
Indie Rock
Imagine the energetic strumming of Richie
Havens and the intricate finger work of Bert
Jansch. Add a vocal style that summons
Stevie Wonder and Martin Sexton. Then
take a songwriting vocabulary as poignant as
Ani DiFranco, playful as John Prine, and add
commanding stage presence, then you have
Tony Lee Thomas. In central Berkshire County
Thomas has become a must-see performer,
who is now catching on throughout New
England performing both intimate and
poignant solo performances and full-blown
commanding vamps with his rock band, the
Tony Lee Thomas Band.
Website: tonyleethomas.com
Phone: (413) 218-8307
Booking information: shannon@
wickedcoolproductions.com
Whiskey City
Gypsy Joynt
The Joynt offers some of the best local
musicians the Berkshires have to offer, as well
as acts from across the country, and with the
stage at the center of the restaurant, seating
will put you right up in front of the acts for
an intimate fun showcase. If performing
is for you, try out your own talents with a
weekly open mic.
293 Main Street,
Great Barrington
413.644.8811
gypsy joyntcafe.net
Milltown Tavern
Newly renovated from what was once
“Benny’s Restaurant” the Milltown Tavern
offers the same spirit of the local spot to
be for food, drinks and music. The tavern is
transformed into a music venue for weekly
offerings of open mics and house bands
as well as performances from local artists.
Come and enjoy a wide selection of craft
and domestic beers, and a full bar. Awardwinning wings and burgers are just some
of the tantalizing offerings you can find on
their menu.
16 depot Street,
Dalton
413.684.0900
Milltowntavern.com
Upstate Concert Hall
Originally called Northern Lights, this venue
is a beloved spot to New York’s capital
region concert go-ers. Catch some of the
top alternative acts and old favorites as well
as local showcases and more. The general
admission format allows anyone to get close,
and the venue offers a well stocked bar and
concessions.
1208 Route 146.
Clifton Park, N.Y.
518.371. 0012
upstateconcerthall.com
PortSmitt’s Restaurant
PortSmitt’s Restaurant, has quickly become
a “Berkshire dining favorite” under the
guidance and expertise, of local Chef Mike
Lewis. For years, Chef Lewis has served
Berkshire County residents and visitors
alike. In addition to being an outstanding
restaurant, PortSmitt’s Restaurant has also
begun hosting great local music from bands
in the Berkshires.
320 Peck Road
Pittsfield
413.236. 5727
portssmittsrestaurant.com
438 North Street
Pittsfield
missionbarandtapas.com
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Fairways at the A
Helsinki Hudson
Get a taste of the Berkshires outside of
Massachusettes. Originally a mainstay in
Great Barrington, Helsinki crossed over
to New York and has thrived in the city of
Hudson. The venue offers both up-andcoming and established bands as well as
great dining and drinks.
Hudson, N.Y.
518.828.4800
helsinkihudson.com
With one of the largest dance floors in the
area, this location is a popular venue. They
cater showers, weddings, seasonal parties,
fundraisers, community events and private
parties. Many nights they feature live
entertainment - regional bands and DJs. They
also host seasonal popular sports tailgating
events with their large HD Screen Television.
303 Crane Ave
Pittsfield
413.442. 3585
fairwaysatthea.com
The Brick House Pub
Located in the heart of Housatonic, this bar
has an impressive mixture of great beer, great
food, and great music to make it a can’t-miss
destination. The space is also home to a series
of local artists and performances from bands
from across the country.
425 Park Street,
Housatonic
413. 274. 0020
brickhousema.com
Katherine Winston
Americana
Katherine Winston is an Americana singersongwriter from Lenox who grew up
Greylock
Rock & Roll Cover Band
Made up of local musicians Kevin Doolan,
Dave Flynn, Bob Jones and Matt McKeever,
this band is known for great classic rock like
the Doobies, Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, Chicago
and more. There classic rock vibe and smooth
sound has filled the Live on the Lake series and
built a large following at venues throughout
Berkshire County. You can find them playing
at Spice Dragon, the ITAM Lodge and may
other venues around Pittsfield all year long.
Phone: (413) 446-5125
Website: facebook.com/ Greylock-the-band
Jordan Weller & The
Feathers
Funk/Reggae
This high-energy band meshes the laid-back
grooves and rhythm of Bob Marley with the
fun and flare of James Brown. Front man
Jordan Weller on guitar and vocals leads
the group also comprised of guitarist Rob
Sanzone, Miles Lally on bass, drummer
Jason Schulteis and organist Joe Rose. Their
original as well their own spin on covers that
dip across the musical spectrum have vaulted
the band into regional favorites. You’re sure
to catch them at Weller’s home base, the
Gypsy Joynt, throughout the fall as well as
shows springing up across the county and
over the border in New York.
Website: jordanwellermusic.com
Phone: (413) 644-8811
TBone Daddy Trio
Rock & Blues
Guitarist Tyler Fairbank, bassist Jeff Link
and drummer Lou Parreault form the high
energy blues, funk, reggae and rock trio that
draws from both old and new influences.
Mixing both original material and their own
unique spin on covers they have fast become
a fan favorite in the region. The group has
produced three albums and plays throughout
the northeast at clubs, festivals and theaters
Website: tbonedaddytrio.com
`Music
`
Troubadour
shows rock
The Guthrie Center hosts
weekend music series
throughout the summer
Mission Bar + Tapas
For a relaxing intimate atmosphere to take in a
drink and hear some great music Mission Bar
and Tapas is at the top of the list. The venue
located in Pittsfield’s down town, the bar and
music hall offers food throughout the day and
a full bar as well as a special brunch menu. The
site is host to several house bands performing
weekly as well as special performances and a
host of the areas top musicians. An open mic
is also offered every Tuesday to showcase
local undiscovered musicians.
Americana
This band has become a local favorite that can
fill any bar or concert with a packed crowd.
Led by front man Randy Cormier, joined by
band mates Frank Algerio, Beth Maturevich,
Dale Zavatter, Jason Webster and Tim Sears,
Whiskey City is a must see act in the county.
Cormier’s star quality, unique, tireless voice
and infamous audience rapport have made
him a crowd favorite.
listening to all kinds of music, but with a
love of Shania Twain. As she has grown,
her musical influences have changed many
times, from country to folk, from blues to
pop. Now Wilson will tell you she is very into
artists such asJohnny Cash, John Paul White,
The Civil Wars, Matt Corby, and The Lone
Bellow. She has covered almost every genre
at one point or another. However, once she
started writing in the Americana genre, she
felt as though she had found her fit.
Website: reverbnation.com/
katherinewinston
T
he Guthrie Center will continue
its Troubadour series this July,
which brings performers from
across the region to perform at
Arlo Guthrie’s center at the Old Trinity
Chuch.
Performances will be held on Friday
and Saturday nights, with doors opening at
6 p.m. and the shows starting at 8 p.m.
The July concerts kick off on Friday,
July 3 with Seth Glier and Special Guests,
Gracie and Rachel and Saturday, July
4 with a performance by Vishten, an
Acadian band that mixes “rhythms and
dancing with climbing notes and voices.”
On Friday, July 10, The Christine
Spero Group will present the CD release
event “Spero Plays Nyro” a Laura Nyro
Tribute by The Christine Spero Group.
Then on Saturday, July 11, the center
will present Isle of Klezbos a sextet that
plays imaginative versions of eclectic
European-rooted Jewish folk music, Yiddish swing and tango, along with originals.
The following weekend sees performances from soungwriter, poet and recording artists Meg Hutchinson on Friday, July
17 and “songwriter’s song writer David
Wilcox on Saturday, July 18.
Then on Friday, July 24 and Saturday,
July 25, the center will host the “Chapin
Family Reunion”. The special musical
weekend will feature performances by
Tom Chapin, The Jen Chapin Trio, and
The Chapin Sisters.
The Guthrie center closes out the month
Photo contributed
Tom Chapin and the Chapin Family Reunion, and Meg Hutchinson will be part of
the July offerings for the Guthrie Center’s Troubadour Series.
with a performance on Friday, July 31
from country folk musician Marc Berger.
The Guthrie Center will continue to
host the Troubadour series through the
summer, with performances held until
Sept. 5. For a complete list of performances and links to artists profiles visit
guthriecenter.org.
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`Theater
`
Thoreau is a oneman triumph on
the BTG stage for
the summer of
2015
By Harriet F. Bergmann
O
ne-person shows about
famous authors never really
succeed. They never tell you
a “truth” about the writer;
only the work can do that. Worse, they
play on the audience’s most common
assumptions about the author: Julie
Harris’s Emily Dickinson was coyly
secretive; Pat Carroll’s Gertrude Stein
was obscure and gay.
Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre has opened “Thoreau or,
Return to Walden”, a one-person show
written by and starring David Adkins.
Although it informs us about Thoreau’s
politics, philosophy
and sense of self,
►► David
it presents just as
Atkins
flawed a view of
keeps your
attention
Thoreau’s person as
all show
Harris and Carroll
long
did: Adkins’s Thoreau is a crazy man,
an exhorter, one big self-centered rant.
The play opens with David Adkins
standing naked at the back of a simple
stage set—a few stumps, the frame of a
cabin, a rucksack. Yes, naked. But that
beginning is emblematic of everything
Adkins correctly understands about his
hero; Thoreau comes into the world
anew, freshly, every day—or at least he
wants to.
The one-man play is structured
in large part by Thoreau’s essay on
John Brown, the fervent abolitionist
whose raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859
was unsuccessful in rallying slaves to
his cause, and who was arrested and
hanged. Thoreau’s belief in social activism is thus at the forefront of Adkins’s
play.
We first learn of the events of
Thoreau’s life: he tried trade, working
in his father’s pencil-making business,
he tried teaching, he lectured and he
wrote, most famously about his two
years (compressed for his book into
one) at Walden Pond.
He wasn’t anywhere near the loner
we think he was. He could, and very
often did, saunter into nearby Concord
for dinner with his intellectual friends.
He did, though, want to live deliberately, and he did succeed in writing
beautifully.
But there’s the pitfall for the
playwright. In his writing Thoreau can
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temper his ranting exhortations and raving chastisements with context and complexity. When there’s just one man on
the stage, and he’s looking straight out at
the audience (what fourth wall?) you can
feel beaten about the head by Thoreau’s
absolute conviction of rightness.
Further, Adkins plays him as a
kook, or worse, slightly crazy. He’s
working overtime to tell you what he
thinks and scorns you for not thinking
that way, too. The hand gestures, the
head-tossing, the unremittingly loud
voice don’t let us chew on the famous
statements about life at Walden.
There are few moments of quiet
in the play; in one, Adkins plays the
flute, as Henry did, and sings “Tom
Bowling”, Henry’s favorite song, quite
beautifully.
Because the play is structured by
the issue of slavery and the challenge of
involvement in the cause of its abolition, we clearly support Throreau’s
stance.
His own civil disobedience in not
paying the poll tax (he was jailed but
quickly sprung by his aunt) is his bona
fides.
Technically, the production is
interesting. A representation of that
overnight in jail, with lighting depicting
cell bars, moves the setting to another
level, as does the roar and lights of
the train that upsets life at Walden. I’d
quibble with tacking his writing all
over the woods, as the scenic director
does—Thoreau’s intention was pre-
cisely not to impose himself on nature.
The most audience-arousing moment
comes after Thoreau persuades a farmer
to lend him an ax and then, right there
on stage, Adkins splits a log! Perfectly!
So what did you take away from
reading “Walden” senior year in high
school–his fascination with nature, his
quirky solitary life in the woods, his
social activism, his tremendous sense of
self-importance?
Or maybe how much you hated
reading this stuff when what you really
cared about was who was going to the
prom with whom?
Whatever the answer, there is much
to learn from “Return to Walden.” Just
don’t think you’re seeing the “real”
Henry David Thoreau.
Photo contributed
David Adkins stars in the Berkshire Theater Group’s one-man show “Thoreau or, Return to Walden.” with performances through
July 11.
`Film
`
Jurassic
World and
the modern
blockbuster
`Must
`
See
Mediocrity in a
diluted market
Ant-Man (July 17)
Paul Rudd stars as the
titular hero in the latest film in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, directed by Peyton Reed
(“The Break Up”).
By Shea Garner
C
olin Trevorrow’s soft reboot
of Steven Spielberg’s beloved
“Jurassic Park” franchise,
“Jurassic World,” currently
sits with a 71-percent critic aggregate
score on the popular review website
Rotten Tomatoes.
The general consensus was overwhelmingly positive, with the audience
scoring it even higher at 83-percent.
On top of that, the film netted the biggest worldwide
►► Sequel fails opening of all
to capture
time at the box
magic of
office, being
Spielberg’s
the first to acoriginal
crue more than
$500 million in
a single weekend and making one thing
abundantly clear: people wanted more
“Jurassic Park.”
The most telling part of many of
the thoughts from both critics and the
general public was the fact that many
of them referred to the film as just
“decent” or “good enough.”
Considered the “best” of the “Jurassic Park” sequels, “Jurassic World”
didn’t have much to live up to after
“The Lost World: Jurassic Park” and
“Jurassic Park 3,” but is “fine” really
what the modern audience is willing
to accept for a blockbuster these days?
“Jurassic World” was far from perfect
and, frankly, we deserved better.
What made the original “Jurassic
Park” an instant classic was its sense
of childlike wonder and sparse use of
computer generated imagery. As one of
the first major studio releases to adopt
CGI, “Jurassic Park” both set the bar
for future releases and unknowingly
opened the floodgates to the onslaught
of effects-heavy summer cinema we’re
inundated with today.
While “Jurassic Park” only featured
15 minutes of CGI dinosaurs, often
masked in the night by shadows and
rain, “Jurassic World,” at the expense
of the film, holds nothing back. Dinosaurs are featured throughout the film’s
two-hour runtime, virtually eliminating
any of the initial sense of awe before
Photo contributed
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard star in Jurassic World, the latest installment in
the Jurassic Park franchise.
the film hits its half-way point.
“Jurassic World” also parades itself
as a progressive blockbuster with a
strong female lead, but ends up shooting itself in the foot rather quickly.
Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing, the park’s operations manager, is
a focused, career-oriented character
that comes off as hollow and cold next
to Chris Pratt’s “badass” Owen Grady.
Claire can’t even remember the ages of
her two nephews and, to make it worse,
her sister reminds her that she’s running out of time to have children of her
own.
The icing on the cake is that she
spends the third act running through
the jungle in high heels — a fact highlighted by a cringe-worthy slow motion
shot at the height of the finale.
The one genuinely affecting mo-
ment in “Jurassic World” comes when
Claire and Owen comfort a dying
Apatosaurus, slain by the evil genetic
hybrid, the Indominus Rex. Here, the
actors actually interact with the animatronic dinosaur, making the moment
feel real. In all, the sense of cinematic
grandeur that swept audiences in the
summer of 1993 was totally lost in
“Jurassic Word.”
Maybe the warm critical response
was nothing more than a reaction to the
number of downright awful blockbusters that populate the summer movie
season, or maybe “Jurassic World” was
just some welcome mediocrity after
two disappointing sequels. Either way,
it’s nothing short of a disappointment.
“Jurassic World” is now playing in
local theaters.
Mission: Impossible
— Rouge Nation
(July 31)
Director Christopher
McQuarrie reteams
with his “Jack Reacher”
leading man, Tom
Cruise, for the fifth installment of the popular franchise.
South Paw (July 31)
One of the few original films of the summer, “Southpaw” stars
Jake Gyllenhaal as the
troubled boxer Billy
“The Great” Hope.
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`Weekend
`
Warrior
`First
`
draft
Homebrewer
gets big shot
K
arl Strauss Brewing Company
has let one lucky brewer in on
the good news, that they are
the winner of its annual ProAm competition.
Each year, the San Diego craft beer
pioneer invites homebrewers to submit
a beer for the opportunity to brew the
winning recipe on a commercial scale at
one of KARL’s satellite breweries and
have that brew entered into the Great
American Beer Festival’s Pro-Am contest.
“We have incredible brewers in this
city! Our homebrewing community
is one the best in the country and has
helped propel the craft beer scene in San
Diego to where it is today. We do this
competition to give back to homebrewers, who share our passion to push the
envelope on what handcrafted beer can
be,” said Paul Segura, Karl Strauss
Brewing Company brewmaster.
The gold medal winning brew
was “Black Nose,” a smoked porter
by Escondido resident Jim McCaskey,
which was a unanimous favorite by the
judging panel. “The ‘Black Nose’ porter
was a very complex beer, yet had a great
harmony of rich flavors of smoked malt,
coffee and vanilla,” said Segura.
Rounding out the top three homebrews, Jacob and Roy Bauch’s “Apricot
Saison Trois” Belgian Fruit Beer took
second place and Tim Taylor’s “Albino
Jackrabbit” American-Style Pale Ale a
close third. Interestingly, Tim Taylor has
placed in the top three in KARL’s ProAm competition for the last three years
in a row.
In total, 55 homebrewer submissions were evaluated by a trained
panel, including guest judges from the
San Diego Brewers Guild, San Diego’s
craft beer media, and KARL’s own
head brewers, brewmaster and certified
cicerones.
“Black Nose” will be brewed on a
commercial scale this July at KARL’s
downtown brewery. Local residents will
have the opportunity to taste this dynamic smoked porter when it’s on tap in
August at KARL’s downtown brewery
and at the company’s Tasting Room and
Beer Garden in Pacific Beach.
For more information about KARL’s
Pro-Am competition and recipes for
the top three winning beers, visit www.
karlstrauss.com.
T HE B ERKSHIRES O WN
W
ith the unofficial kickoff
of summer, Memorial Day,
having come and gone, summer is finally in full swing
at bars around the county.
South County
1. Gypsy Jive
If you are
yearning for
glory days
of arcade
gaming, or
just looking
for some fun while out on the town, check
out the Gypsy Jive in Great Barrington.
The latest effort from the folks at the Gypsy
Joynt, the Jive is part bar, part arcade, and
all fun. It sports two pool tables, an air
hockey table, Skeeball, a ping pong table
and about a dozen arcade machines with everything from Marvel v. Capcom to Crusin
World. They boast a healthy beer selection
with across-the-beer spectrum with local
favorites Big Elm available as well as a full
menu for both restaurant quality meals, to
tapas for the late evening munchies.
Listen at tbonedaddytrio.com
Available on itunes
and at Wood Bros. Music
5 Cheshire Rd., Pittsfield, MA
brews, making Moe’s one of the most
unique bars in Berkshire County.
Known for beer, Moe’s promises to keep
the tap list updated and encourages you
to follow Moe’s on your favorite social
media outlet for specials, events and tap list
updates.
central county
1. Thistle & Mirth
38 Bridge Street, Great Barrington
413.644.8928
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July is when the Berkshire
summer scene hits a peak
2. Michaels
44 West St, Pittsfield
413.344.4335
If you have
about $5 in
your pocket,
then head over
to Thistle and
Mirth. They
always have a wide selection of great draft
beers on tap for only about five bucks. The
whole place just has the feel of the kind of
place you can do some real drinking, (think
Moe’s in Lee but with that Pittsfield charm).
In the first year the place has been open it has
quickly caught on as a local beer drinkers’
haven and can draw a pretty good crowd on a
Friday or Saturday night. The fact that it is a
beer joint that also serves liquor shots means
that you can even bring along those non-brew
drinkers in your crowd, a nice touch.
Show off
your pipes
with a night
of karaoke at
Michals in
Stockbridge.
With hundreds of songs and artists to choose
from you’ll be sure to belt out hits from your
favorite artists at this incredibly entertaining
spot in the Berkshires. If singing isn’t your
thing, not to worry, Michaels has a fully
stocked bar with domestic and imported
selections including Berkshire Brewery
on tap. When it’s game time, watch your
team on one of their 4 HD TVs including a
new 65” to see every bone-crushing hit and
mammoth home run. Michaels also has a
full lunch and dinner menu for great dining
and a late night dining options.
434 Fenn St, Pittsfield
413.499.7337
It’s not
every day in
America that
a bar boasts so
much about
winning a bar
soccer league. The fact that Sideline does
makes me think these guys are like those
crazy English drunk fans you read about, and
I love it. I mean, they still proudly say that
the undefeated 2009 Sideline Saloonatics
Men’s Soccer team is in the Summer Soccer
League’s regular season.
north county
1. PUBLIC
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413.664.4444
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Get down with
some real bison
at the gala event
Breakfast Served All Day
Daily Specials
Vegetarian Menu
Things are set to “get
wild” at HSV fundraiser
LUNCH & DINNER
By Rick Forbes
T
his year’s gala at Hancock
Shaker Village promises to be a
bit on the wild side.
“We’re not forsaking our Shaker
heritage,” said Linda Steigleder, president
and CEO of HSV. “We’re just mixing
things up to make a great party!”
Let’s start with the basics: food and
music. The evening will feature sustainably-sourced cocktails and cuisine prepared over an open fire by Fire Roasted
Catering of Great Barrington, a specialty
caterer known for rustic, elegant food that
celebrates a connection with local and
seasonal ingredients.
And the music! Call it hot swing or
gypsy jazz, live music will be provided by
The Lucky 5 Jazz Band! The band brings
verve, high energy, and an unpredictable
impulse to the tradition of jazz from the
20s, 30s and 40s. Easy to dance to or
just to sit and listen while gazing at the
Rounds Stone Barn as the sun sets.
What would a gala be without those
rousing live and silent auctions? HSV’s
special “Cause within the Cause” will
focus on the revitalization of its Discovery Barn, a hands-on learning center for
children and families. The space is wellknown to area children, many of whom
have tried on a Shaker dress or bonnet
there, or held a baby chick. While every
other historic building at HSV has gotten
new paint and much-needed repairs in the
last year, the Discovery Barn, needs an
upgrade and a new vision.
To drive home the case for the
Discovery Barn overhaul, HSV’s “Mary
Jane,” a life-size plastic replica cow of
the real Mary Jane, a beloved dairy cow
who lived and grazed on the Shaker Farm
in the 1930s, will be un-hooked from
her plumbing in the Discovery Barn and
wheeled across the farm and into the
Event Tent to inspire the gathered partygoers.
Finally, those bison…. Peter Fay of
Mohawk Bison in Goshen, Conn., will be
at the Village all day distributing info on
wild bison, which he raises on his farm.
Fay had his 15 minutes of fame a few
years ago when a rare white bison was
born on his farm. Such a rare occurrence
is believed to be sacred among Native
Americans, some of whom traveled to
Connecticut from western states to attend the naming ceremony for the baby
animal… Bison meat is on the menu of
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117 Fenn Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201
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Store Roasted Deli Meats
Fresh Prepared Deli Salads
Party Platters, Sandwich Trays & Catering
Chef Prepared “Grab & Go” Entrees & Soups
• Tanglewood Baskets •
Taking orders for Pies, Cheesecakes, Happy Cakes & More!
Visit us online at www.MartyAndJims.com
“Where We Build Berkshires’ Best Sandwiches”
LANESBOROUGH, MA
Photo Contributed
Hancock Shaker Village will host a special Gala event featuring live music, locally sourced food and more on July 18.
the gala. Gala tickets start at $200 and are
available on the website or by calling 413443-0188, x 0, during business hours.
Reichl brings her
food knowledge
Ruth Reichl, best-selling author
and former New York Times food
critic, will talk at a brunch to benefit
Berkshire Grown on Sunday July 12.
The informal brunch will feature
locally sourced food between 11 a.m.
and noon in Sheffield, followed by
Ruth Reichl in conversation from noon
until 1 pm.
“We’re thrilled to host Ruth
Reichl,” says Barbara Zheutlin, executive director of Berkshire Grown. “She
amuses and inspires through her storytelling and humor. The brunch will be
one of the highlights of this summer in
the Berkshires–it’s not to be missed.”
Tickets are on sale at Eventbrite
online at https://www.eventbrite.
com/e/brunch-with-ruth-reichl-tickets-17048526602
Co-sponsors include The Robert
C. and Tina Sohn Foundation, Deb and
Bill Ryan, Roberta and Steven Haas
and Peter Cherneff and Hester Velmans.
Best-selling author Ruth Reichl
began writing about food in 1972. In
October, 2015, Reichl’s newest book,
“My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That
Saved My Life”,—will be published by
Random House. It chronicles the period in Reichl’s life just after Gourmet
magazine folded at the end of 2009.
That marked a turning point in the
world of food media, but no one was
more taken aback than Reichl herself,
who had been Editor-in-Chief of Gourmet Magazine from 1999 to 2009. Before that, she was the restaurant critic
of The New York Times (1993-1999)
and before that, of the Los Angeles
Times (1984-1993), where she was also
named food editor.
Her fascinating, critically acclaimed memoirs include “Tender at
the Bone”, “Comfort Me with Apples,
Garlic and Sapphires”, and “For You
Mom”, Finally, In 2014 she published a
novel called “Delicious!” featuring Billie Breslin, who has traveled far from
her home in California to take a job
at Delicious!, New York’s most iconic
food magazine. Ms. Reichl has been
honored with six James Beard Awards.
Fresh food abounds
in the Berkshires
Looking for a TasteBerkshires experience this summer?
Then here are a few stores you should
not miss. Berkshire Organics, located in
Dalton is at the heart of the Berkshire food
scene. As one of the biggest supporters
and advocates for local farmers, Berkshire
Organics is a valuable resource for food
purveyors as well as the foodies who love
them. Their market in Dalton is open seven
days a week for farm-fresh produce, locally
raised meats, fresh-baked goods, and a variety of organic and small-batch foods. They
also deliver to homes and businesses located
throughout the Berkshires.
Another great option for local food
is Guido’s Fresh Marketplace. With two
convenient locations along Route 7 in Great
Barrington and Pittsfield, Guido’s Fresh
Marketplace is a one-stop shop for all the
ingredients you could possibly need to create
a memorable feast at your next barbecue,
dinner party, picnic, or catered event
Tasty breakfast,
lunch & dinner
options, all
made in-house
and fresh.
543 South Main Street
Lanesborough, MA 01237
Hours: Tues-Thurs 7:30–2:00 • Fri 7:30-6:00 • Sat & Sun 7:00-2:00
Daily Specials
BAR & LOUNGE
391 North St. Pittsfield
(413) 344-4991
www.MethuselahBarAndLounge.com
Open Daily 4 am to 1 pm
75 North Street
Central Block
Pittsfield, MA 01201
ph: 413-236-5671
fax: 413-236-5933
www.onarollcafeandcatering.com
Breakfast Al
Breakfast All Day
Delicious &Delicious
Very Affordable
and Very
Fruit
Filled Crepes
Pancakes
Fruit
Filled• Blueberry
Crepes
• Blueberry Pan
Belgian Waffles • Egg White Omlets • Fresh Fruit
Egg White Omelets •
Eggs Benedict
Daily Specials and Alway
Full gluten-free menu
Something for everyone!
Family-friendly dining
451 Dalton Ave., Pittsfield, MA
413-448-8112
andChoices
Always Fresh
DailyDaily
SpecialsSpecials
& Always Fresh
Great
Service
•
Friendly
Atmosph
Friendly
Atmosphere
Great Service
• Friendly
Atmosphere • Wednes
Wednesday Senior Discounts
Shepherd’s Pie • Fresh
Fresh Seafood Daily •Clam
Hot SoupsStrip
• Reubens
Dinner • Sc
Homemade Spaghetti & Meatballs
Homemade Spaghett
Salads • Wraps • Meatloaf Dinner
Meatloaf Din
Now Serving Summer Cold Plates
St Luke St.
Square
• 511 East
Street
• Pittsfield
Luke Square
• 511 East
Street
• Pittsfield• (413) 499-11
(413) 499-1180 • Open 6:30am-3pm
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To place your classified ad(s), please call
YOUR CONNECTION TO BERKSHIRE County buyers & sellers
Fax: 413-528-9449 • Email: [email protected]
`help
`
wanted
Berkshire United Way seeks a Community Liaison for southern Berkshire County
to develop and foster relationships with businesses, nonprofits, and community
leaders; provide targeted communications regarding BUW mission, goals and
initiatives; lead BUW’s initiatives and activities including the recently launched
early childhood literacy project; supports and monitors organizations BUW
invests in; participates in donor prospecting and stewardship. Established South Berkshire County residency,
Bachelor’s degree with three years of experience in community organizing, development or nonprofit
service delivery required. Primary office location will be in south county. FT with excellent benefits.
Submit resume and cover letter by July 3, 2015 to BUW, 200 South Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201
or [email protected]. EOE
DRIVERS
NOW HIRING
Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent of
Schools/School Committee Secretary:
Successful candidate must have
• Experience in a professional office setting
• Working knowledge of computer software programs, including
Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, and Power Point
• Ability to become proficient in other education-specific software programs
• Ability to work with the public • Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work independently • Ability to maintain confidentiality
Prior experience in public school setting preferred. 12-month, 8 hours per day position.
Salary dependent upon experience. Excellent benefits provided. Start date: mid-October, 2015.
Submit letter of interest/resume to:
David Hastings, Superintendent
Southern Berkshire Regional School District, P.O. Box 339, Sheffield, MA 01257
on or before July 13, 2015.
Equal Opportunity Employer
76 North Street, Pittsfield, MA 1201
Apply directly online at
www.unitedpersonnel.com
or call 413-449-5050 for more information.
SALES REPS
SALES REPRESENTATIVES
Oak
Oak
N’ Spruce
is currently
seeking
money
N’
Spruce
Resort is a Resorts
Vacation Ownership
Company
providingpositive
quality vacation
experiences
motivated Sales
reps with
excellent
for families
throughout
the world.people skills.
INCREDIBLE CAREER OPPORTUNITY!
Job Title: Sales Representative
SALES REPS
BRING US YOUR TALENTS AND WE WILL OFFER YOU:
Position:
Full Time
Paid Training
• Earnings
of $50-$100k
Vision, Medical and Dental • 401k Benefits
Oak
Spruce
Resorts
currently
seeking
positive
money
WeN’
see
300-500
clientsiseach
week and
growing!
No cold
calling…
Requirements: The ideal Sales Representative is an excellent communicator with a
No phone
calls…and
the best
part is people
our clients
come to us!
Sales
reps
with
excellent
skills.
hospitality motivated
and customer
service
mindset.
You must be
self-motivated,
confident,
Experience
preferred
but
not
required.
We
offer
tried
and
proven
and results-oriented
to
boost
the
performance
of
our
sales
team.
INCREDIBLE CAREER OPPORTUNITY!
methods that can CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
Director of Food Services:
for the Southern Berkshire Regional School District, serving 770 students.
Education/Experience: The successful candidate should have one of the following:
• A Bachelor’s Degree; • An Associate’s Degree in Nutrition, Business, or related field with public
school food experience; or • A minimum of three years of public school food experience.
Experience/Knowledge: The successful candidate should have experience or familiarity with:
• Supply ordering and inventory management • “My School Bucks” software
• Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Reporting Requirements
• Reimbursemets claims processes
• Federal and State Nutrition Requirements • DESE Virtual Gateway
• Cash Reconciliation and Profit and Loss Reporting
Food safety training certification is also required
Work Year: 220 Days • Annual Salary Range $45,000-$55,000 • Start Date: August 1, 2015
Submit letter of interest/resume to:
Bruce Turner, Business Administrator
Southern Berkshire Regional School District, P.O. Box 339, Sheffield, MA 01257
on or before July 15, 2015.
The ideal
Sales
Representative
will also
have:
BRING
US
YOUR TALENTS
AND
WE WILL OFFER YOU:
Located in South Lee, Massachusetts the Oak N’ Spruce Resort
Paid Training • Earnings of $50-$100k
• Previous experience in sales, marketing,boasts basketball, mini golf, indoor and
• Professional
demeanor
image
Vision,
Medical and Dental
• 401k
Benefits
outdoor
pools,
fitness and
center,
movie
customer service
or communications
• Possession of a four door vehicle and
(preferred)
tanning
beds,
video
arcade
room,
We see 300-500 clients theater,
each week
and
growing!
No cold
valid
state
driver’s
license
withcalling…
proof
of
• Previous experience in hospitality or similar
shuffleboard
so much
insurance
(required)
No phone calls…and the best
part is
our and
clients
come more!
to us!
industry (preferred)
• Ability to work Wednesday through
• Confidence
in
giving
presentations
The
only
thing
missing
is…YOU!
Experience preferred but not required.
Sunday We offer tried and proven
• Outgoing and approachable personality
methods
can CHANGE
YOUR LIFE!
Please
call that
Kenneth
Utz at: 413-464-2533
to schedule
an on
site interview.
Located in South Lee,
Massachusetts
the receive:
Oak
N’ Spruce
Resort
Sales
Representatives
boasts
basketball,
mini
golf,
and
We
are
located
at:
• Competitive commissioned-basedindoor
pay structure
fitnessLee,
center,
190outdoor
Meadow
St. | South
MA movie
01260
• Monthly
bonus pools,
potential
tanning
beds, video arcade
room,
Fax
resume
to:
413-243-2356
to:
•theater,
Energetic,
fun
work
environment or email
shuffleboard and
so much
more!
[email protected]
| Drug
Screening
• Training and growth opportunities
The only
thing
is…YOU!
• Medical, Dental,
Vision,
andmissing
Life Insurance
Please call Kenneth Utz at: 413-464-2533
To apply please
go to an on site interview.
to schedule
www.silverleafresorts.com
We are located at:
and190
click
on careers.
Meadow
St. | South Lee, MA 01260
Or
call
Kelly to:
Kuhn
at
Fax
resume
413-243-2356
or email to:
413-717-8277 to arrange
an interview.
[email protected]
| Drug
Screening
Equal Opportunity Employer
Tom Casey
15th of the month before that month’s issue
• Submitting your ad
EMAIL: [email protected]
FAX: Fax copy to 413-528-9449
MAIL: P.O. Box 868, Great Barrington, MA 01230
COMMUNITY LIAISON
$5,000 Sign-On Bonus! Local-Home Nightly! Albany,
NY Flatbed! Great Pay, Benefits! CDL-A, 1yr. Exp. Req.
Estension Logistics • Apply: www.goelc.com • 1-855-420-2247
Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival took over MASS MoCA in North Adams from June 26 to 28. Along with Jeff Tweedy and Co. (top left) Mac DeMarco, Real Estate and Speedy Ortiz performed.
• Deadlines
`real
`
estate
wheeler & taylor realty company
GARDEN HOME FOR SALE
new marlborough
$192,000
Multi family. #00865
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
housatonic
$188,000
#00778
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
sheffield
$120,000
#00018
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
sheffield
$217,000
#00519
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
sheffield
$109,000
Commercial #00324
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
mill river
Commercial. #0024
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
great barrington
$385,000
Commercial #00853
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
sheffield
$279,000
#00026
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
barnbrook realty
GREAT BARRINGTON $535,000
HOW GREAT PEOPLE GET TO WORK
SPRINGFIELD
|
PITTSFIELD
|
EASTHAMPTION
• Country Colonial on 4 acres • Pristine condition
• 3 bedrooms, 3 baths • Large screened porch • Gardens
• New mechanicals • Central AC • 4-car garage, garden shed
egremont
$339,000
MLS #211479
Barnbrook Realty
413-528-4423
barnbrookrealty.com
new marlborough
$1,495,000
MLS #211338
Barnbrook Realty
413-528-4423
barnbrookrealty.com
lee
$649,000
MLS #210893
Barnbrook Realty
413-528-4423
barnbrookrealty.com
wm. brockman real estate
StoneHouseProperties.com
40 Railroad Street • Great Barrington, MA
(413) 528-4211
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new marlborough
$490,000
MLS #211475
Barnbrook Realty
413-528-4423
barnbrookrealty.com
Tyringham
$1,500,000
Colonial-era farm
Wm. Brockman Real Estate
413-528-4859
monterey
$310,000
2008 private home
413-528-4859
great barrington
$729,000
Beautiful contemporary
413-528-4859
monterey
$275,000
Antique colonial
413-528-4859
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Mattress Sale
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King Set
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King Set
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Backsense
Buckingham
Twin Set
$329
Full Set
$399
Queen Set
$449
King Set
$699
$599
Full Set
Queen Set
King Set
Kensington Euro
Twin Set
MemoryTouch
$399
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Full Set
$449
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$499
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$599
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$699
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$449
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$499
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$549
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$679
Queen Set
$599
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$699
King Set
$899
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$899
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$1099
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$1649
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$999
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bedding • furniture
home entertainment
Berkshire Mall, Lanesboro, MA • 413-445-8800
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