LENOX — Federal dollars continue to flow to Berkshire cultural groups despite threatened cuts, helping to stoke the region’s main economic engine: the creative economy.
It’s showtime for big players in that segment right now, as summer tourism kicks in. Tens of thousands of visitors will flock to local performing arts venues, spurring commercial activity up and down Berkshire County.
Offering an early thanksgiving, arts leaders gathered Thursday in Lenox to applaud the arrival of new National Endowment for the Arts grants worth $328,000 to eight county groups and municipalities. Read more about federal dollars coming to the Berkshires.>>