In 2009, after reading Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, lifelong theatre artist and educator Kristen van Ginhoven had a lightbulb moment. What if
The week before Grace Clark was scheduled to fly to China last summer to take a job teaching English for a year she received a phone call from the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
I first came to the Berkshires from Ethiopia in the fall of 2010 to pursue a high-quality education. After spending four years as an international student at Williams College in picturesque Williamstown, I graduated
How do you make living and working in the Berkshires viable and sustainable? Be creative. The demographics and economy of the county are changing. As the traditional models of manufacturing and 9-to-5 work days fade
Jonathan Butler grew up in Adams, graduated from Hoosac Valley High School, attended college in New Hampshire, and began his professional career in Boston. It was a well-worn path for millennials, those between the ages
Last year, Barrington Stage received $10,000 from Mass Humanities to host a two-day symposium about race and bias, centered around the play "American Son," about an interracial couple confronting the country's racial divide. The
Paloma Suarez has been in the U.S. for 10 years, the past five working at Community Health Programs in Great Barrington for the past five. A native of Santiago, Dominican Republic, Suarez, 27, was one
Community Health Programs has opened its renovated offices on the North Adams Campus of Berkshire Medical Center and hopes to add new doctors to its North County practice. Members of 1Berkshire and the North Adams
Kelli Kozak, assistant vice president and community engagement officer for MountainOne, gave Northern Berkshire Fall Foliage Parade director Danielle Thomas of 1Berkshire a check for $3,000 in support of the annual parade. The presentation
As 1Berkshire evolves and builds community growth in so many ways, I was ecstatic when I attended their recent Entrepreneurial MeetUp at Six Depot, encountered Lindsey, and learned that she is a fellow Lenox resident. I thought