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Reviving the NAACP
On April 26, Roberta McCulloch-Dews recalls a conversation with community leaders who hope to rekindle a local chapter of the advocacy group. In 1980, the average cost of a house was $69,000; the...
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A witness from Sudan
Darius Jonathan, Professor of Arabic, recalls his birthplace in Roberta McCulloch-Dews’ On the Bridge, May 31. Every so often the conflict in Darfur takes center stage in the news cycle. Then the...
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Couple creates a hub of Polish community
Roberta McCulloch-Dews created this profile for the July 12, 2012 Berkshires Week GREAT BARRINGTON – A nonstop flow of traffic sweeps through State Road in Great Barrington, a busy corridor lined with...
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Saidiya Hartman finds her family roots
Roberta McCulloch-Dews created this profile for the Aug. 16 Berkshires Week MONTEREY – On one of her visits to the local transfer station in the town of Monterey, Saidiya Hartman had a conversation...
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Lost and found in translation by Katherine Abbott
When I was in graduate school, several of my friends in the Berkshires decided to read the Quran. Some of us were Jewish, some atheist, at least one a neopagan, and some, like me, raised in one degree...
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Chief Wilcox, Sherry White and Barbara Allen honor Mohican life in Stockbridge
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, this On the Bridge column honors Mohican life in the Berkshires, and especially in the present. The Associated Press would call November ‘American Indian...
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Mohicans and the Berkshires
It’s amazing how many people come into the museum and think the tribe doesn’t exist, because of James Fennimore Cooper and ‘The Last Mohican,’” said Barbara Allen, Curator of the Stockbridge Historical...
View ArticleKori Alston’s spoken word
Kori Alston, an actor and poet from Housatonic, has shared some of his work with us. I heard Kori read this poem at a performance this summer, and he held the whole audience silent. As he said last...
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Kori Alston recalls ‘Henry V’ at Shakespeare & Company
Kori Alston of Housatonic spent last summer getting to know Henry V, the 15th-century king of England — as Shakespeare saw him. He found the relationship soul-satisfying. Kori Alston performs his own...
View ArticleMexican midwinter holidays
In Mexico, the Christmas season is only half over. On Feb. 2, while the Berkshires watches for an early-rising groundhog, families in Mexico will gather to celebrate the end of the winter holidays....
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