Compass A&E

The D. M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, Conn., presents a new show of paintings of female figures by three renowned area artists: Robert Cronin of Falls Village, Conn., Sam Posey of Sharon, Conn., and Robert Andrew Parker of  Cornwall, Conn.

The fourth annual Clay Way Studio Tour of artists who do ceramics and pottery in the Tri-state region will be held  on the weekend of Oct. 17 and 18. 

As always, some artists will show their work in the studios of other artists, so that there will be a total of 15 artists and nine studios in two states. 

This weekend and every weekend until Election Day (Nov. 3), the online ReadIn of “Black Reconstruction in America” by W.E.B. Du Bois continues. 

There are excellent orchards nearby where you can pick fruit for yourself or buy it pre-picked. Windy Hill Farm in Great Barrington, Mass., has five varieties of apple on offer now and will make other varieties available (including some heirlooms) as they hit their peak.

Ben Wolff has continued the tradition of exquisite and understated pottery and “horticultureware” that was begun by his father, Guy Wolff. 

In a world where you can’t go to a theater to see films or plays, now there is another option: Drive-ins. The Four Brothers Drive-In Theatre in Amenia, N.Y., was a regional pioneer, and continues to show first-run and classic films. 

The season changes. A cold wind chills the beach.

The long lines of it grow longer, emptier,

A darkness gathers though it does not fall

And the whiteness grows less vivid on the wall.

The man who is walking turns blankly on the sand.

It’s a question that’s almost theological: Was the man who wrote the greatest plays in the English language actually William Shakespeare, or was it someone else?