Compass A&E

Area history and arts organizations are beginning to record the ways the coronavirus is changing our world. 

In these days of self-distancing — when buyers can’t visit art galleries or studios — one Sharon, Conn., artist has found a unique way to bring attention to his work.

Author Simon Winchester, a Berkshire County resident, writes about the Mississippi and how it came to be America’s second largest river system, in a new book of work by photographer David Freese, called “Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf,” due out in June.

One of the highlights of the Northwest Corner art season in Connecticut is the Rose Algrant Show, which has been held since 1959 and has been hosted in recent years at the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, Conn.

The venerable Music Mountain chamber concert venue, on Music Mountain in Falls Village, Conn., has announced that it will cancel its summer schedule of classical music, jazz and more due to COVID-19 concerns.

This is the first time since Music Mountain was created 91 years ago that a season has been canceled.

A part from ducking out to fish when the weather allows I’m stuck at home (in Salisbury, Conn., in my case) like everybody else. Here are some of the exciting activities I do to stave off boredom.

If you’ve been following the news carefully, you will have noticed that — in tandem with essential updates on COVID-19 — many important news organizations have been reporting on the worldwide shortage of jigsaw puzzles.

Desperate times lead to desperate women doing things in desperation to their hair.

For some women, such as those who have long hair and those who don’t color their hair because it’s gray, these times are not quite as desperate. 

But a large percentage of our Tri-state region female (and perhaps male) population has: