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It’s been a year since the quarantine began and perhaps your children are distance learning at home and it’s winter and the windows are closed and there are no fresh fragrant flowers from the garden, no pine-scented holiday decorations.
Photo by Hunter O. Lyle
Here’s a perfect indoor winter challenge to set for yourself: See who can come up with the most examples of famous books in which characters knit.
Rule one: Yes, we know that all writers are “knitting a story together” so no, you can’t claim every tale every written and thus win the prize.
Sonnet 65
William Shakespeare
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o’ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Boondocks Film Society will show the 1969 James Bond film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” starring George Lazenby as Bond and Diana Rigg as the Bond Girl who becomes his wife, on Jan. 30.
Most readers of this newspaper are sufficiently seasoned that they have chosen a favorite James Bond — either Roger Moore or Sean Connery. Perhaps some younger readers might throw in a vote for Daniel Craig or Pierce Brosnan.
If you know anything about Robert Levinstein and Alan M-L Wager, the heads of the Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Conn., then you know that they are not only Put On a Show Kind of Guys, but they’re also Put on a Party Kind of Guys.
Writer, civil rights activist, lawyer, educator and Great Barrington resident James Weldon Johnson will be the subject of an online talk on Feb. 5. Photo from State Library and Archives of Florida
In celebration of Black History Month, the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire (CDCSB) will present a lecture that examines the life — and the historic home in Great Barrington, Mass. — of James Weldon Johnson on Friday, Feb. 5.
Daryl Byrne of Norfolk, Conn., is leading hikes to some of the most scenic peaks in the region this winter, including this one on the Mattatuck Trail. Photo courtesy Daryl Byrne
As we come to the end of almost a full year in quarantine, with concerns that the new COVID-19 variant is even more contagious than the original, it seems likely that we will not be going to the gym anytime soon.
Simon Winchester talks about his new book, “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World,” in a virtual conversation with Becky Thornton, on Jan. 20, hosted by Oblong. Photo by Andrew Blechman, The Berkshire Edge
Simon Winchester was an adventure traveler, a young Brit in the 1960s who started small by hitchhiking around North America and then dove deeper by joining a six-man sledding expedition in an uncharted section of the East Greenland ice cap.
On the evening before the presidential inauguration, the Shakespeare & Company theater group in Lenox, Mass., will once again air a taped performance of the play “Martha Mitchell Calling,” by Berkshires resident Jodi Rothe and starring Annette Miller as the wife of the attorney general and Kale Brown as John Mitchell.
Photo courtesy Wassaic Project
Natalie Baxter uses needle, thread and wit to make statements about the world around her in fabric.
She will give an online talk about her work, hosted by the Wassaic Project, in Wassaic, N.Y,. on Friday, Jan. 15, at 5 p.m., with time for questions from participants.
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