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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

Winchester Wonders: Who Really Owns the Land?

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. 


Brittany Hrabcsak’s cookie recreation of Whoville from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” won first prize in the Kent, Conn., Gingerbread Festival. Photo by Melissa Roth Chernisk

Gingerbread ‘House Proud’ in Kent and Salisbury, Conn.

In just nine years, the Kent Gingerbread Festival in Kent, Conn., has gone from being just fun to being quite a big deal. It’s one of the biggest gingerbread festivals in the region and has become a big draw to town, even in years when there’s a pandemic quarantine.

Sharon’s Alethea Platt, an Artist and a Fierce Advocate for Women

The dozens of viewers who attended the December talk on the life and art of Sharon, Conn., summer artist-resident Alethea Hill Platt came away with a more informed appreciation of this late 19th- and early 20th-century woman, who earned every inch of her success as an artist while exercising her fierce independence as a woman of her times.


Ballet Collective’s performance of “The Nutcracker” inside and on the grounds of the historic Wethersfield estate in Amenia, N.Y., can be seen “virtually” until Dec. 26. Photo by charlotte Rare​

‘The Nutcracker,’ Performed Live In and Around Wethersfield

For many of us, the holiday season isn’t complete without watching or listening to Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.”

While it’s comforting to watch a favorite older version (such as the New York City Baller production featuring a young Macaulay Culkin, from 1993), it’s of course wonderful to watch a new version of this old favorite. 

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