12 January 2021 04:26PM
by North Chatham Free Library
“The Price of Freedom: Some Pay More Than Others” on Sunday January 17 at 3PM through Zoom at the North Chatham Free Library with July Kabat and Judy Wright.
This reading and conversation with two authors promises to make history more real. Judy Wright and Julie…
11 January 2021 06:35PM
by Claverack Library
January 26, 2021
February 2, 9, 16, 23, 2021
6:30 pm via Zoom
To register: Email info@claveracklibrary.org or call 518-851-7120
Upon registration a Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the event.
The first week participants will be asked to bring one page of writing to…
11 January 2021 06:28PM
by Claverack Library
Fridays @ 10:00 am
Join Ms Thea and Special Guests each week for Story Time fun!
Jan. 15th the featured letter is “B”
Email: info@claveracklibrary.org to register
Please visit our website at www.claveracklibrary.org to download pdf’s of the letter “B”and a cute Bear.
11 January 2021 06:16PM
by Claverack Library
Book and Movie Discussion
Sunday, January 17, 2021 | 5:00 pm via Zoom
Please join us on Sunday, January 17, 2021 at 5:00 pm to discuss the 1983 novel Ironweed by William Kennedy. It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in…
11 January 2021 11:28AM
by Susanna O'Brien
I have just finished a lovely four-mile hike when my phone rings.
“Matty was just tested,” his house mother at the Anderson Center for Autism says, a sense of urgency in her voice. “He’s positive, Sue. For Covid.”
I can’t quite believe what I’m hearing. I had…
10 January 2021 04:02PM
by Ralph Gardner Jr.
I wrote most of this commentary on Wednesday morning before the Capitol was stormed. Such cataclysmic events have a way of dividing life into before and after. But after rereading it I think it still applies.
My wife didn’t understand my sense of wonder when I…
7 January 2021 03:36PM
by Gina Hyams

www.spencertownacademy.org
Spencertown, New York—Spencertown Academy Arts Center announces the “Community Writes” winter writing contest. Selected fiction and non-fiction pieces will be published on the Academy website in March. The deadline for submissions is February 28.
“Our popular writing ‘contest’ is back. It is a competition only…
5 January 2021 07:14AM
by Jennifer Browdy
5 January 2021 07:11AM
by Jennifer Browdy
30 December 2020 05:55PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa
bloomcreativity.weebly.com/creatives-anonymous.html
CREATIVES ANONYMOUS Wellness Group
Being an artist can be tough during the best of times; Covid amplifies those challenges. Whether you have lost your main source of income, are struggling to work from home with a family, are feeling creatively blocked or are just plain tired…
30 December 2020 05:55PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa
bloomcreativity.weebly.com/creatives-anonymous.html
CREATIVES ANONYMOUS Wellness Group
Being an artist can be tough during the best of times; Covid amplifies those challenges. Whether you have lost your main source of income, are struggling to work from home with a family, are feeling creatively blocked or are just plain tired…
30 December 2020 05:55PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa
bloomcreativity.weebly.com/creatives-anonymous.html
CREATIVES ANONYMOUS Wellness Group
Being an artist can be tough during the best of times; Covid amplifies those challenges. Whether you have lost your main source of income, are struggling to work from home with a family, are feeling creatively blocked or are just plain tired…
30 December 2020 05:55PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa
bloomcreativity.weebly.com/creatives-anonymous.html
CREATIVES ANONYMOUS Wellness Group
Being an artist can be tough during the best of times; Covid amplifies those challenges. Whether you have lost your main source of income, are struggling to work from home with a family, are feeling creatively blocked or are just plain tired…
30 December 2020 05:55PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa
bloomcreativity.weebly.com/creatives-anonymous.html
CREATIVES ANONYMOUS Wellness Group
Being an artist can be tough during the best of times; Covid amplifies those challenges. Whether you have lost your main source of income, are struggling to work from home with a family, are feeling creatively blocked or are just plain tired…
30 December 2020 05:55PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa
bloomcreativity.weebly.com/creatives-anonymous.html
CREATIVES ANONYMOUS Wellness Group
Being an artist can be tough during the best of times; Covid amplifies those challenges. Whether you have lost your main source of income, are struggling to work from home with a family, are feeling creatively blocked or are just plain tired…
30 December 2020 05:55PM
from MASS MoCA (posted by Maizy Broderick Scarpa)
bloomcreativity.weebly.com/creatives-anonymous.html
CREATIVES ANONYMOUS Wellness Group
Being an artist can be tough during the best of times; Covid amplifies those challenges. Whether you have lost your main source of income, are struggling to work from home with a family, are feeling creatively blocked or are just plain tired…
29 December 2020 11:17AM
by Claverack Library
Book and Movie Discussion
Sunday, January 17, 2021 | 5:00 pm via Zoom
Visit our website at www.claveracklibrary.org for login details
Please join us on Sunday, January 17, 2021 at 5:00 pm to discuss the 1983 novel Ironweed by William Kennedy. It received the 1984 Pulitzer…
27 December 2020 09:01PM
by Ralph Gardner Jr.
I pride myself on not being taken by surprise – physically, emotionally, existentially. You may forfeit some of life’s magic in the process. But the tendency also offers benefits during a pandemic when advance preparation provides you the opportunity to get a jump on appliances…
26 December 2020 08:15PM
by Emily Sachar
I’m not sure what I was expecting.
When your future son-in-law, a decorated fighter pilot, says he’d like to go on an outing to bond, do you imagine learning to needlepoint? Decorating gingerbread houses? Weeding a garden? I suppose not.
All the same, I did not know…
26 December 2020 08:05PM
by The Rural We / Rural Intelligence (posted by Maizy Broderick Scarpa)

www.ruralintelligence.com/community/the-rural-we-maizy-broderick-scarpa
Unleashing creativity and educating artists are Maizy Broderick Scarpa’s twin goals in working with creative people. She herself is a playwright, theater director and performer who grew up in the Berkshires. Just prior to the pandemic, she launched Bloom Creativity, dedicated to cultivating craft and…
26 December 2020 08:05PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa

www.ruralintelligence.com/community/the-rural-we-maizy-broderick-scarpa
Unleashing creativity and educating artists are Maizy Broderick Scarpa’s twin goals in working with creative people. She herself is a playwright, theater director and performer who grew up in the Berkshires. Just prior to the pandemic, she launched Bloom Creativity, dedicated to cultivating craft and…
26 December 2020 08:05PM
from mass.gov (posted by Maizy Broderick Scarpa)

www.ruralintelligence.com/community/the-rural-we-maizy-broderick-scarpa
Unleashing creativity and educating artists are Maizy Broderick Scarpa’s twin goals in working with creative people. She herself is a playwright, theater director and performer who grew up in the Berkshires. Just prior to the pandemic, she launched Bloom Creativity, dedicated to cultivating craft and…
26 December 2020 08:05PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa

www.ruralintelligence.com/community/the-rural-we-maizy-broderick-scarpa
Unleashing creativity and educating artists are Maizy Broderick Scarpa’s twin goals in working with creative people. She herself is a playwright, theater director and performer who grew up in the Berkshires. Just prior to the pandemic, she launched Bloom Creativity, dedicated to cultivating craft and…
26 December 2020 08:05PM
from Governor Charlie Baker's Press Office (posted by Maizy Broderick Scarpa)

www.ruralintelligence.com/community/the-rural-we-maizy-broderick-scarpa
Unleashing creativity and educating artists are Maizy Broderick Scarpa’s twin goals in working with creative people. She herself is a playwright, theater director and performer who grew up in the Berkshires. Just prior to the pandemic, she launched Bloom Creativity, dedicated to cultivating craft and…
26 December 2020 08:05PM
by Maizy Broderick Scarpa

www.ruralintelligence.com/community/the-rural-we-maizy-broderick-scarpa
Unleashing creativity and educating artists are Maizy Broderick Scarpa’s twin goals in working with creative people. She herself is a playwright, theater director and performer who grew up in the Berkshires. Just prior to the pandemic, she launched Bloom Creativity, dedicated to cultivating craft and…