GREENFIELD The Franklin County Chamber of Commerce used its first monthly breakfast of 2023 to tout the attributes of living in small towns and offer a prelude to “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit slated to.
After successful fall season, Makers and Art Market in Shelburne Falls returns for spring event
Artist Jeremy Sinkus pictured in his glasswork studio in The Mill at Shelburne Falls. Contributed Photo/Ben Barnhart
Sculptural gourd and watercolor artist Emily Gopen works in her studio in The Mill at Shelburne Falls. Contributed Photo/Ben Barnhart
Sculptural gourd and watercolor artist Emily Gopen works in her studio in The Mill at Shelburne Falls. Contributed Photo/Ben Barnhart
Staff Report
Published: 5/7/2021 3:20:20 PM
SHELBURNE FALLS After a successful fall 2020 season, the outdoor Makers and Art Market located at The Mill at Shelburne Falls will return on Saturday, May 15.
Life Outdoors: Four hundredth column
David Mark
My first column was submitted Nov. 2, 2009, published in the Beacon-Villager on Nov. 12, 2009. As of May 2021, the count is 400 columns. That’s not including some 40 somewhat revised repeats. The running total is roughly 300,000 words and 350 photographs. The first four columns, all published in 2009, were titled Stone Walls, Winter Bicycling, A River Runs Through it and Robins in Winter. Those were what had been submitted as examples for a column proposed to the editor of the paper, at that time Brian Nanos, to wit, a column to be named Life Outdoors, with a scope that included Maynard and Stow history, observations on nature and descriptions of outdoor recreational opportunities. The default byline at the end of each column was Mark has an indoor job, but prefers to be outdoors. Brian s reply to the proposal was Yes, but we can t pay you.