Art Close to Home, in partnership with Berkshire Natural Resources Council and the Berkshire Museum, announces the opening of their second season with an outdoor visual art and soundscape installation
Olivia Shotton
Peter Hooper, chairman of HCC, said: “This will also be the first opportunity to welcome Olivia Shotton, the choir’s new conductor. The first concert on October 9 will feature the Vivaldi Gloria, supported by similarly joyous early and not-so-early music and on December 5 the choir will be celebrating Advent and Christmas.
“The choir has been working with Olivia online since January (in English, French, German, Latin and Swedish) and is looking forward to resuming in person rehearsals, very shortly – socially distanced, of course. Olivia’s appointment was delayed by the pandemic for almost a year and Jenny Hansell, who had hoped to step down last year having conducted the choir for ten very successful years, very generously agreed to continue until a new conductor could be appointed.
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Area trusts join forces for Give Back to the Land Day
Community members are invited to visit www.givebacktotheland.org by midnight Thursday to learn about the work of local land trusts.
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust members lead a hike during the opening day of the Eagle Reserve Conservation Area in Royalston in 2016. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST, NORM EGGERT PHOTOGRAPHY
Mount Grace Land Trust conserved this pasture in Northfield in 2018. RECORDER STAFF/PAUL FRANZ
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This Earth Day, five environmental organizations in Western and Central Massachusetts are joining forces for the second annual Give Back to the Land Day,” a 24-hour online event Thursday, April 22, raising funds for regional land trusts that work to conserve trails, forests, farms, and waterways in Massachusetts.
Barbara J. Erickson, the president and CEO of the Trustees of Reservations, which manages 14 properties in Berkshire County, died Jan. 15 after a four-year battle with a rare form of appendix cancer. She was 42.
Originally from Wyoming, Erickson led the countryâs oldest land trust since 2012. She was the organizationâs fourth president, and first woman, to lead the nonprofit since its founding in 1891.
Erickson, who lived in Newton and Chatham, did not have a direct connection to the Berkshires. But those who knew her locally said she was passionate about her job and helped improve the properties that the Trustees managed in Berkshire County, particularly Naumkeag in Stockbridge.