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Jennifer Trainer Thompson, outgoing president and CEO of Hancock Shaker Village, looks back on the last six years at its helm. She departs on Sept. 16, with a goal of

Hancock Shaker Villages Back Porch Music series began during the pandemic as a solution that allowed music to continue at the village. The outdoor concerts are now a popular summer

Hancock Shaker Village is a landmark destination with 20 historic Shaker buildings, and thousands of Shaker artifacts. On the National Historic Register, it is the most comprehensively interpreted Shaker site in the world, and the oldest working farm in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. The 20th Anniversary of Hancock Shaker Village’s Baby Animals Festival opens tomorrow - Saturday, April 16. I went there earlier this week and met with Director and CEO Jennifer Trainer Thompson and Live...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   Im not a big outdoors person. And Im not really into hiking, unless theres something promising at the end of the trail — an extraordinary view, a waterfall, a really old cemetery or the remnants of a historical site, such as the "Stairs to Nowhere" in Chesterfield, N.H. (otherwise known as Madame Sherri’s castle ruins).  An invitation, with the promise of touring the remnants of Hancock Shaker Villages South Family farm site, coaxe...

PITTSFIELD — A new spread in Conde Nast Traveler seeks to explain, yet again, the Berkshires’ appeal to well-heeled weekenders. “It’s the rich cross-history of bohemia and money, of creatives and cultural titans, that makes the Berkshires more than an escape from the city,” the authors write in the magazine’s current issue. “It’s an escape to one of the liveliest and most vital artistic hubs in the USA. … It’s country living with a symphony orch...