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The fall season is known for deals on bicycles and furniture, and shoppers this year will find a number of opportunities in the Berkshires. Columnist Martin J. Lecker shares some
It’s lovely to ride down the region's country roads on a bicycle while beautiful scenery unfolds before you—until you’re faced with a daunting incline. No worries: With a push of a button, you make the ascent with no more effort than if you were on flat ground, thanks to the technology in the e-bike rented or bought from Berkshire Bike & Board, a staple of the Berkshires cycling scene whose newest location opens in Hudson this summer.
Photos by Bill Wright Railroad Street is a neat thoroughfare off Main Street that houses a number of restaurants and retail businesses like Baba Louie’s Sourdough Pizza and Karen Allen Fiber Arts. This year—here, there, and everywhere—was really, really bad, but in Great Barrington a surprising sentiment endures: optimism. "We want the Berkshires to remain the Berkshires," says Betsy Andrus, executive director of the Southern Berkshires Chambe...