It wasn’t a vacation day–as the title might seem to imply — but your Connecting Point crew recently spent a day in Berkshire County. We taped a half-dozen interviews with some of the people who make that region such a fascinating and vital part of the WGBY viewing area.
We were hosted by our friends at Hancock Shaker Village, as our great production team — Keith Clark, Dave Fraser, Mark Langevin and John McGibbon — turned a room in the “Red Brick Dwelling” into a TV studio for the day. We didn’t spot any during our visit — but Hancock Shaker Village curator Lesley Herzberg tells us that there have been many reports through the years of people seeing spirits of past residents in that building. You can hear more about that from Lesley in an interview she taped with us for our series.
Aliz Koletas and I also spoke with an Editor of the Berkshire Eagle, representatives of local businesses and the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, Pittsfield’s Mayor and the city Director of Cultural Development and more to get a picture of what it’s really like to live and work every day in a place that so many people think of mainly as a vacation destination when it is obviosuly so much more than that.
Our Berkshire County stories start hitting the air on Connecting Point on Thursday, March 27 and continue on into April. We hope you’ll tune in to Connecting Point or check them out here on the website. No matter how much you may already know about the Berkshires — I think you’ll still get some interesting new information about this great part of Massachusetts!
