Community Health Programs

Bryan Ayars CEO of Community Health Programs,  a non-profit health provider, discusses services offered to families in the Pittsfield, Lee, and Great Barrington...

Kevin O’Hara

Pittsfield-based author Kevin O’Hara talks about the excitement of being last year’s JFK Winner, what it was like to lead the Holyoke Parade in front of 430,000 people, and what has come out of the award. He will also talk a little about this year’s...

10×10 Festival

Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director of Barrington Stage Company; Megan Whilden, Director of Cultural Development, City of Pittsfield; Lesley Ann Beck, Director of communications, Berkshire Museum and Thomas Attila Lewis, comedian and Comedy Show producer. 10×10...

End of the World

The Mayan calendar ends this Friday December 21st, and many say with it the entire world. But as folklorist and author Joe Durwin explains, they are not the first to predict the end of the world – and in fact one man from Pittsfield did so 170 years ago with...

First Collegiate Baseball Game

Pittsfield was the home of the first recorded collegiate baseball game between Amherst and Williams College.  Local writer Derek Gentile talks about what that first game was like back in...

Artsbucks

Artsbucks is a new creative economy stimulus being used in the city of Pittsfield. For it, patrons get a rebate on the locally-made art that they buy. What are the nuts and bolts of this program and can it be...

What Does It Take For a Woman to Become a Leader?

“A Seat at the Table” is a documentary film created by six students from Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield. The students speak with Carrie Saldo about some of the questions they explored including: What does it take for a woman to become a leader? Is...

Art in Small Cities

Jonathan Secor, Director of Special Programs at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Megan Whilden, Pittsfield’s Director of Cultural Developmen,  discuss the many free happenings and arts-related programs taking place in both cities this...

Lungs at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield

In a time of global anxiety and political unrest, a young couple contemplates having a child. If they over think it, they’ll never do it. But if they rush, it could be a disaster. What will be the first to destruct – the planet or the relationship? This is the central...

Mt Greylock

At 3,491 feet, Mount Greylock is the highest point in Massachusetts. Rising above the surrounding Berkshire landscape, dramatic views of 60-90 miles distant may be seen. It became Massachusetts’ first wilderness state park, acquired by the Commonwealth in 1898,...