Best of Connecting Point: Producers’ Picks

Best of Connecting Point: Producers’ Picks

Ovation Guitars After it was sold and closed in 2014, many thought that it was the end of the line for US production of Ovation Guitars in CT, which had been in New Hartford for 47 years, and production of all Ovation guitars was sent overseas to Asia. However, after...
Off the Beaten Path: Housatonic

Off the Beaten Path: Housatonic

Nestled in the shadow of the Berkshire town of Great Barrington lies the small village of Housatonic, along the river of the same name. A former bustling mill town, these days Housatonic is described by some residents as “the land that time forgot,” a throwback to a...
Making It Here: Berkshire Stringed Instruments

Making It Here: Berkshire Stringed Instruments

Nick Lenski is passionate about guitars – so much so that he builds his own, oftentimes out of local wood sourced in the forests surrounding his Berkshires home and workshop. Not content with crafting instruments for himself, Nick passes on his knowledge by teaching...