What Wealth Owes to the Rest of Us - #8
The Feigenbaum brothers built an empire in management consulting and gave nearly all of it back to the Berkshires. Their business valued responsibility, craftsmanship, and long-term thinking — ideals now comically out of fashion. It's a story about what it means to owe something to the places and people that shape us.
Spring Break on the Riverwalk (the one in Tampa) - #7
About a visit to the Tampa Museum of Art, and trying not too hard to take a break from being a snob and just enjoy “a journey through time and imagination”
McKinley, Tariffs, and Trump - #6
How a bronze monument in Adams connects Gilded Age protectionism to today's trade wars… and the personalities of two very different presidents
This is the artist, and this is the Art! - #5
David Lynch and the power of personality, with an aside about Édouard Manet
Showing up for 2025 - #4
On teaching, hearing from unfamiliar places, and embracing imperfection.
Just one thing I saw in 2024 - #3
Looking back at one artwork that made an impact on me in 2024 — a conversation between Perugino and Raphael in Perugia
Unfolding lost circus posters - #2
The Bennington Museum exhibits once-lost print fragments of shows from the turn of the 20th century. The risky preservation effort picked apart dozens of layers pasted atop one another to reveal scenes of wild animals, acrobats, and Wild West shows.
Welcome to 'Next County Over' - #1
Kicking off NEXT COUNTY OVER, a newsletter about arts, culture, and history that begins in the Berkshires (but won’t end there).