Stockbridge Senior Center
Shine Counseling Center — Learn about programs available to help. Call Polly at our Senior Center or Winnie Veretto at 528-1556.
Senior Tax Work Off positions, call Michael Canales at 298-4170 — x 100
Yoga — in our gym Monday and Thursdays 4pm — 5pm and Wednesdays 10am
Walking — Tuesday and Thursdays, 10am — 11am
Pancake Breakfast — January 26 – 9am — 10am
The joint is jumping! There are all these programs and more!! Stop in and find out.
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Berkshire Botanical Garden Presents ‘Musings in Nature,’ from Feb. 9-25, in its Leonhardt Galleries at 5 West Stockbridge Rd. In this juried show presented by the Guild of Berkshire Artists, 20 member artists will each present about three works that interpret their concept of what nature means to them. The Berkshires, where many members live and work, serve as the Guild’s muse. That includes Berkshire Botanical Garden itself, which hosts the Guild’s plein air group. The Guild’s work covers a wide range of visual media, including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, textiles, wood, glass, and mixed media. The opening reception for “Musings on Nature” is Feb. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. Leonhardt Galleries hours for “Musings on Nature” are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. — 3 p.m.
Berkshire Botanical Garden’s 27th annual Winter Lecture
Where: Duffin Theatre, Lenox Memorial Middle and High School, 197 East Street, Lenox, Mass.
When: Saturday, March 2, 2pm to 4 pm.
What: Fergus Garrett, the CEO and head gardener at Great Dixter House and Gardens in East Sussex, England, will speak about Biodiversity at Great Dixter: How a Flower Garden Can Support Some of the UK’s Most Threatened Species.
Great Dixter, the family home of gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd, is one of Great Britain’s most revered house and gardens and a place of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world. Famous for merging the natural and the cultivated world, Great Dixter’s long grass, scattered ponds, old walls, and changing flower borders provide a rich environment for all manner of fauna and flora.
Fergus Garrett was born in Brighton to an English father and Turkish mother. He spent his formative years in Istanbul, Turkey. Upon returning to the United Kingdom, he went to school in Brighton and then studied horticulture at Wye College, University of London. He joined Christopher Lloyd as his head gardener in 1993.
Tickets for the Winter Lecture are $40 for members of Berkshire Botanical Garden and $55 for non-members. They are available online at BerkshireBotanical.org or by calling 413-320-4794.
Established in 1997, the Winter Lecture Series was initiated by the Berkshire Botanical Garden to bring inspiring and noted speakers to the region to talk about horticulture, landscape design and history, plants and plant exploration, and home gardening. Past speakers have included such luminaries as Tom Coward, Marco Polo Stufano, Dan Hinkley, Edwina von Gal, Penelope Hobhouse, Bill Cullina, Debs Goodenough, Dr. Michael Dirr, Ken Druse, Anna Pavord, Thomas Woltz, and Margaret Roach. Proceeds from ticket sales support the Garden’s education programs.
