Kathryn Boughton

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Freelance Journalist at Republican-American

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Libraries face defunding of services

1 week ago | kentdispatch.org | Kathryn Boughton

KENT, Conn.—The effects of federal cutbacks are beginning to trickle down to the local level. Last week, area librarians were alarmed to learn that programs important to rural populations, such as the interlibrary loan service provided through Connecticut State Library, were abruptly defunded effective April 1. The Connecticut State Library was notified by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, which oversees grants to states, that its 2024-25 federal grant awarded was terminated.
Trade Secret Gardens

2 weeks ago | berkshirestyle.com | Kathryn Boughton

If you planned on a sun-kissed day of touring exemplars of the garden arts during Trade Secrets annual gardening extravaganza Saturday, May 17, you had better hurry up. Tickets went on sale April 1 and two of the gardens are already sold out. Wait lists have been created for Bunny William’s gorgeous property in Falls Village and for Douglas Dockery Thomas’ property with its impressive vistas in Salisbury.
Berkshire Mountain Bakery

3 weeks ago | berkshirestyle.com | Kathryn Boughton

“Listen to that,” Richard Bourdon says as he squeezes a freshly baked loaf of bread in Michael Pollan’s beautiful 2016 Netflix series, Cook. “You can hear it crack, like walking on crispy snow. You crack it a little bit and the smell comes out. It is one of those little pleasures a baker might get.”Bourdon must have experienced that pleasure countless times at his Housatonic MA-based Berkshire Mountain Bakery since its opening in 1986.
Farms as Entertainment

4 weeks ago | berkshirestyle.com | Kathryn Boughton

Farmers had barely cleared and tilled the bony ridges of New England’s landscape before they began to pack up and move on to more fertile lands in the Midwest. Those that remained behind continued to scratch out their subsistence from stony fields ringed by the rocks they had painstakingly stacked into walls that traced the boundaries of their holdings.
Educators, state officials adopt a ‘wait and see’ toward DOE dismantling – Kent News, Inc

4 weeks ago | kentgtd.org | Kathryn Boughton

FALLS VILLAGE—Defunding and dismantling has been the order of the day in Washington, but local officials are still waiting to see what the turmoil will mean for the residents of the Northwest Corner. On March 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the federal Department of Education.
Live with Love

1 month ago | berkshirestyle.com | Kathryn Boughton

What roles do the things we own have in our lives? What makes some special and others mundane? For some of us, it could be the functionality of the special object, a tool that perhaps makes our lives simpler and is used over and over until it bears the imprint of our hands. For the visually sensitive, an object might gain favor for its esthetic appeal, the smooth curve of a bowl or the sinuous shape of a work of art.
Pooping in Our Pen

1 month ago | berkshirestyle.com | Kathryn Boughton

Two days before Christmas, Abby, our gloriously naughty, brilliant Boxer-mix dog, was hit by a car and killed instantly. It happened when she was returning from her early morning run along a rural trail, exuberantly dashing from side to side, exercising both her body and her freedom as she and my son made their way back to his truck. In what my son terms “15 seconds of bad luck,” their fate and that of an approaching driver literally collided.
Kent Ice Harvest

1 month ago | berkshirestyle.com | Kathryn Boughton

Today ice has moved to indoor rinks for modern sport but from colonial times through the first half of the 20th century—before refrigeration was finally generated electrically—ice was a commodity, cut from rivers or ponds, stored in icehouses and sold in blocks to keep food cold year-round. In this picture taken some time in the first decades of the 20th century, men are shown harvesting ice somewhere in Kent.
Revolutionary Women

1 month ago | berkshirestyle.com | Kathryn Boughton

If you were alive in 1968, you might remember the phrase, “You’ve come a long way, baby,” an advertising slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes that supposedly celebrated women’s liberation. If you were to ask Christine Gevert, artistic director of the Lakeville-based music program, Crescendo, she would tell you that women have not yet come far enough.
Cartoon's Golden Age

2 months ago | berkshirestyle.com | Kathryn Boughton

At the Norman Rockwell Museum Laughter is said to be the best medicine and the Norman Rockwell Museum is inviting us all to join in the humor provided through the world of cartooning in its next exhibition, All for Laughs: The Artists of the Famous Cartoonist Course, opening Saturday, March 1. The Famous Cartoonists Course, inaugurated in 1956, was an outgrowth of the successful Famous Artists School commercial and fine art correspondence courses established in 1948 in Westport Connecticut.