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Happening this Week

by CHARLOTTE PENROSE

UNDERGROUND MANHATTAN: EXPLORING THE NYC SUBWAY SYSTEM
VIRTUAL
January 20th, Thursday, 5:30 - 6:30PM
It’s right there under your feet when you’re walking around NYC, you may have ridden it many times in your life, maybe even daily. But how much do you really know about New York City’s subway system? Join transit expert and NYC Tour Guide Gary Dennis in a fast-paced virtual subterranean exploration of the world’s largest rapid transit system. Learn about the history of the NYC subway system which opened in 1904 with just a single line and take a closer look at the art, architecture and secrets hiding in plain sight in stations throughout the city. Free.
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JACKIE STORIES: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE IMAGE
VIRTUAL
January 20th, Thursday, 7 - 8PM
Join author Bill Kuhn for a glimpse into a significant period in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis that reveals both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image. Kuhn will discuss his encounters with friends and colleagues of Jackie which he describes as sometimes revealing and sometimes ludicrous. His first book about Jackie, Reading Jackie, was commissioned by Doubleday Publishing where she worked as an editor during the last two decades of her life. After conducting new interviews and revisiting older ones, Kuhn discovered new material and came to new conclusions about the former first lady—and himself—in Jackie Stories. Free.
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HOUSATONIC FLATS: BEGINNER SHOWSHOE/WINTER HIKE
IN PERSON
January 22nd, Saturday, 10AM
Join the Great Barrington Land Conservancy and Berkshire Natural Resources Council for a winter hike/snowshoe! Enjoy your time on this gentle, 1 mile beginner trail on the Housatonic Flats, whether there is enough snow to snowshoe or you’ll be covering the trail on foot. The leader of the trek will review the basics of winter hiking—everything from what traction to wear on your feet to the wildlife and plant life to expect. If you don’t have your own, there will be some adult and kids snowshoes available to borrow! Free. To register email mauman@bnrc.org.
Housatonic Flats. 439 Stockbridge Road. Great Barrington MA. 413.499.0596.
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MUSK OX AND MAMMOTHS AND GROUND SLOTHS, OH MY!
IN PERSON
January 22nd, Saturday, 2 - 3:30PM
Join Moki Kokoris—Arctic expert, environmental advocate and the first Ukrainian woman to reach the Geographic North Pole—for this fun talk on Arctic Ice Age animals. If you imagine a vast, treeless and grassy plain, much of it filled with large woolly beasts, you have a general idea of Ice Age Beringia—the ancient land mass encompassing eastern Siberia, Alaska and Canada’s Yukon. Beringia was home to a unique mix of animals tens of thousands years ago and, while many of these species have gone extinct, a few still roam the Arctic Region to this day! $10 White Memorial Conservation Center Members, $20 Nonmembers.
White Memorial Conservation Center. 80 Whitehall Road. Litchfield CT. 860.567.0857.
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FREEDOM FUND AWARDS: GIVING THE GIFT OF EDUCATION
VIRTUAL
January 22nd, Saturday, 6PM
The Berkshire County Branch of the NAACP will host its Freedom Fund Awards virtually. The annual event raises money for stipends for Black and Brown high school graduates and ,for the first time, immigrant students to continue their education. As part of the ceremony, the Branch recognizes community leaders or public individuals whose work embodies the vision of the NAACP and its efforts to eliminate inequality and injustice in our society. This year’s keynote speaker Dr. Kendra Taira Field—author and Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University—will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Freedom Fund Award; Nipmuc writer, musician, dancer and educator Larry Spotted Crow Mann will receive the Indigenous Peoples Award; and transgender activiist Jahaira DeAlto will posthumously receive the newly coined Jahaira DeAlto Balenciaga Award. Event is free, donations encouraged.
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