Snowden Wright, Stone Court Writer-in-Residence reads from his work on Saturday, May 9, 2015, 3 pm at The Mount, 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA 01240. Visit EdithWharton.org or call 413.551.5100 for more information.

Admission FREE.

Praise for Wright’s work: “Fervent, musical prose… extraordinary imagination and soul.” – Will Allison, author of The Long Drive home

Snowden Wright, Stone Court Writer-in-Residence in Stockbridge, MA, is originally from Oxford, MS, and was selected from an outstanding group of applicants to bring a southern voice to the Berkshires. As Stone Court Writer-in-Residence, he has spent the spring in Stockbridge, writing and teaching a Creative Writing Workshop at the Berkshire Waldorf High School.

This event is co-sponsored by these great Berkshire organizations:

• The Mount Edith Wharton’s Home
• Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
• Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives
• Berkshire Waldorf High School

Stone Court Writer-In-Residence, D.J. Thielke will read from her short stories on Sunday, December 14th at 3pm at The MOUNT, home of novelist Edith Wharton, in Lenox, MA. The event is free to the public, and generously supported by the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Berkshire Waldorf High School, Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives, and The Mount.

Thielke, originally from Houston, TX, was selected from a large pool of highly qualified applicants to be awarded the inaugural residency at the Stone Court Writer-In-Residence in Stockbridge, MA. As part of the residency, Thielke is teaching a creative writing elective to students at the Berkshire Waldorf High School. The Stone Court Writer-In Residence program offers two annual residencies, one that begins in September and the other in February. The program provides up-and-coming writers a sanctuary, with the freedom, time, and materials they need to fully immerse themselves in their work.

Thielke’s work has appeared in such journals as Arts and Letters, Indiana Review, Cincinnati Review, Southern Humanities Review, and the New Delta Review: Best of the Web. In addition, her plays have been produced at the Houston Fringe Festival and the Frenticore Fringe Festival. She currently serves as Assistant Editor of Narrative Magazine.

Berkshire Waldorf High School students will share their short stories written in Thielke’s creative writing elective. The public reading is Wednesday, December 10th at 7pm at the Berkshire Waldorf High School, 14 Pine Street, Stockbridge, MA.

On Sunday, June 8th, the Waldorf High School, Stockbridge, MA, graduated the Class of 2014, the eighth graduating class of the Waldorf High School, founded in 2002. Graduates include Justin Graeff of Pittsfield; Solomon Joffe, New Marlborough; Mac Litishin, Monterey; Nicholas Sagarin, Great Barrington; Arthur Seltzer, Great Barrington; Milena Stanton, Great Barrington; Henry Ward-Hanke, Lakeville, CT; and Esther Young, Hillsdale, NY.

The ceremony was held in the Kellogg Music Center at Simon’s Rock College of Bard. John McManus, on the teaching faculty in Speech and Drama at Point Park University, Pittsburg, PA, addressed the graduates with a fairy tale from Grimm’s, “The Three Feathers,” and decoded it with an exploration of success and failure, asking them, “like the fool in a fairy tale, to be open to an honest experience of the world.” Each of the students also addressed the assembled Board members, faculty, families, friends and classmates. Board Chair Alan Lombardi and Faculty Chair Stephen Sagarin, Ph.D., presented the graduates with their diplomas.

This fall, Joffe will attend Bennington College, where he plans to study architecture. Sagarin will study business at the University of Montana, Missoula; Seltzer will attend St. Johns College, Santa Fe, to pursue studies in the humanities. Stanton will attend Connecticut College to study psychology. Ward-Hanke will travel to Antarctica during a gap year before studying at Pratt Art Institute. Young will study photography at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Graeff and Litishin will attend Berkshire Community College, where Graeff plans to pursue premedical studies, and Litishin to pursue computer science.

“I can’t sit down when Entrain is on the radio! Every time I play them on WMVY, the chair goes flyin’ back and I’m up dancin’ in the air studio. We’ve been playing Entrain since their first CD in ‘94 and the music always makes the station sound great.” – Barbara Dacey, Program Director, WMVY, Martha’s Vineyard 

Dance, move, celebrate the end of the school year with some great music! Tom Major’s band, “Entrain,” will perform as a benefit for the Waldorf High School at the Brick House Pub in Housatonic on Friday evening, June 6, at 8 p.m. Tom is the father of 10th grader Carmen and of rising 9th grader Val. Suggested donation at the door is $20. The Brick House is located at 425 Park Street North. Call the Brick House at 413. 274. 0020 or the school at 413. 298. 3800 for more information. Find out more about the band here: Entrain – Official Website