WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will offer a day of special activities on Sunday, Feb. 5 as part of its Fun on First Sundays program.
Admission to the galleries and special exhibitions is free all day, and visitors can enjoy activities from 1–4 pm.
To honor the Manton Research Center building's fiftieth-anniversary celebration, February's First Sunday theme, weather, is inspired by an artist in the Clark's Manton collection—who was as much a meteorologist as he was an artist—John Constable. Explore tools used to understand weather conditions and pose with a friend in front of the "wacky weather photobooth." Then, celebrate the snowy season by making a snow globe or weather landscape. A weather scientist leads discussions about Constable's cloud paintings at 1:15 pm and 3:15 pm.
Admission to the Clark is free through March 2023. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. No advance registration required.
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9/11 Now Part of Broader Conversation in Classrooms
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — When talking about teaching the greatest American tragedy of the 21st century in today's classrooms, teachers draw a parallel to how they were taught about one of the defining moments of the 21st century.
"Oddly now, it is kind of like when my World War II relatives and teachers talked about the Depression or Pearl Harbor," Mount Greylock Regional School history teacher Jeffrey Welch said recently. "The kids [today] are generally interested in personal and social history, and so, for that reason alone, they are curious.
"But 9/11 is also a 21st century icon. Local families lost loved ones, some of whom are still connected to the school community. Also, so many have connections to NYC and have been to Ground Zero and the museum. It is poignant, I think, but far less visceral for the students to study with the passage of time."
As the nation prepares to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on Friday, the nation's classrooms are the place where the events of 9/11 and its repercussions are being taught to a generation that lacks the emotional grounding in the events at Ground Zero that high school students may have had as recently as a dozen years ago.
At Wahconah Regional High School, Bryan Patton, who was reached separately for this story, made the same historical reference when asked about teaching 9/11 25 years after the fact.
"It's interesting because the way we have covered 9/11 has evolved over the years," Patton said. "It definitely used to get students' attention as a current or recent event years ago. For many students now, it's the way Pearl Harbor or Vietnam was when I was a student in the '90s.
"It was actually a difficult thing for my colleagues and I to grasp as they didn't live through it. It was before they were born so to them it's just an historical event. They ask questions. They care. But it's not the visceral response it used to be."
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