Clark Art Presents: The Writing on the Wall

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —The Clark Art Institute hosts the return of the literary celebration The Writing on the Wall on Sunday, July 20 at 3 pm, featuring a quartet of award-winning actors performing short fiction readings.

This special program combines art, theater, and the written word. The event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.

According to a press release: 

James Naughton, Maria Tucci, John Benjamin Hickey, and Julie White star in a new program featuring dramatic and comic readings taking on searing and sublime subjects. Naughton delivers Michael Cunningham's stunning coming-of-age story “White Angel.” Tucci offers Margaret Atwood's devastating parable “Death by Clamshell,” in which Hypatia of Alexandria, a real-life figure who was murdered in late antiquity, narrates the story of her life and death at the hands of a mob. Hickey presents Thomas Meehan's classic comedy of wordplay "Yma Dream," and White takes on Lynna Williams's “Personal Testimony,” about trouble in Bible camp as a preadolescent preacher's daughter begins writing testimonies for her fellow campers.

Actors subject to change.

Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under). Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For more details and to purchase tickets, visit clarkart.edu/events.

Mohican People Honored with Display in South Williamstown

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
08:23AM / Sunday, June 21, 2026

The idea for the installation was inspired by a sculpture installation at Field Farm.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A granite installation in Bloedel Park next to the town's new traffic rotary honors the area's first residents and caps an effort that began five years ago.

 

The large granite wall across from the Store at Five Corners is adorned with emblems inspired by the symbols that decorate baskets of the Mohican people. It provides a testament to the presence of the ancestors of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, who, thousands of years ago, lived in the land now known as Berkshire County.

 

The black and red images of a leaf and bear claw are accompanied by an interpretive panel telling part of the story of the native people who fought with the Americans in their Revolutionary War and later were forcibly removed from the area in the late 18th century. 

 

Today, the Mohican people persist with nearly 1,600 enrolled members on or near a reservation in Wisconsin.

 

But the Stockbridge-Munsee Community has never lost its connection to its ancestral home, and, in the last decade, more of the area's contemporary residents have worked to recognize that link.

 

Bette Craig thought the then-planned roundabout would offer an opportunity to highlight that historic link.

 

"It all started in 2021 when MassDOT was having a Zoom meeting to tell the local community about it and get feedback and so forth," Craig said on Thursday. "At the time, I was the president of the South Williamstown Community Association. I was saying things about [the proposed project], and one of the community people listening was Polly Macpherson, who I knew from the League of Women Voters.