How long is a holiday?
This blog has taken a holiday in the spring, while I put together the Summer Previews calendar (all 72 pages worth) and the first two Berkshires Week summer magazines. Now I am finding the rhythm of this season. Summer around here is always busier, faster growing and full of ripening plans.
Dalton Fair comes to town June 4-8. Eagle file photo.
This weekend, in honor of Memorial Day. my brother and sister and I and my oldest friends spent time at a family place, walking in the woods and playing cards by kerosene lamp. We pulled objects from twenty years of tide walking and flea markets off the shelves and looked at them. Mussel shells, drift wood, binoculars with metal eye pieces.
On the third day, sitting sleepily on the steps of a used bookstore, I thought how restful this small holiday had been. But then, how long does a holiday have to be, to be a holiday? How about an evening outdoors, with picnic sandwiches and drummers on the lawn. Or a lunch with a friend in a place you haven't seen in years. After all, the county is turning into a place people come to, and we are already here. So I hope that that summer listing of events will encourage many holidays, for all of us who live in the mountains.