Karen Christensen
About A Smaller Circle
Karen Christensen, CEO Berkshire Publishing Group
karen [at] berkshirepublishing [dot] com
I belonged to a community garden as a teenager in Palo Alto and had an allotment in London, so it’s easy for me to see the story behind this story in the New York Times. Things don’t always work perfectly between people, even in the garden. (Remember that the Biblical creation story is set in [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2010 under Camberwell (London, UK), Civic life & public places, Urban community.
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Interesting take on how geography affects community life, in “Small town brings sense of community.” I’m sure there are many other factors, but the shape of our physical environment does affect how we connect and stay connected: In our small town of Spencer, the teenagers know what they’re doing after school or after work – [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2010 under Building community, Civic life & public places, Community attachment.
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Reading, via Twitter, Boston Globe article about Pittsfield and the arts and then ReimagineRural blog commentary about the piece made me think of our article on boosterism, an old tradition that is alive and well in the Berkshire Hills. I’ve been here long enough to be skeptical about sustainable revival of a non-tourist economy here [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2010 under Civic life & public places, Community economics, Community in the media, On Main Street, Rural community.
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Fascinating to consider how we became so capable of being alone together. The quiet and solitude of a modern Western coffee shop is more like libraries used to be.
Posted: November 21st, 2009 under Civic life & public places, Community in the media, Third places, Uncategorized.
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