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Berkshire Living celebrates first anniversary
11.15.05
Early in the summer of 2004, I was minding my own business, prattling around my house, when the phone rang. I picked it up, and the guy on the other end was saying something about publishing SPIN magazine, so I immediately assumed the call must have had something to do with the fact that at the time I was mostly working as a rock critic. But after a few minutes of explanation, I was able to hear more clearly what Michael Zivyak, whom I now understood to be the former publisher of SPIN, was suggesting: he was starting a magazine right here in the Berkshires and wondering if I’d have any interest in such a project. This call had nothing to do with rock music, and everything to do with a subject nearer and dearer to my heart: my adopted home.
As many of you have reflected to us over the past year with your supportive comments, Michael’s concept was something of a no-brainer: to publish a magazine worthy of our region, one that would capture and celebrate the area’s landscape and lifestyle in a manner befitting a region that can lay claim to an inordinate number of cultural and historical landmarks. But even a no-brainer needs someone or some group of people to make a vision a reality, and it certainly struck me from day one that given his experience in the magazine world, his energy, and his boundless enthusiasm, Michael was the one who could lead the charge. So I was happy to fasten my seatbelt and hitch a ride on his express, even if I wasn’t sure exactly where it was we were going.
Now, one-and-a-half years later and a year since our debut issue, I marvel at the roller coaster—the veritable whirlwind ride—upon which we’ve embarked. A year ago it was just Michael, our creative director Laura Morris, and me, holed up late into the night—late into many nights—at Michael’s dining room table, cranking out the first few issues. Soon we were joined by editorial assistant Amanda Rae Busch, and not long after that, by managing editor Chris Newbound. Then came our move into an actual office space in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and we were up and running full-steam-ahead, with the essential help of designer Mary Tunnicliffe and far too many writers, photographers, illustrators, and production people to thank here.
People ask me how it feels to have come through the first year—to look at the pile of nine issues representing our first annual cycle. Those of you who have children will understand me when I say it’s a lot like having kids: you’re totally involved with their every sound, look, and move for the first year of their life. Then all of a sudden, they’re a year old, walking and talking, bearing little resemblance to what they were a year ago—and you have no memory of how they got to this point. You know you were there every step along the way, but all of a sudden, you’re the proud parent of a one-year-old person, a veritable grown-up compared to a newborn, and the only rational explanation for what has happened is. . .it’s a miracle.
That’s sort of how I’m feeling today. I know I was there every step of the way during Berkshire Living’s growth from conception to birth to its first anniversary, a part of just about everything that made it happen, but frankly, it’s all a bit of a blur. I have no idea how we got here. Still, it’s been the thrilling ride of a lifetime, and one, of course, that we couldn’t have taken without you.
Happy reading.
Seth Rogovoy
Editor-in-Chief
BERKSHIRE LIVING
seth@BerkshireLivingMag.com
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