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Berkshire Living celebrates the great outdoors
8.1.06
Editor's letter [from August 2006 Berkshire Living]
It was incredibly gratifying to receive the recognition of our peers at the annual meeting of the National City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA) this past June in Boston, where we garnered awards for general excellence and general criticism (the latter specifically for Timothy Cahill's terrific “Private Tour” column). Our fellow editors and publishers from around the country were generous, at times downright effusive, in their praise of the work we’re doing at Berkshire Living. My reply to them was always heartfelt and always the same: we have a great subject.
Seriously: imagine how lucky I am to edit a magazine devoted to this amazing region, so rich in human, natural, and cultural resources. I mean no disrespect when I say: after all, I could be editing something like Northern New Jersey Living or Iowa Monthly or West Virginia Life (I’m making these up). I’m sure there are many good things to celebrate about all of these places, but I’m also confident that none of them, and few other regions in the country, could possibly make for compelling reading, issue after issue, as do the Berkshires.
All this is by way of saying that as much as we here at the independent, locally owned and now award-winning Berkshire Living proudly take credit for our accomplishments in our very first year-and-a-half, we also happily acknowledge the role of and share the credit with the Berkshires itself: the beautiful region, the fascinating people, our savvy advertisers, and our intelligent, sophisticated readers who know a good thing when they see it. Without all that, we’re nothing.
We’re also nothing without the freelance contributions that make up the bulk of each issue. We have a talented group of photographers and illustrators who let me sleep easier, knowing as I do that they’re on the job, helping us to stand out from the pack and look gorgeous. It’s truly an all-star team with people like Scott Barrow, Gregory Cherin, Fred Collins, Jason Houston, Kevin Kennefick, Alison Kolesar, and Kevin Sprague in the lineup. What you see in these pages is just a small sampling of the work they produce. That’s impressive.
And our ever-growing stable of writers does more than just report what’s going on. They generate many of the ideas that become stories and then immerse themselves in the people and places before bringing their tales to life in vivid, informative prose. We welcome Ilona Bell and Chris Sallon to these pages for the first time; we welcome back occasional contributors Derek Gentile, Jennifer Mattern, Peter McLaughlin, and Paul Rapp (and urge them to become more frequent contributors); and we give a hearty thanks to our ever-reliable standbys, including Tad Ames, Timothy Cahill, Robin Catalano, and Bess Hochstein.
As if all this weren’t enough, I’m also blessed with the greatest group of staffers, whose talents for thinking, writing, editing, and design are imprinted on every page of the magazine. The hardworking team of managing editor Chris Newbound, assistant editor Amanda Rae Busch, editorial assistant Miranda Ganzer, and our newest addition, summer intern Daniel DuBois (who stepped right up to bat and hit one over the fence with his piece on kayaking, “A Bend in the River,” on page 103), are indeed generally excellent, and also a pleasure to work with. And without our dynamic duo, creative director Laura Morris and senior designer Mary Garnish Tunnicliffe, putting everything together in the attractive package you hold in your hands, we might as well just close up shop.
Two years ago publisher Michael Zivyak approached me with the idea for Berkshire Living and invited me to join him in this creative endeavor. It was the beginning of more than merely a partnership, but a profound collaboration and a true friendship. I write this letter just days before Michael’s wedding to his lovely fiancé (his wife by the time you read this), Lauren. I know I speak for everyone who knows them when I wish them a rich and full lifetime of love and happiness together--—where else but here in the Berkshires.
Happy Reading!
Seth Rogovoy
Editor-in-Chief
Berkshire Living
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