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Letter from the Editor of BERKSHIRE LIVING
12.28.06
From The Editor of BERKSHIRE LIVING
While we have well-established parameters for Berkshire Living, we also try to stay fresh in each issue. One of the most effective ways of accomplishing this is by adding a few new names to the masthead. In this issue alone, two writers and two photographers make their Berkshire Living debuts—writers Gina Hyams (“Two’s Company,” p. 58) and Shawnee Barnes (“The Young and the Not-So-Restless,” p. 64) and photographers Stephanie Motta (“Relative Perspective,” p. 38) and Timothy Kushi (“The Young and the Not-So-Restless,” p. 64).
Once we learned that Jeanine Dunn was formerly art director at Ski magazine, it was a no-brainer to farm out the design of this month’s feature on Ski Butternut (“There’s Snow Place Like Home,” p. 80) to her, knowing full well Jeanine would come up with something innovative and different, with no disrespect meant toward our two remarkable in-house designers, Laura Morris and Mary Garnish Tunnicliffe. In fact, farming out a feature gave Laura the opportunity she’s long wanted to tackle a redesign of our Scene Around section. You can see the terrific results of Laura’s rejiggering beginning on page 15.
What’s equally remarkable about the contributions from new personnel to this issue is how they stand out as fresh, unique voices and visions yet at the same time fit in so well with our already established corps of writers, photographers, and designers. A single issue of Berkshire Living just wouldn’t be the same without contributions from some or all of our regular photographers, including Jason Houston, Fred Collins, Gregory Cherin, Scott Barrow, and Kevin Sprague, the last of whose winter landscapes we are thrilled to present in a glorious eight-page photo spread in our features section (“The Winter of Our Content,” p. 88), plus the cover. And you can pretty much count on reading the work of Timothy Cahill and Bess Hochstein, as well as staffers Chris Newbound, Amanda Rae Busch, and yours truly, in pretty much every issue.
While I love being an editor, which includes brainstorming stories or working with proposals for stories, matching them to writers and photographers, editing the work they turn in, and collaborating with the designers to make the layouts tell the story with maximum impact, probably the most fun part of the job is still writing, especially when it means getting to meet and hang out with artists like Walton Ford (whom I profiled in the Nov/Dec 2006 issue) and Gregory Crewdson (“Through a Lens Darkly,” p. 30). I think it’s probably the same for Chris and Amanda; it’s always thrilling when they return to the office after having been out interviewing someone to hear how excited they are about their story subjects, which then turn into such great pieces like “Relative Perspective” by Amanda Rae Busch, on page 38, and “Minding the Store” by Chris Newbound, on page 106.
It’s hard to believe, but we begin our third full year of publication with this issue. I guess a resolution is in order: I hereby resolve to do my darndest to keep Berkshire Living both fresh and familiar, incorporating elements of surprise into each issue alongside the tried-and-true upon which you have come to expect and rely.
Happy reading!
Seth Rogovoy
Editor-in-Chief
Berkshire Living
January/February 2007
seth@BerkshireLivingMag.com
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