32%R[6WRFNEULGJH0$www.thesba.org Summer 2011 President’s Report of Stockbridge’s Community Preservation Act funds, a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection grant and funding from the Richard Seltzer, SBA President Town of Stockbridge. The SBA capital campaign, which succeeded in This winter, we expect to be able to conduct our first major drawdown raising this sum, was led by Shirley Blanchard, Matt Mandel, and Cris of the lake to kill the invasive Eurasian Water Milfoil. Raymond. As long as I have been a Stockbridge resident and a member of Silt Removal Is Next the SBA, we have been confronted with the spread We still have an enormous challenge in reducing the of milfoil in the Bowl and, for almost as long, we accumulation of silt that is filling important sections have known that there was a way to eliminate milfoil of our lake. That effort, which will be the final phase from shore areas by drawing down the lake in winter. of the Lake Management Program, could cost more A winter drawdown freezes and kills the exposed than $2 million. milfoil roots. Finally, we are acutely vigilant in facing the threat Now we are poised to achieve that drawdown. of invasive zebra mussels, a fast proliferating mollusk A large pipe to bypass obstacles in the outlet has that has degraded the quality of nearby lakes. Laurel been fabricated. The contract for its installation has Lake in Lee and the Housatonic River presently have been signed, and a great friend of Stockbridge Bowl, zebra mussels, as well as lakes in Connecticut, New Lauren Komack, has given the contractor permission York, and Vermont. The SBA has committed funds to cross her property adjacent to the outlet to both to monitoring boats arriving at the boat launch facilitate the installation. The entire project would area and to installing pressurized boat-washing not have been possible without this permission (see equipment in the area of the boat launch. a profile of Ms. Komack in this Newsletter). This is the culmination of years of work. A Small Snail Lake Monitoring Until now, major obstacles had precluded drawing down the lake. Environmental regulations Gary Kleinerman, Chair–Lake Management protected the shoreline habitat of a small snail, the The drawdown of 2010-11 went well, and we Pillsbury’s Spire Snail, and four partially submerged achieved the full 2 ½ feet. In order to obtain a really pipes bisecting the Bowl’s outlet limited our ability effective drawdown, we need also to have prolonged to lower the water level. Also, the cost to install the very cold weather and no snow. Snow acts as an large pipe to divert water under these sewer and gas insulator to the exposed shore line. However, it was a lines was considerable, and the SBA had to develop a good drawdown, so there is little room for complaint. plan to raise the necessary funds. This spring and summer, a lot of work needs to Working with the Town of Stockbridge, we hired be done around the lake. First order of business is a leading specialist in lake ecology, Dr. Ken Wagner, that we need to take sediment samples and have them who helped us demonstrate that the Pillsbury’s Spire tested for a long list of metals and other contaminants. Snail would survive the planned 5.5 foot drawdown. Some years back, these tests were made and the result To move water past the partially submerged was that the sediment in Stockbridge Bowl was below pipes blocking the outlet required engineering a the minimal contaminant level acceptable to the concrete pipe that is 250 feet long and four feet Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We have no reason in diameter. After constructing coffer dams, with to believe that things have changed; however, we do supervision from Tennessee Gas Pipe Line Company, need up-to-date tests. When phase three (dredging) the diversion pipe will be tunneled under the gas and of the Town’s Lake Management Program begins, we sewer lines. need to determine the composition of the material to $1 Million Raised be removed from the lake. This coming fall, with the The installation of the diversion pipe will installation of the Diversion Drain (phase one of the occur this fall and will cost nearly $1 million program), we will remove about 500 cubic yards of for materials, engineering fees, contractor fees, silt. When the major dredging occurs, we will remove supervision, and legal expenses. Raising $1 million approximately 85,000 cubic yards of silt that has was a great challenge and was only possible with built up over many years and is impeding the natural large contributions from SBA members, the Town outflow of the lake. Continued on Page 2 PAGE 2 New Members Enhance 2010-11 Board Patti Klein, Chair–Nominating Committee Six new members have joined the Stockbridge Bowl Association Board and all of them bring invaluable experience and perspective that enhance our ability to fulfill the mission of the SBA. Two of our new members are individuals elected in their own right at the 2010 SBA Annual Meeting last summer, and four are representatives designated by their respective organizations to replace prior designees. The board is currently comprised of 25 voting members: 13 individual members, 12 organization members, each generally serving a three-year term, and 5 honorary members. We are fortunate to have a very energetic volunteer board to provide the people power for the many projects undertaken by the SBA, including providing support (financial and otherwise) to the Town in implementing its Lake Management Program. We seek board members who can assist our organization in a variety of ways. This includes attending our (usually) monthly meetings and holding a position as an officer or chairing or serving on at least one of our various Steve Blanchard committees. The personal commitment of time by board members and the willingness of our member organizations to support our activities are essential in a not-for-profit organization Photo: with no employees. We encourage every SBA member to join our committees to help us with Autumn in the Outlet whatever job is at hand. Please contact any board member if you want to participate! Before turning to our new members, we also note with appreciation the service of those Lake Monitoring Continued from Page1 who retired from the board: Peter Sternerup, Chris Roy (Camp Mah-Kee-Nac), David Sturma (Tanglewood/BSO), Michael Duffy and Leah Larmon (Canyon Ranch) Over the summer, we will be conducting The biographies in brief of our six new Board members are given below. All of them already our regular underwater video program to have made significant contributions to our various projects and activities. determine any changes in vegetation and Continued on Page 3 makeup of the bottom of the lake. Lake conditions have been improving slowly over the years since we began charting them. Fewer invasive species have been found The Commemorative Bowl as their place is being taken over by local vegetation, which is a very good sign. The Stockbridge Bowl Association has given its Commemorative Bowl to the Historical However, we have to keep in mind that Room of the Stockbridge Library. The wooden bowl is a beautiful visual piece of the history of the amount of invasive species naturally the Stockbridge Bowl Association. tends to fluctuate from year to year. The inscription around the top of the bowl reads This year we will be doing seining and electro fishing, which is required by the DEP I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS to keep our permit to do a 5 ½ drawdown In the middle of the bowl there is a brass oval plaque with the following words: (phase two) active. We will hire an outside firm to do these two projects. In seine Founded 1946 fishing, a large net with weights, called a sein, is thrown into the water. When it is pulled Stockbridge Bowl Association up a minnow count it taken. Electrofishing Inscribed here are the names of those is a common technique used by biologists public-minded men and women who have to sample fish populations in bodies of preserved and enriched the countryside around freshwater. For electrofishing, a special boat the Stockbridge Bowl & have been selected by is provided with polls or electrodes that go a vote of the association to receive this honor down into the water. A jolt of electricity is Anson Phelps Stokes, founder sent through the electrodes that stuns the fish in the immediate area. The fish go Serge Koussevitzky into a state of narcosis, which lasts for a few Mrs. William Norton Bullard seconds, and float to the surface where they (FPSHF&+VEEr/BUIBO(FPSHF)PSXJUU are netted, weighed, counted and maybe -FF)JHHFOTPO(PVMEr+PIO)1(PVME even banded. They are returned to the water )FBUPO*5ISFBEXBZr.BCMF$IPBUF unharmed. Gertrude Robinson Smith We need to do frog and turtle George S. Wislocki monitoring to determine how many Henry H. Williams, Jr. there are from year to year. If anyone has Mary V. Flynn any experience in reptile and amphibian 3+.D%POBMEr$SJT3BZNPOE monitoring or would just like to help out, Gary Kleinerman Photos: Steve Blanchard please call me (413- 441-6244). All help is greatly appreciated. PAGE 3 New Members Continued from Page2 Michael Buffoni (individual director) was raised in Stockbridge maintains his residence at the camp year-round. “Through the 12 and has considered the Bowl as his home field all his life. He is the months, I have seen all the beauty that the Bowl is known for. I look Superintendent of Water for the Town of Stockbridge. Mike lives in forward to helping wherever possible to maintain our natural treasure West Stockbridge with his wife and five boys. They have a passion for for years to come.” Kevin has made his campers available to help our the outdoors. Mike is an avid fisherman (on ice and in a boat), and SBA Property and Trails Committee with clean-ups and has given us water-skis and tubes on the lake with his family. He joined the SBA immeasurable help with Stockbridge Bowl Day. Board because he has a great personal and professional concern with Robert Mills (Canyon Ranch) retired after many years in maintaining the water quality of the Bowl. advertising and public relations with GE. Over more than two Armand Katz (White Pines) is a semi-retired general surgeon. He decades, he has been a guide for hiking, biking, paddling, skiing and his wife visited the Berkshires periodically until 2006 when they and snowshoeing at Canyon Ranch, which he considers a great way decided to buy a home in White Pines. They now spend five months to spend this time in his life. “I have come to admire the focus and a year in the Berkshires and enjoy kayaking and canoeing on the Bowl. determination of the SBA Board’s movers and shakers.” William Laidlaw (individual director) was raised in Stockbridge Peter Socha (Tanglewood/BSO) is a lifelong resident of and grew up sailing on the Bowl. After college, Will studied wooden Stockbridge. Peter is the Building Supervisor at Tanglewood, where he boat construction and built sails and raced sailboats of all sizes on local, has worked for 11 years after 18 years in the building and construction national, and international levels. He moved back to the Berkshires in business. He holds the position of one of the three Sewer and Water 1998 to work at Pine Cone Hill in Pittsfield. He is a member of the Commissioners in Stockbridge. His wife Nancy is the Stockbridge Pleasant Valley Bird Sanctuary (MassAudubon) advisory committee Tax Collector, and their daughter and grandchildren live in Pittsfield. and continues to sail competitively, including at the Mahkeenac He served on the Stockbridge Conservation Commission in the Boating Club. Because of the vagaries of the lake’s wind patterns, Will 1980’s and 1990’s, and in this capacity he came to appreciate the fact finds the Bowl to be one of the most challenging places to sail in the that we all have to work together to protect our environment. Peter world. The lake represents tradition and home to him, and helping to has watched the Bowl go through many phases, and remembers the protect its future is among his priorities. lake without milfoil weeds. He looks forward to helping to maintain Kevin Lilley (Camp Mah-Kee-Nac) fell in love with the Bowl a healthy Bowl in future. in 2002, his first summer as an administrator at the camp. He now Photo: Steve Blanchard !e Stockbridge Bowl Association Board – Back row "om le# to right: Haldor Reinholt, R. J. McDonald, Peter Socha, Kevin Lilley, Jerry Sugar, Cris Raymond, Gary Kleinerman, Elaine London, Richard Seltzer, Eileen Ta#, Bob Wells. Front row: William Laidlaw, George Shippey, Kevin (Moose) Foran, Shirley Blanchard, Sally Wittenberg, Frank Russell, Patti Klein. Not present: Lorraine Abraham, Michael Bu$oni, Mary Flynn, Ira Golub, Barbara Hobbs, Ronald Kapro%, Armand Katz, Joan Kopperl, Matthew Mandel, Michael Nathan, Peggy Reiser, Sally Underwood-Miller.
Lauren Komack— in order to set the drain in place. The diversion When approached, Lauren’s immediate drain is the first step in the Lake Management reaction was to give her permission for A Gracious Neighbor Program. Without this first step, there can be this important plan. Lauren’s family’s Cris Raymond, no succeeding steps. attachment to the Berkshires actually An access site was needed as close as precedes her own time as her mother was Chair–Publications and Publicity possible to where the drain will be set. Gaining a summer camper in Monterey. Lauren The Stockbridge Bowl Association Board, permission to access this part of the outlet and her late husband Roy were, for years, its members, and the Town of Stockbridge has been an ongoing process. We thought attendees to Tanglewood concerts. Cousins owe Lauren Komack a great debt of that we had secured permission from one of of hers, Ted and Clarice Ley, had built thanks, as she has graciously offered to our lake neighbors, but at the last minute, a beautiful home on the outlet in 1972. allow the contractor of the long-awaited access was denied. Plans had to be redrawn to Lauren and Roy loved both the house and diversion drain to cross her property with accommodate a new site and this happened to the lake and when, in 2001, they had the all of the engineering equipment involved be on the Komack property. Continued on Page 4 PAGE 4 Gracious Neighbor Continued from Page3 The Stockbridge Zebra Mussel Committee opportunity to buy this home that they had George Shippey, Chair–Zebra Mussel Committee long admired and visited, they “jumped at the chance.” The Zebra Mussel Committee (ZMC) meets throughout the year. The members are Rod Agar, Before they purchased their home, Michael Buffoni, Barbara Cohen-Hobbs, Gary Kleinerman, Tim Minkler, Michael Nathan, and they came up every summer and stayed myself. The goal of the ZMC is to protect Stockbridge Bowl from zebra mussels. Once a body with family, friends, or, when nothing else of water has this invasive species, there is no known remedy to eliminate them. The mussels can was available, at inns. They both were clog pipes and outboard motors, cut the feet of swimmers, and destroy the natural ecology of the active canoers and swimmers, and Lauren lake, which can affect property values. The ZMC coordinates the monitors who sit at the Public Access Boat Ramp and recalled the times when they could swing supplements the monitoring program provided by the Division of Conservation and Recreation. from the rope in the outlet, jump off and Last summer over 5,500 watercraft were launched at the Bowl’s public access. This year we have swim in the lake. In the winter months, been advised by the state that it will provide a monitor for 5 days per week or 40 hours. The they were regular subscribers to the BSO at Committee then provides the balance of the paid monitors so that the ramp has coverage from Symphony Hall in Boston. 7AM to 7PM, seven days per week from May 27 until Columbus Day. Although Lauren is a professional Last year both the Stockbridge Bowl Association and Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health psychotherapist in Weston, Massachusetts, underwrote the cost of the paid monitoring program. Their extreme generosity is certainly and Roy was an investment advisor, their appreciated by all who use Stockbridge Bowl, and we look forward to their financial support for passion lay in music. As clarinet players, the coming summer season. they first met when they both were playing Last year the ZMC was responsible for the boat wash, which was located on Main Street at in a wind symphony. They named their the garage owned by architect Pam Sandler. The Town received a grant from the Massachusetts home in Interlaken Crossroads Bflat Woods. Environmental Trust in the amount of $25,000 to run the boat wash. Before becoming an investment advisor, The Committee believed that the boat wash would be more effective if it were located at the Roy was, for 17 years, with Bose Company Public Access property. Permission was obtained from the Public Access Authority and, with in its specialty professional products line. funding provided by the Stockbridge Community Preservation Act Committee, it is anticipated Lauren and Roy were married for just over that construction will begin in June. 26 years. Roy died in January of 2009. The most effective way to protect Stockbridge Bowl from zebra mussels is a combination of Today, Lauren runs a chamber music series monitoring and boat decontamination procedures. Both Laurel Lake in Lee and the Housatonic at the Center for Arts in Natick. When in River presently have zebra mussels, as well as lakes in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. It the Berkshires and not at Tanglewood, she is imperative that all who use Stockbridge Bowl do everything that they can to protect the lake frequents all the other cultural Berkshire from zebra mussels. Remember, once they are in the lake, there is no known remedy to eliminate sites that we are so fortunate to have. them! If we have the chance to celebrate the The Stockbridge Zebra Mussel Committee is always looking for individuals to participate diversion drain with a bottle of champagne, as paid monitors. The available hours are usually four-hour shifts. More information may be I vote that Lauren gets to smash the bottle. obtained by calling Michael Nathan at 298-4313. Please join our effort to protect our wonderful treasure—Stockbridge Bowl!
Property and Trails Haldor Reinholt, Chair–Property and Trails There was very little damage to our properties this past winter. The one tree that came down in Bullard Woods was quickly taken care of by my industrious colleague and co-chair Kevin (Moose) Foran. Recently, Moose and I both met with Bobby Lahart, the newly appointed Tanglewood Facilities Manager and Peter Socha, Tanglewood Buildings Supervisor and representative to the Stockbridge Bowl Association Board. We were informed that Tanglewood has posted their beachfront property, which means that the public may no longer walk across this area. This change in access affects the SBA trail that began in Bullard Woods, wended its way through Tanglewood lakefront, and connected with Gould Meadows. Moose and I have mapped out a new trail that we presented to the SBA Board at the May 21st meeting. With the board’s approval in hand, we shall now present the plan to the Stockbridge Conservation Commission. It was suggested that before we undertake some necessary clearing of the land, we flag and walk the trail to make certain that, at this time of year, we are not disturbing the nesting grounds of the bobolinks. Kripalu has offered us the people power to help lay out and clear the trail. Kripalu is truly one of our very best friends. Photo: Steve Blanchard A Moment of Reflection at Olivia’s Overlook PAGE 5 Neighborhood News early morning, sometimes early afternoon Camp Mah-Kee-Nac and sometimes early on a summer evening. Reports from eleven of our Kevin Lilley In addition, canoeing at the Bowl or one of Association members Established in 1929, on the shores of the other sites is scheduled for another half Stockbridge Bowl, Camp Mah-Kee-Nac for dozen outings a week. Tom Andrews is our Beachwood Boys has long been the summer home to Chief Operating Officer for watercraft and Peggy Reiser thousands of young men. Over those 80+ is responsible for power washing our canoes Beachwood, the informal name of the Beach- years, our camp has undergone a number of and kayaks regularly to assure against zebra wood-Lenstock Association, incorporated changes, but the one thing that has never mussels or any other contamination. He in 1953, is a lakeside community of approxi- wavered is our love of the Stockbridge Bowl. tells me he usually takes out two guests per mately one hundred twenty families. The Being on the Bowl has always been a outing for kayaking, and maybe a half dozen community has many multi-generational fam- large part of our summer program. Not only per outing for canoeing. Usually, once a week ilies who have been here for over 60 years. The are we amazed by its beauty, the Bowl is an or so, we take landlubber guests around the organization addresses many aspects of our integral part of our camp life. Our program lake, instead of on it, with hikes though community life: beautification projects, the currently consists of water-skiing, sailing, Gould Meadows and Bullard Woods. beach, and the welcoming of new members. canoeing, kayaking, swimming and, of One SBA board member once told me The Beachwood website allows communica- course, fishing. Each summer our 250+ boys, that she wakes up every morning, stands on tion among members with its electronic bul- in sessions from 3 to 7 weeks, can be counted the shore of Stockbridge Bowl and thanks letin board. The beach and adjacent “grove” on to enjoy the lake almost every day. her father for purchasing the property in is where you will find residents relaxing in the Of course, the Stockbridge Bowl offers l940. Canyon Ranchers also feel grateful summer. A canoe “condo” houses members’ more than water activities and beauty. The to have the Bowl as a part of their lives and boats. Bowl also has some great hiking trails. we want to help to keep this beautiful lake The Association sponsors several Adjacent to our camp property is Bullard vibrant and healthy. community-wide events. The Labor Day Woods. This natural tract of forest has long Weekend festivities draw a huge turnout. been a part of our Outdoor Adventure Kripalu Activities vary year to year but routinely and Nature program, a tradition since the Kevin (Moose) Foran include: children’s activities, a grove potluck founding of our camp. supper, and a campfire with singing, dancing, Along with our neighbors and friends, we With the unanimous approval of Kripalu’s and a visit from the “Spirit of Beachwood,” who hope that you take advantage of all the lake Board of Trustees, Kripalu Center for Yoga lights the constructed pyramidal campfire. We has to offer, and will continue to support the and Health has appointed David Surrenda all give thanks to Bernard Morcheles who has Stockbridge Bowl Association in its efforts its new CEO. David has been involved in the done this for many years. In addition, there are to conserve this natural wonder. If you would spiritual health field since the 1970’s. a Ladies’ Luncheon, wine tasting, book group, like more information about Camp Mah-Kee- A native of California, David has rented informal potlucks, theatre nights and more. Nac for Boys, please visit us online at www. a home on Mahkeenac Road until he and his The community is continually changing. campmkn.com or call us at 413-637-0781. family find permanent quarters. However, he One major change has been the increase in Editor’s Note: Each year, the staff and is not a newcomer to Western Massachusetts residents residing in Beachwood during kids from Camp Mah-Kee-Nac help the SBA as he earned a master’s and doctorate in the winter months. Some of our neighbors maintain Bullard Woods, and help make clinical psychology from the University of are retiring here, while others are spending Stockbridge Bowl Day a successful event by Massachusetts, Amherst. He was director more time in anticipation of full retirement contributing their time, effort and a canoe filled of the Leadership Edge, a California based here. This has resulted in an increasing with iced refreshments. Lads, we couldn’t do it consulting firm for 23 years, and founded amount of construction. We see long-time without you. the consciousness studies program at John F. Kennedy University in California and served summer residents replacing or upgrading their cottages with ones that will be used year as the dean of the school’s graduate school of Canyon Ranch holistic studies from l977-85. David also is round. Bob Mills Frank Russell, our Road Superintendent, on the board of several hospital systems. has the responsibility of maintaining the People come to Canyon Ranch for respite, With the new CEO in charge, roads. This past year a culvert on Beachwood healing and restoration, and often they find Kripalu’s board wants to move forward with Drive, the main “thoroughfare,” needed to be that they need respite from all that indoor community involvement by expanding its replaced. The project was superbly managed activity the Ranch provides— aerobics, yoga, services though partnerships with other by Jonathan Gottlieb and Frank Russell. Pilates, general body and mind rehab. It is institutions and participating in more off We are very grateful to the Town Police then that we take them outdoors. “Outdoors” campus activities with hospitals, schools, and Department, Fire Department, and EMS might mean hiking the Appalachian Trail, clinics. who, when informed of the project, developed bike riding the Ashtiwilticook Trail, or Richard Faulds, chairman of the Board a plan in the event that emergency services boating on Stockbridge Bowl. of Trustees, said that David Surrenda “is a were needed beyond the culvert. During the season, we offer canoeing, person who really bridges the mainstream Spring 2011 has seen the return of bears to kayaking and sculling on five lakes— world with the somewhat complementary the community. To keep bears at bay, we need Stockbridge Bowl, Richmond Pond, Goose and alternative practices that Kripalu is all to secure all garbage or food that may attract Pond, Becket Lake, and Onota Lake. The about.” them and take in all birdfeeders. As Chief Bowl, just down the road apiece, is a prime Members of the Stockbridge Bowl Richard Wilcox always reminds us: “from destination for canoeing and kayaking. Association Board have already witnessed November to April, they are birdfeeders, from We arrive at the Bowl almost daily for David’s commitment to be involved in April to November, they are bear feeders.” kayaking, perhaps six times weekly, mostly Continued on Page 7 PAGE 6 Annual Meeting and The Board of the Stockbridge Bowl Association Stockbridge Bowl Day 2010 invites you to attend the 2011 Annual Meeting and A!!"#$ M%%&'!( Stockbridge Bowl Day on July 23rd (rain date July 24th) The Stockbridge Bowl Association’s Annual Meeting, followed by at the Town Beach. The Annual Meeting will be from Stockbridge Bowl Day, was held at the Town Beach on Sunday, July 11:30 a.m.-12:30. Stockbridge Bowl Day, from 12:30 11. This was a rain date as the scheduled meeting for Saturday, July to 3:30, will follow the Annual Meeting. Refreshments 10 was canceled due to the deluge. The DVD on the Town’s Lake Management Program ran continuously and SBA board members of hot dogs, popcorn, and soft drinks will be served. were there to answer questions regarding all lake matters. Also, there will be pontoon boat rides around the lake SBA hats and t-shirts were available for purchase, as was this and to the outlet, if water levels permit, to explain year’s new addition of note cards featuring a black and white drawing of the lake that was created and donated by artist Bee Booth of where the Diversion Drain will go. In addition, there Stockbridge. The Annual Meeting Raffle generated great interest, will be special entertainment for children. We hope to and we very much want to acknowledge our Berkshire neighbors see you all there. who offered the wonderful raffle prizes: r Berkshire Theatre Festival of Stockbridge gave two tickets for a Main Stage event. r A Cocktail Cruise for 6 aboard a pontoon boat was generously offered by Michael Nathan. r Canyon Ranch of Lenox donated a Spa Renewal Day for 2 people. r Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Pittsfield gave the SBA a discount on the purchase of a kayak. r Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health gave a 2-Night Retreat and Renewal Stay for one person. r Nejaime’s Wine Cellars of Lenox and Stockbridge donated 6 bottles of wine in a gift crate. r The Price Chopper Store in Lenox gave a $25 Gift Card. r The SBA donated a beautiful new kayak and paddle. r Stonover Farm of Lenox offered a one-night stay in their Photo: David Dashiell School House Suite. !e Splendor of Fall Foliage r Tanglewood passes for 2 were donated by Barbara Cohen Hobbs. r Vlada Boutique of Stockbridge donated a $25 dollar gift certificate. r A Wicker basket filled with 5 large scented candles and candle dish was donated by Cris Raymond. Photo: William Loutrel THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, EACH AND EVERYONE ONE OF YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE Mahkeenac Shores in Winter STOCKBRIDGE BOWL ASSOCIATION RAFFLE. S&)*+,-'.(% B)/$ D#0 As in past years, the Annual Meeting was followed by Stockbridge Bowl Day. SB Day is a joint venture between the Stockbridge Selectmen and the Stockbridge Bowl Association. It is open to all residents of Stockbridge. Helping hands again were provided by our best friends at Camp Mah-Kee-Nac, along with their contribution of a canoe filled with iced soft drinks. Team Mah-Kee-Nac, we love having you as our neighbor and we much appreciate the man power you provide on Bowl Day. Pontoon boat rides around the lake again were offered. It is always amazing to find that there are still a few lake residents who
have never been at the Island, or even on the lake. Thanks also go to Photo: Steve Blanchard the generous pontoon boat owners who offered to lend and captain their boats for this very special ride. Spring Break – Ice Floes in April PAGE 7 Kripalu Continued "om Page5 Stockbridge pays to rent the rake and the nineties. His successor, W.E.D. Stokes, was driver. In order to actually get the hydro president for so long that when he finally the community. David came to the SBA rake into the outlet, permission from the stepped down in the 1980s, it required a board meeting in March and met our board Stockbridge Conservation Commission leap of collective memory to unearth the members. David expressed his eagerness and the Department of Environmental bylaws and elect Jack Swann as his successor. to learn more about the work the SBA is Protection is needed. When such permission Jack proved such a good president that the involved with, and immediately offered his is requested, there are forms on top of forms board of governors eventually promoted help on one of our most recent projects. that need to be filled out— a daunting him to be the club’s first “Commodore.” Jack When shown the prototype of the newly task— and I cannot heap enough praise on was also one of the club’s greatest sailors. created SBA bookmark, he offered to arrange the two people who helped me get through Another outstanding sailor, Criss Laidlaw, for the printing. this process. Enormous gratitude goes to just completed a ten-year term as president, On behalf of the SBA Board and its Jorja-Ann Marsden, Town Administrator, leaving the club in the best condition it has members, we heartily welcome David and Sally Underwood-Miller, Conservation been in years. Surrenda, his wife Lisa Rafel, and their Commission. Without their help, I could In the early 1900s, uniformed “boat family to our Berkshire Community and we not have gotten through this process. On men” staffed the club. The position of look forward to working together to preserve behalf of the entire SBA board, thank you, quartermaster was later created and filled and protect Stockbridge Bowl, its watershed, Jorja and Sally. by a motley and wonderful succession of and its beautiful wildlife. young professionals and college students who camped in the club’s tiny bedroom and juggled Lake Drive The Mahkeenac the responsibilities of sailing coach, lifeguard, Michael Nathan Boating Club carpenter, housekeeper, and short-order cook. There are now five families in Lake Drive who Carl Sprague – President For the last two decades, Gary Miller has been are living here full time. That leaves the other quartermaster, bringing extraordinary energy, thirty households as second homeowners, The Mahkeenac Boating Club was founded ability, and stability to the job. until the day when they too can become in 1890 by a group of Berkshire cottagers. The original club sailboats were the part of our year-round community. There Anson Phelps Stokes was elected its first popular “beetle” catboats. In the twenties, was a lot of road repair needed this past year president. This group purchased a small these were replaced by a fleet of “Wee due to the fact that this area surrounding and rocky strip of old hemlock forest on the Scots,” and today the club maintains a dozen the lake is extremely hilly, which causes a Western shore of Stockbridge Bowl. The indestructible Mercuries, some of which great deal of runoff. Part of the road repair modest club house was erected in 1891, as are over fifty years old. Races are held after project also involved working on the culverts. well as a now-vanished stable building at the lunch every Saturday in the summer. Gary Drought and runoff—the havoc twins of top of the drive where members could leave offers instructional sailing camps for juniors the Berkshires! The tremendous amount their carriage horses. Originally conceived as and there is competitive junior racing. of snow this winter also raised the cost of a kind of aquatic adjunct to the Lenox Club, Starting with the club’s 100th anniversary, living in the Lake Drive area, along with early Boat Club minutes indicate that the the custom of holding dances was revived. A every other area in the Berkshires, with an boards and meetings of the two organizations new tradition of Wednesday grill nights has inordinate amount of plowing needed from often overlapped. proven incredibly popular. independent companies. Many of the roads Club activities in the cottage era were Club membership is currently capped at around the lake are private and therefore not remarkably similar to what they are today about 140. This number is just about what the covered by the Town’s highway department. —swimming, sailing, rowing and paddling, old building can accommodate when everyone In addition to being the representative lunching, and the occasional party. The place shows up for the Fourth of July picnic and to the board from Lake Drive, the other hat has always been wonderful for children. fireworks. Even though the place is actually I wear is coordinator of the Bowl’s harvester. Back when the New York Times had a in Stockbridge, the Mahkeenac Boating Club social column and the Berkshires figured in Due to the incredible drought last summer, is still what the New York Times described in the harvester was not able to get into the it, numerous reports of regattas, teas, dances, 1894 as “the coolest place in Lenox.” outlet during the last few weeks of August water carnivals, and races appear. There were since the water level was at an all-time low. over two dozen boats at the club by the end The little harvester, which fits well in the of 1891. In 1894, the young women of the Mahkeenac Heights outlet, is in dire need of repair and cannot club competed in the first organized sailing Lorraine Abraham be used. I coordinate the harvester schedule race. With membership at the Lenox Club We are happy to report that this was a quiet with Mark Viola, our intrepid driver who then restricted to men, the MBC offered not winter up at the Heights and, unlike the runs the machine. Although it might look only pleasant lakeside breezes, but also a bit winter before, all houses still have their copper like the prime summer job, running the of equal opportunity. Saturday teas followed piping intact. In February 2010, houses harvester is difficult work, and when the lake by informal boat races and dancing soon owned by Will Hudgins, Doug Ousley, and is rough and lightning strikes, there is hardly became a fixture. By 1900 the club had over a Amy Sales had their copper pipes stolen. anyone who would switch jobs with Mark. hundred members. We are also experiencing the welcoming We thank you, Mark, for the great job you do The boat club has been fortunate in of a second generation of home owners. for us all. having long-serving leaders. David Lydig Many of the original owners, who purchased For this coming summer, my work succeeded A.P. Stokes and was president for their cottages in the 40’s and 50’s, have passed has entailed requisitioning the hydro rake more than two decades. Giraud Foster served away, and a new generation of children, who to come into the outlet. The hydro rake is from the late ’teens to the club’s fiftieth grew up in these cottages, has continued owned and run by the city of Pittsfield, and anniversary, and he was still sailing into his Continued on Page 8 PAGE 8 Mahkeenac Heights Cont’d "om Page7 much older original style homes. David and summer as well as visiting on weekends. Our maintaining their properties. #e Albert, Cheryl Brause have built a beautiful new amenities include 2 Har-Tru tennis courts, Billings, Hudgins, Purnel (Krich), Sachs, home, and David and Linda Haertline are a heated indoor pool, exercise room and a Stein, Wilson, and Zeutlin cottages are now completing their new house. Richard and beach on Stockbridge Bowl. Residents can inhabited by this new generation. Alisa Altabef are finishing a renovation of store their watercraft at the beach and enjoy Both Burghart twins, Amy and Katie, their newly purchased property. all aspects of the Bowl, including kayaking, whom we all watched grow up, were married Eli Einbinder has become the new canoeing, motor boating, swimming, and last summer. #e community celebrated President of the Mahkeenac Terrace fishing. Like most of the communities in the the event at a lovely brunch hosted by their Association. The Association has spent a lot area, our residents enjoy the many cultural parents, Linda and David. of time trying to maximize the best use of venues in the Berkshires. Many of our #e Heights community welcomes our unused North Beach lot. A great deal of residents have been here since the mid 1980’s Elizabeth Ostling. a BSO member, and effort and debate has gone into discussing the and have established long-term relationships Donna Wolfe/Je$ Heisler. future of this property. Our road drainage but we also welcomed our newer residents Members of our community continue issues have been partially addressed over the into the fabric of the community. to participate in local a$airs. Several winter and repairs will be continued this volunteer at Tanglewood and other cultural summer. attractions. Our neighbor Marty Bookspan The entire Terrace community is will celebrate his 85th birthday on July 30th, very saddened to note the passing of Joan Save Stockbridge and will continue his wonderful lectures at Messinger. Our condolences go out to Marty Messinger and the Messinger family. Tanglewood. Bowl Campaign Mahkeenac Shores Tanglewood In an effort to fund the Lake Management Ron Kapro% Robert LaHart, Plan, the SBA has begun shepherding the Tanglewood–Facilities Manager necessary funds, almost $3 million dollars, The Shores has had an exciting year, with The Tanglewood Beach is a recreation site for this extensive project. In January, the new construction, new neighbors, and the Town of Stockbridge signed a contract with continuity of generations. Sally and David for the multiple Tanglewood institutions. BSO staff, orchestra members and their Cairns and Sons to install the diversion Lebwohl, Marion Lipson’s daughter and son- drain at the outlet of the lake. This first in-law, have bought the former Voisin cottage. families enjoy the lakefront area. Several BSO members have motorboats, sailboats, phase of the project will cost nearly one We wish them many happy years enjoying million dollars and is being paid for by: the Shores. We also wish Martha Voisin and windsurfers. The beachfront also is well as she is sorely missed by one and all. enjoyed by the students, faculty and staff of r Individual contributions $175,000 The former Cohen cottage was replaced the Tanglewood Music Center, and by the r Department of Environmental with a new house owned by Russ and Mary Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Protection grant $248,000 Lou Glazer, our new neighbors from Long The BSO also has a Days in the Arts Program r Community Preservation Act Island, NY. They finished building last fall, (DARTS) that we sponsor, and each grants $230,000 and spent their first Thanksgiving at the Wednesday, for eight weeks, approximately r Stockbridge Bowl Association new house. We’re happy to have them as a 70 kids and counselors use the beach. So, I $150,000 welcome addition to our community as we all would estimate that the number of people r Town of Stockbridge $100,000 get to know them better this coming summer. using our beach on a daily basis is in the 50- r Tenneco $68,000 A second home is being transformed in 60 range. Of course, all lake activity occurs when weather, schedules, and studies permit The SBA will continue to raise the our community. Bill Loutrel and Tom Fynan additional $2 million necessary for the bought the waterfront cottage formerly time out. Taking care of our beachfront along with the vast Tanglewood grounds keeps our de-silting phase of the Save Stockbridge belonging to the Fingerhut family, and have Bowl campaign by asking individuals and almost-completed construction of their new very talented and able grounds crew on an almost 24/7 schedule. The lake itself and its organizations to support this necessary house. They have provided our community project, by continuing to apply for grants, with steady updates and pictures, which view from the grounds is an important part of Tanglewood. and by asking for continued support from taught us that construction can actually the Town of Stockbridge. be done during the dead of winter. Bill’s Editor’s Note: The SBA appreciates its emails also enlightened us as to some of long-standing relationship with Tanglewood. The SBA Campaign Committee the winter activities in the region, such as Tanglewood has offered to store construction Shirley Blanchard, Campaign Manager the horse and riding show at the farm on materials for the diversion drain project over Matt Mandel and Mahkeenac Road in the middle of winter. the summer. Cris Raymond, Co-chairs We all look forward to another exciting Patti Klein and relaxing year at the Shores! White Pines Joan Kopperl Armand Katz Michael Nathan White Pines is a 68 unit condominium Peggy Reiser Mahkeenac Terrace Frank Russell Jerry Sugar community on over 300 acres of landscaped The past year has been the busiest year and wooded areas. There are single family, Honorary Chairs of home construction since Mahkeenac duplex, and multifamily buildings. About Nancy Fitzpatrick Terrace was built in the early 1950’s. We have 10% of the community is full-time residents, Joseph H. Silverstein had three new residences take the place of with most others here for part or all of the George Wislocki PAGE 9 Membership Report Linda P. O’Connell John A. & Maureen L. Sprano Cris C. Raymond #e Ste' L. Fletcher Trust Shirley Blanchard, Bruce J. Rubin, Trustee, Ethel & Herman Michael C. Stephen Chair–Membership Rubin Foundation Peter L. & Joanna B. Strauss Donald D. & Barbara Shack Jerome & Kathleen Sugar #e Stockbridge Bowl Association wishes Marc & Linda Silver Aso O. Tavitian to acknowledge the generous contributions Harvey & Mary S. Waller to our annual membership drive. Below is Trout — $100-$249 Justin Wernick the list of those who made contributions Aetna Foundation, Inc. Wheeler and Taylor, Inc. directly to the SBA. It does not include Robert & Elaine Baum Marc T. Wilhelm the names of those who pay their basic Richard Bernstein & Janice Abbott Henry H., Jr. & Joan T. Williams SBA dues through their Lake Association. J. Stevens & Shirley B. Blanchard Robert G. & Elisabeth Wilmers If we have inadvertently omitted or Arthur D. & Marilyn M. Brimberg Stephen & Sally A. Wittenberg misspelled your name, please accept our Timothy S. Cage & Eric M. Nelson Robert A. & Dr. Phyllis S. Yawitt apologies and do send your corrections to: Joseph L. & Phyllis W. Cohen Stuart & Paula Yurman #e Stockbridge Bowl Association, P.O. Daniel J. Cole Eugene Zazofsky & Erika Goldberg Box 118, Stockbridge, MA 01262. #ank Michael & Marilyn R. Dee you one and all. Your support is deeply Catharine B. Deely Turtles — $50-$99 appreciated. Don Wilcox Deno Robert and Helen Alsop W. Eric & Margot T. Egan Leonard & Hannah Antiles Eagles — $500+ Dr. Aaron H. & Rosa M. Esman #omas M. & Margaretha Arienti James D. Kiggen & Ani Shaker Mary V. Flynn Paul R. & Lenore Aronson Lorraine A. Abraham Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen Lawrence J. & Beverly R. Bader Bernard Ackerman Ralph & Audrey Friedner Royce Bancro( Beachwood Lenstock Assoc., Inc. Stephen A. & Arlene Genatt William M. & Lynn E. Barry David & Cheryl Brause James W. & Virginia M. Giddens Sarah Higginson Begley Canyon Ranch Mgmt. LLC as Agent for Gorbach Family Foundation Irene Bernstein C.R. Resorts Tenant Corp Great Josh Billings RunAground Lewis Bernstein & Dr. Gaya S. Arano$ Dr. Je$rey N. & Karen Cousin Drs. Mark L. & Vivian N. Greenberg Martin Bookspan Chester W. & Joy A. Douglass Charles & Joan Gross Michael & Tammy H. Breitman Ruth W. Friendly Michael S. & Ricki R. Helfer Hester L. & Laura Broad #omas M. Fynan & Wm. Lountrel Gregg Henegar and Karen Leopardi Edward J. Burke Ira & Susan Golub Stuart & Susanne D. Hirsh&eld Daniel R. & Joan Burkhard Weston M. & Ann L. Hicks Hope Church Richard-Scott S. Burow Dr. Alice Susan Kandell Barry Izenstein & Paula Algranati Izenstein Malcolm R. & Barbara T. Busch Dr. Robert Kantor Peter & Meredith Kaim Patricia M. & Lisa M. Buttenheim Edward F. Keon, Jr. & Patricia Kennelly Neal & Vicky Kass Henry S. & Elizabeth M. Cecil Lake Drive Association Rachel Haigh Kinney Andrew M. Cohen Mah-Kee-Nac Operating Co. LLC Michael & Peggy Klapper Bruce & Joan Cohen Mahkeenac Shores Association Joan H. & Paul B. Kopperl Stephen Philip & Elaine R. S. Cohen Mahkeenac Terrace Association Earl & Janet Kramer Barbara Cohen-Hobbs Robert & Ellen %uinn William Laidlaw John Haskett Davies & Mickey & Ellen Rabina Richard & Edith Lasner Helen Ho$man Davies Peggy Reiser & Charles Cooney Dr. Benjamin & Sharon L. Liptzin Burt & Ellen Downes Richard & Carol Seltzer Matthew B. & Catherine C. Mandel Jay & Laurie Dubner Allen L. #omas David & Betsy McKearnan Michael & Caryl Erdos Dr. Andrew C. & Lynn J. Warheit R. Timothy & Nancy L. Minkler Stephen & Bonnie Fenenbock White Pines Condominium Trust David & Linda L. Morel Dr. Kenneth & Linda Frank Blue Herons —$250 - $499 Jordan B. Moss & Margaret M. Groarke Steven M. & Nancy A. Gallant Michael Nathan & Beth Y. Laster #omas L. & Annemarie Gauger William E. Briggs Ray E. Newton, III Norman Gittleman Stewart M. & Judith S. Colton Richard & Laura Pasternak Rabbi Robert S. & Faith Klopman Goldstein Barbara Crosby Bert & Letty Cottin Pogrebin Jonathan & Elisabeth Gottlieb Rich & Caren Osten Gerszberg Haldor & Eugenia Reinholt Douglas M. Goudey & Scott & Ellen Hand Albert P. & Laura K. Richman Sara J. Kleiner-Goudey Harvey & Patti Klein Lewis M. & Anne F. Rothman John C. & Chara C. Haas Lauren J. Komack Linda B. & J. Frank Russell John D. Hatch, III Richard & Nedra Koplin Joseph M. & Patricia A. Salvadore Sara Stokes Hatch Edwin & Elaine London Sunny G. Schwartz James & Carol P. Hindels Mahkeenac Heights Association Seven Salon Spa Russell E. & Dorothy A. Hogg Faith Menken Stephen A. & Leslie A. Shatz Richard S. Jackson, Jr. Dania Moss Bernard L. & Patricia H. Shaw Gail H. Ja$e Mary Mott & Gordon Simmering Peter Sherman Jane Kasten Drew E. & Lynn L. Neidorf Robert H. & Jan Spero Abraham & Clarita Kaufman PAGE 10 Arthur & Deborah Kaufman Interesting Facts Town of Stockbridge, and Bullard Woods, Seymour & Rhoda Koenigsberg owned and managed by the Stockbridge Steven I. & Laura P. Krich about Stockbridge Bowl Association, both have walking trails Edward Y. & Marcia S. Kung to the lake. Bullard Woods also provides Phil & Carol Laban Bowl picnic tables and a boat-landing ramp. Andrew S. & Toby H. Levine Stockbridge Bowl is owned by the There are more than 450 homes, often Mr. Sidney & Dr. Judith Levine Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is referred to as cottages, around the lake. Roger S. & Jane B. Loeb considered a Great Pond. The State owns Many are at the lake front while others Walter & Phyllis Loeb the lake, the Town of Stockbridge owns the are tucked into the hills, mainly behind Julia Lord-Kalcheim problems, and the SBA works closely with the east and south sides of the lake. There Michael M. & Ellen M. Martin the Town to help solve these problems. The are five lake homeowner’s organizations Rodney B. McDaniel Town of Stockbridge owns where homes often are being renovated or R.J. & Brigitte McDonald approximately 2,875 feet of shoreline around Stockbridge built. The number of houses noted here is Janet McHugh approximate. On the east shoreline there Emily H. Mekler & Marc J. Cohen Bowl: 300 feet at the boat ramp, 1,125 feet Paul C. & Sandra G. Merlino at Gould Meadows, 450 feet at the Town are Mahkeenac Shores (25 houses), north Leonard & Marian Meyerson Beach, and an estimated 1,000 feet from the of that is the Terrace (20 houses), and the Gary Miller & Charlotte dam to the proposed diversion drain at the Heights, which is above the lake and has Underwood-Miller outlet. 35 houses. Near Town Beach, there is a John R. & Kristen J. Morse The original name of Stockbridge Bowl cluster of homes called Beachwood. There Joseph H. Newberg & Alice V. Melniko$ was Lake Mahkeenac. It was given this are about 120 houses in the Beachwood Lt. Col. Roland Nicholson name by the Mahican Indians, a tribe of the compound, some along the lake and many Christopher H. L. Owen Mohicans. Mahkeenac means “home of the others hidden in the woods behind the lake. Russell & Emily Parker Mahekanus.” For a brief period of time it Lake Drive, an area that is located at the #omas D. Perry, III was called Mountain Mirror, and there is a outlet, has 35 houses. Andrew L. & Katherine C. Pincus map at the Stockbridge Library indicating There is a causeway at the east shore. Carol A. Procter that name. Across the causeway road is Lily Brook Larry Jay & Myra R. Promisel Stockbridge Bowl comprises 372 acres Pond, which was the holding pond for the Ethel N. Purnell & Laura P. Krich of water. From its north shore to the outlet lake. Years ago, one could paddle a canoe Donald E. & Catherine %uinn at the south end, it is about 1 ¾ miles long, under the causeway and into the pond, but, Keith M. & Marie P. Ra(ery about ¾ miles wide, and has approximately unfortunately, it is now impassible due to Michael P. Rosow & Joan L. Sickler 6 miles of shoreline. The maximum depth the build up of silt, beaver dams and weeds. Vlada Rousse$ is 48 feet; average depth is approximately North of the causeway is the community of Jane K. Ryan 27 feet. The transparency is generally good, White Pines, a cluster of condominiums. W. Merrill & Carolyn A. Sanderson about 13 feet, except when the lake weeds Next to White Pines is Camp Mah- Pamela Sandler are in bloom. Kee-Nac, founded in l926 by Joe Kruger, David B. & Alice R. Schi$ During a recent sampling, there which is a boy’s camp from the end of June Henry & Irene Schi$man were 13 species of fish: largemouth bass, to mid-August. From 2002 to 2007 during Charles E. & Martha Schlueter the last week of August, Camp Mah-Kee- Robert & Leila Schnitzer chain pickerel, yellow perch, bluegill, Stanley Z. & Roberta S. Shapiro pumpkinseed, yellow bullhead, black Nac renamed itself for one week and became Alan Silverstein & Laura Dubester crappie, rock bass, golden shiner, white America’s Camp— a seven-day camp for Arnold & Barbara J. Silverstein sucker, rainbow trout, brown trout, and boys and girls who are the children of 9/11. Joseph & Adrienne Silverstein lake salmon. The trout and salmon are the The kids who came here are the children Harvey B. & Rita G. Simon result of annual spring and fall stockings. Ice of policemen, firemen, municipal workers, John H. Jr., & Judith L. Spencer fishing is very popular. and stewardesses who lost their lives in the Albert L. & Sheila D. Sturmer Public access to the lake is provided 9/ll tragedy. The first year there were 79 Sunny Side Acres, Inc. by a double concrete boat ramp with a 40- children. In 2007, America’s Camp moved Eileen Ta( car parking lot on the northwestern shore. to Camp Danbee in Hinsdale because the Bruce D. & Karen K. Temkin The ramp was installed by the Berkshire number of children increased to 350 and Reginald Tidball County Commissioners in the 1950’s and Camp Mah-Kee-Nac could not contain Laura Lee Tota is now controlled by the Commonwealth. them all. Kenneth & Joan Tracht Swimming at the ramp area is forbidden. Next to the Camp is Bullard Woods. In Henry Uman The canoe part of the Josh Billings race is l961, this land was given to the Stockbridge Donald L. Usher launched from here. Bowl Association by Mrs. William Norton Nancy Vale There are three additional accesses to Bullard and is open to the public. The Elliott & Harriet Vines the lake. At the south-east shoreline, the Woods are managed by the SBA. The SBA William H. & Diane J. Vogt Town Beach provides a sandy beach, life has created and maintained a wonderful Philip Wallach guards, changing and rest rooms, picnic hiking trail that starts at Hawthorne Road Claudine Z. Yannoni tables, and playground equipment for and wends its way to the shoreline. There Robert F. & Sonja S. Zecher children. This beach area is open only to is now a bridge that fords a stream in the Rena Zurofsky residents of Stockbridge. Areas open to the Woods and one can walk through the public are Gould Meadows, owned by the Woods down to the water. Adjacent to the PAGE 11 Woods is the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s beach house. Kripalu Center for Yoga and with a very active membership. Tanglewood Beach. This is enjoyed by Health purchased the property in l983 and Toward the south end of the lake members of the orchestra, the Tanglewood recently added an extension. Kripalu is the there is an island known simply as The Music Center students, and the Days in the largest residential Yoga and wellness center Island. It is about two acres of land that is Arts program. About 50-60 people a day use in the U.S. owned and maintained by the Stockbridge the Tanglewood Beach. The Tanglewood Above Kripalu is Seranak, owned by Bowl Association. The Island is one of the Beach property is adjacent to the Town’s the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was nesting grounds for the Canada Geese. Gould Meadows. the summer home of Serge Koussevitzky, It also attracts blue herons, green herons, The Kripalu Center for Yoga and the founder of Tanglewood, who, for osprey, loons, cormorants as well as many Health abuts Gould Meadows. The Kripalu many years, was the director of the Boston ducks. Behind The Island one of the lake’s site was originally Shadowbrook, one of Symphony. The name Ser-a-nak stands for problems is very visible—the infestation the loveliest “cottages.” When it was built Serge and Natasha Koussevitzky. Natasha of the beautiful but unfortunately invasive in1893 by Anson Phelps Stokes, it was the was Koussevitzky’s first wife. When she water lilies. Continuing south past the largest home in America. Later it was sold died, he married her niece Olga, who island is the Outlet, which leads to the dam to Andrew Carnegie, who was in residence had been her secretary. After the death of and the lake overflow. here at the time of his death. During World Koussevitzky, Madame Olga continued to Compiled by War II when Carnegie could not return spend her summers here. Cris Raymond, to his beloved Scotland, he came here to Berkshire “cottages” that can be seen at Chair–Publications and Publicity Shadowbrook as the rolling landscape east side of the lake are Wheatleigh, built in reminded him of home. Shadowbrook 1893 by Henry Harvey Cook and inherited burned to the ground in March of l956. by his daughter Georgie upon her marriage At the time, it was owned by the Catholic to the Count Carlos Manuel de Heredia, Church and was a Jesuit training seminary. and Elm Court, built in 1886. Elm Court After the fire, the Church built the brick was the residence of William Douglas Sloan structure that we see today. Due to a decline and Emily Vanderbilt Sloan. in the Jesuit order, the building was closed The Mahkeenac Boating Club is just Photo: Steve Blanchard and left vacant for 13-years. The old stone south of the boat ramp. The club was boathouse on the lake was the Shadowbrook founded in the 1890’s. It is a private club !e Josh Billings
2011 Membership The Stockbridge Bowl Association operates totally on membership dues collected each year. With the contributions of nearly 500 members, from individuals and the five lake associations, the SBA continues to maintain Bullard Woods and The Island as clean and attractive open spaces for public enjoyment. We contribute to the effort to resist the invasion of zebra mussels and provide education to the public about Stockbridge Bowl on our website www.theSBA.org and in various pamphlets. Membership in the Stockbridge Bowl Association is open to all who care about the quality of our Berkshire environment. You may become a member by sending a check to the Membership Committee, The Stockbridge Bowl Association, P.O. Box 118, Stockbridge, MA 01262.
Yes, I would like to celebrate the beauty of the lake and support its preservation.
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Summer: Name ______Address ______City______State: ______Zip ______Winter: Name ______Address ______City______State: ______Zip ______Please print clearly: E-Mail Address: ______Stockbridge Bowl Association is a not for profit 501 © (3) organization. All contributions are deductible to the full extent of the law. 2010-2011 Board of Directors FYI President Association Members Second-Homeowners Meeting Richard C. Seltzer Beachwood Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in the Meeting Room of the Town Offices. Peggy Reiser Vice President Camp Mahkeenac Patti Klein SBA Annual Meeting Kevin Lilley Secretary Saturday July 23rd (rain date Sunday July 24) at the Town Beach at 11:30. to 12:30. Canyon Ranch Sally Wittenberg Robert Mills Stockbridge Bowl Day Co-Treasurers Kripalu follows the SBA Annual Meeting 12:30-3:30. Light refreshments will be served. Lorraine Abraham Kevin Foran There will be entertainment for children and pontoon boat rides will take all Frank Russell Lake Drive interested parties through the Outlet, water level permitting. Come and see the Individual Members Michael Nathan Lake Management Program’s initial step of the Diversion Drain site up close and Shirley Blanchard Laurel Hill Association Michael Bu$oni TBA personal. Ira Golub Mahkeenac Boating Club Barbara Hobbs Sally Underwood-Miller The SBA has created a beautiful book mark. The book marks are at the William Laidlaw Mahkeenac Heights Stockbridge Library. Please take one; it can only enhance your reading. Elaine London Lorraine Abraham Matthew Mandel Mahkeenac Shores The Town Waste Transfer Station Haldor Reinholt Ronald Kaprov Monday-Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturdays: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and in Eileen Ta( Mahkeenac Terrace July and August Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Honorary Board Members Jerry Sugar Please note: This does not mean that one may arrive one minute before closing, as Mary V. Flynn Tanglewood the gates close promptly. Consideration is always appreciated. Gary Kleinerman Peter Socha Joan Kopperl White Pines Returnables: Bottles and cans that have a 5-cent deposit may be put in the returnable R.J. McDonald Armand Katz bin. The money collected benefits the local Little League and Boy Scout Troop. If Cris Raymond you are not collecting the change, let someone else enjoy it. Also please remember
The Stockbridge Bowl Association is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. to separate your waste. When in doubt, please ask the attendants Larry Kurber and
Contributions to the Stockbridge Bowl Association are tax deductible. Pliney Hunt.
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Howard Moskowitz Howard Diversion Drain will enable water to flow beneath flow to water enable will Drain Diversion
Bob Mills Bob of a 600,000 gallon water-storage tank at the Marian the at tank water-storage gallon 600,000 a of the summer. Digging will start in the winter. The winter. the in start will Digging summer. the
in the town office building at 10 a.m. 10 at building office town the in Matthew Mandel Matthew
A separate contract for this project is the completion the is project this for contract separate A over bid for out project the put to ready be to hopes
Elaine London Elaine
East Street, and Glendale Road. Glendale and Street, East
project. All the permits have been filed and the town the and filed been have permits the All project. Second Homeowners meeting with the Selectmen the with meeting Homeowners Second Patti Klein Patti
are part of the project are East Main, Shamrock, Pine, Shamrock, Main, East are project the of part are
Barbara Hobbs Barbara We have the funds necessary for this part of the of part this for necessary funds the have We
to Main Street homes and businesses. Other streets that streets Other businesses. and homes Street Main to
Ira Golub Ira Saturday July 10th July Saturday Corp of Engineers. of Corp
Kevin Foran Kevin by the potential threat of a fire that could be devastating be could that fire a of threat potential the by
of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Army the and (DEP) Protection Environmental of
Shirley Blanchard Shirley showers and other household usage is overshadowed is usage household other and showers
delayed. We now have approval from the Department the from approval have now We delayed.
Lorraine Abraham Lorraine inconvenience of not having enough water pressure for pressure water enough having not of inconvenience permission for the new site all caused the plan to be to plan the caused all site new the for permission
become encrusted, which reduces the water flow. The flow. water the reduces which encrusted, become Members Board
tcbig Cnevto’ Commission’s Conservation’s Stockbridge [email protected]
have broken, and the inside diameter of the pipes has pipes the of diameter inside the and broken, have
All are invited are All redesigning the engineering plans, and getting the getting and plans, engineering the redesigning
(413) 243-6718 (413)
over 100-years old. Over time, some of the pipes may pipes the of some time, Over old. 100-years over
a new site for the drain, obtaining access permission, access obtaining drain, the for site new a
Gary Kleinerman Gary
Street. The cast-iron water pipes in some instances are instances some in pipes water cast-iron The Street. order to reach the work site in the Outlet. Selecting Outlet. the in site work the reach to order
insufficient water flow and pressure mostly on Main on mostly pressure and flow water insufficient President
bann priso t cos rvt poet in property private cross to permission obtaining
BOARD of DIRECTORS of BOARD
hs rjc ws netkn eas tee is there because undertaken was project This
Boat rides and refreshements from 2-4 p.m. 2-4 from refreshements and rides Boat Program. We encountered several setbacks, including setbacks, several encountered We Program.
at the end of March 2010. March of end the at h frt hs o te ons ae Management Lake town’s the of phase first the SUMMER 2010 SUMMER
water main project was approved and work was begun was work and approved was project main water Drain— Diversion the install to plan the with ahead
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