Berkshire on Stage

[GHENT, NY] The Ghent Playhouse presented a check for $ 2700 to the Columbia County EMS Education program representative PJ Keeler on February 11th.  The donation resulted from a benefit reading of Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever earlier in January.  Ghent Playhouse Artistic Director Cathy Lee-Visscher, Roman Fever Producer Vivian Wachsberger…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 In April of 1921 popular author Elizabeth von Arnim*, then 55, widowed from her first marriage, divorced from her second, and being wooed by a handsome young man 30 years her junior, rented a medieval castello at Portofino, Italy with two other women.…