The Mount Announces Winners of the 2011 Edith Wharton Writing Competition

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LENOX, Mass. — The Mount, the historic estate of Edith Wharton, has announced the winners of the 2011 Edith Wharton Writing Competition. This winter, more than 100 students from high schools in Berkshire County and surrounding areas participated in the annual creative writing contest, which invited entries for fiction and poetry.

The Mount invites all contestants and their teachers and families as well as the general public to attend an awards ceremony at The Mount, 2 Plunkett St., from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 30. The afternoon ceremony will open with a keynote speech by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge, author of "The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton." Award winners will be presented with prizes and will be invited to read their winning works aloud.

The winners are as follows:

First Prize, 11th and 12th Grades ($250 Awards)

Sam Levin, Monument Mountain Regional High School - Fiction
Margaret Park Haas, The Hotchkiss School - Poetry

Second Prize, 11th and 12th Grades ($150 Awards)

Quinn Martin, Monument Mountain Regional High School - Fiction
Alexandra Copp, The Hotchkiss School - Poetry

Honorable Mention, 11th and 12th Grades (Gift Awards)

Christopher Cuevas, Lee High School - Fiction
Erin Rosalie Ostheimer, Mount Greylock Regional High School - Poetry

Sam Levin, Monument Mountain Regional High School - Poetry

First Prize, 9th and 10th Grades ($200 Awards)

Alaina Demopolous, Miss Porter's School - Fiction
Emily Tarjick, Hoosac Valley High School - Poetry

Second Prize, 9th and 10th Grades ($100 Awards)

Adelaide Bullock, Berkshire School - Fiction
Kelsey Hebert, Mount Greylock Regional High School - Poetry

Honorable Mention, 9th and 10th Grades (Gift Awards)

Zavi Sheldon, Mount Greylock Regional High School - Fiction
Elizabeth Paolucci, Chatham High School - Poetry
Julia Reynolds, Berkshire Country Day School - Poetry
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Lenox Library and The Bookstore Hosts Author Eoin Higgins

LENOX, Mass. On Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 at 5:00 p.m., Lenox Library and The Bookstore will partner to present journalist and historian Eoin Higgins as he discusses his brand new book, "Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left."
 
According to a press release:
 
"Owned" is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks have turned to media as their next investment and source of influence. Their cronies are Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi—once known as idealistic and left-leaning voices, now beneficiaries of Silicon Valley largesse. Together, this new alliance aims to exploit the failings of traditional journalism and undermine the very idea of an independent and fact-based fourth estate.
 
Owned examines how this shift has allowed spectacularly wealthy reactionaries to pursue their ultimate goal of censoring critics so to further their own business interests—and personal vendettas—entirely unimpeded while also advancing a toxic and antidemocratic ideology.
 
A rich history of the decades-long rise of this new right-wing alternative media takeover, Owned follows the money, names names, and offers a chilling portrait of a future social media and news landscape. It is a biting exposé of journalistic greed, tech-billionaire ambition, and a lament for a disappearing free press.
 
Eoin Higgins is a journalist and historian from the Berkshires. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Intercept, The New Republic, The Nation, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Common Dreams, The Outline, Splinter, Deadspin, and many others. Additionally he writes for Morning Brew's tech newsletter, IT Brew, with an audience of nearly 100,000.
 
This event is free and open to the public and will take place at Lenox Library, 18 Main Street. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Please visit https://lenoxlib.org for more information.
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