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Berkshire County Nonprofit Advocates For Greater Regional Rail Access

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Josh Landes
Published January 19, 2019 at 12:00 PM EST
An Amtrak train arrives at the station in Hartford, CT.
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Karen Christensen is an author and the co-founder Berkshire Publishing Group in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She’s also the founder and president of the Train Campaign – what she describes as “an accidental operation that’s taken on a life of its own.” The nonprofit group works to educate the communities of Berkshire County in Massachusetts and Litchfield County in Connecticut – and their neighbors – about the future of rail transportation in the region. She spoke with WAMC this week about the group’s goals this year.
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Josh Landes
Josh Landes has been WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief since February 2018 after working at stations including WBGO Newark and WFMU East Orange. A passionate advocate for Berkshire County, Landes was raised in Pittsfield and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, receiving his bachelor's in Ethnomusicology and Radio Production. You can reach him at jlandes@wamc.org with questions, tips, and/or feedback.
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