Clark Art Presents Morning Self-Care

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, July 22, the Clark Art Institute presents a "Morning of Self-Care" with activities designed to engage and relax.

From 9:30 am to 10:30 am, local yoga instructor Mary Edgerton leads free all-levels yoga sessions inspired by the sights and sounds of the Clark's natural landscape on the Reflecting Pool lawn. Continue a morning of self-care and introspection indoors when the museum opens at 10 am. Visitors can pick up a Pause and Reflect Guide at the Clark Center admissions desk and embark on a contemplative engagement with art in the galleries, alone or with a loved one.

Yoga takes place by the Reflecting Pool and is free. Remember to bring a mat.

At 11 am, Reflections: Introspective Gallery Talk offers a guided gallery experience in which visitors, led by a Clark educator, work together to explore a singular work of art in the Clark's permanent collection.

Reflections gallery talks meet in the Museum Pavilion and are free with gallery admission; advance registration is required. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.

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Discrimination Against Muslim Americans Persists 25 Years After 9/11

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
07:00AM / Saturday, September 12, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dozens of Muslim Americans were among people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Untold numbers of Muslim Americans have suffered countless acts of discrimination in their aftermath.

"Of course, you'll find several accounts of Muslims from all over the U.S. describing how they went from the unknown kids in the school to being stereotyped or ridiculed for their Muslim names," Sidra Mahmood recalled recently. "However, many Americans forget that the victims of 9/11 were also Muslim Americans.

"I can't forget the time when a classmate broke down in sobs when 9/11 came up in our classroom at the Islamic seminary I went to in Texas, because her father's best friend who was like an uncle to her, died on 9/11."

Today, Mahmood is a chaplain at Williams College. In 2001, she was growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, when terrorists forced two passenger jets into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and another plane into the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. A third plane, which terrorists hoped to crash into a D.C. landmark, was brought down in western Pennsylvania after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers.

The attacks, which ultimately claimed 2,976 lives, horrified people around the world, including in Mahmood's native land.

"I remember being aghast like anyone who witnessed the fall of the Twin Towers in real time," she said. "However, even as a child, fear gripped me about the possibility of war, especially once we learned that Afghanistan, right adjacent to Pakistan, would be attacked by the U.S. My mother had told me about the 1971 war between India and Pakistan when she remembered hiding in the dark after bomb sirens would go off in Punjab after intentional blackouts.

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