Allison Zelman weds Max Lesko

Allison Lee Zelman and Max Schaetzel Lesko were married atThe ​​Hotchkiss School’s Fairfield Farm in Lakeville​ on Sept. 23, 2017. The wedding was officiated by the couple’s friend, Noland Chambliss.

Ms. Zelman, who grew up in Lakeville and attended Salisbury Central, Indian Mountain and the Berkshire School, is a daughter of Dr. Jared Zelman and Dr. Pamela Chassin of Lakeville. Mr. Lesko is a son of Wendy Schaetzel and Matthew Lesko of Kensington, Md.

Ms. Zelman, 33, is the Director of States for the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C. After graduating from Connecticut College, she worked on both Barack Obama presidential campaigns. In 2012, she served as Director of Field Operations for Pennsylvania. 

During the Obama administration, she worked at the Council on Environmental Quality, as a Policy Assistant in the White House, and as a Senior Advisor and Director of Public Engagement at the Department of Labor. Most recently, she served as a National Regional Director for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Mr. Lesko, 33, graduated from the College of Wooster and received a law degree from Georgetown. He is the Director of National Organizing and Intergovernmental Outreach for the Children’s Defense Fund and the Director of the Children’s Defense Fund Action Council in Washington, D.C. 

He also served in both Obama presidential campaigns and worked in the Obama administration as the Domestic Director in the Presidential Personnel office, as an Assistant Counsel in the office of the White House Counsel and as Chief of Staff at the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education.

The couple met in 2008 in Portland, Ore., while working on the Obama presidential campaign. They live in Washington, D.C.   

Latest News

Angela Derrick Carabine

Angela Derrick Carabine

SHARON — Angela Derrick Carabine, 74, died May 17, 2025, at Vasser Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York. She was the wife of Michael Carabine and mother of Caitlin Carabine McLean.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated on June 6 at 11:00 a.m. at Saint Katri (St Bernards Church) Church. Burial will follow at St. Bernards Cemetery. A complete obituary can be found on the website of the Kenny Funeral home kennyfuneralhomes.com.

Revisiting ‘The Killing Fields’ with Sam Waterston

Revisiting ‘The Killing Fields’ with Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

Jennifer Almquist

On June 7 at 3 p.m., the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington will host a benefit screening of “The Killing Fields,” Roland Joffé’s 1984 drama about the Khmer Rouge and the two journalists, Cambodian Dith Pran and New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg, whose story carried the weight of a nation’s tragedy.

The film, which earned three Academy Awards and seven nominations — including one for Best Actor for Sam Waterston — will be followed by a rare conversation between Waterston and his longtime collaborator and acclaimed television and theater director Matthew Penn.

Keep ReadingShow less
film screening

The art of place: maps by Scott Reinhard

The art of place: maps by Scott Reinhard

Scott Reinhard, graphic designer, cartographer, former Graphics Editor at the New York Times, took time out from setting up his show “Here, Here, Here, Here- Maps as Art” to explain his process of working.Here he explains one of the “Heres”, the Hunt Library’s location on earth (the orange dot below his hand).

obin Roraback

Map lovers know that as well as providing the vital functions of location and guidance, maps can also be works of art.With an exhibition titled “Here, Here, Here, Here — Maps as Art,” Scott Reinhard, graphic designer and cartographer, shows this to be true. The exhibition opens on June 7 at the David M. Hunt Library at 63 Main St., Falls Village, and will be the first solo exhibition for Reinhard.

Reinhard explained how he came to be a mapmaker. “Mapping as a part of my career was somewhat unexpected.I took an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), the technological side of mapmaking, when I was in graduate school for graphic design at North Carolina State.GIS opened up a whole new world, new tools, and data as a medium to play with.”

Keep ReadingShow less
exhibit