Author: Sally Majewski

Read The Berkshire Eagle’s interview with playwright Elizabeth Doss in which she discusses Poor Herman. Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets. 

BCHS is celebrating the centennial of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor. Read about the novella and lans to commemorate its publication here.

Celebrate the centennial of Billy Budd, Sailor with a gala evening at Tanglewood’s Linde Center.  Enjoy selections from Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd opera performed by Berkshire Opera Festival and readings from Melville’s classic novella.
More information here.

Join BCHS for an afternoon of presentations by Melville scholars. Complete details here.

Read this great piece by best selling author and Pittsfield native Mark Vanhoenacker.

Celebrate the haunting intercultural exchange of 18th and 19th century maritime music. The grounds are open for picnicking this evening.
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Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure in us all. 
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Call me Ishmael and sign up to read part of Melville’s masterpiece on the site where it was written. Details here.
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Celebrate the day (August 5, 1850) Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne on a walk up Monument Mountain by joining BCHS for a similar hike.  Details here.