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5:30 pm
Paradise or Plight? Melville and Berkshire Industry
$15 – $20
Actor Marcus Kearns and historian John Dickson team up for a program discussing Herman Melville’s influence on industry in Berkshire County during the nineteenth century. Old Red Mill The evening begins with a dramatic reading of Melville’s short story The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids. First published in 1855, the story …
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