Events
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Annual Monument Mountain Hike
Monument Mountain Rte 7, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesOn Sunday morning, take a walk up Monument Mountain in Great Barrington to celebrate the historic meeting of Melville and Hawthorne. It's sponsored by the Trustees of the Reservations, the stewards of Monument Mountain, and includes a reading of William Cullen Bryant's historic poem about the mountain as well as a champagne toast.
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MEET DELILAH!
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesCommunity Day Celebration Weekend: 10am-5pm Due to the forecast, Delilah will be swimming into Pittsfield on Sunday from 10am-4pm Celebrate Herman Melville’s 200th birthday with a FREE event at Arrowhead! Melanie Mowinski will demonstrate letterpress printing, 11am-1pm Also, for kids of all ages, we will have an inflatable bounce house! Bring a picnic and …
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Poetry Reading: Pequod Poems
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesWilda Morris, poet, reads from her book "Pequod Poems" at Arrowhead, in the barn, at 6:30pm. Copies of her book will also be for sale that evening. Author of "Szechuan Shrimp and Fortune Cookies: Poems from a Chinese Restaurant" and other books, she is a former President of the Illinois State Poetry Society. She is …
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Book Release: Cement Dust
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesTuesday, August 27, J. Peter Bergman will read from his new novel, "Cement Dust," at Arrowhead, in the barn, at 6:30pm. Copies of the book are on sale in the gift shop at Arrowhead. Author of the Charles Dickens Award winning collection of short stories, "Counterpoints," this is his second published novel. Kirkus Reviews said, …
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Architecture and Landscape at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesDue to inclement weather, the walk has been POSTPONED until Saturday, June 11, at 11am. See you then! Veteran tour guide John Dickson and Executive Director Lesley Herzberg lead an enlightening walk through Arrowhead and the surrounding grounds. John Dickson will provide an overview and evolution of the architectural features of the building from the …
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Spring Bird Walk
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesJoin Rene Wendell, president of the Hoffmann Bird Club for a spring migration bird walk. This will be a gentle, slow hike around Arrowhead’s fields and forests appropriate for beginners and experienced birders alike. We will be looking for newly arriving spring migrants such as warbler and flycatcher species like yellow warbler, blackburnian warbler and …
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Moby-Dick Monologue
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesHerman Melville learned about the art of soliloquy from his reading of Shakespeare and after reading the Bard, he re-wrote his whaling epic. Actor and educator Stephen Collins expands on this tradition by performing monologues from Melville’s expansive novel. This performance features the musings of Ishmael, Father Mapple, Captain Peleg, Starbuck, and Ahab. FREE This …
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Architecture and Landscape at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesVeteran tour guide John Dickson and Executive Director Lesley Herzberg lead an enlightening walk through Arrowhead and the surrounding grounds. John Dickson will provide an overview and evolution of the architectural features of the building from the 1780s to the present. This talk is followed by Lesley Herzberg’s walk through the north field to discuss …
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Hester Blum on Moby-Dick
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesMoby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Hester Blum, leading Melville scholar and editor of the new Oxford World’s Classic edition of Moby-Dick, discusses these moments and her additions and annotations of Melville's best-known novel. Themes will include the novel’s elasticity and continued …
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Book Talk: Thirty-Five Days To Baltimore
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesJoin Writer-In-Residence Emeritus, Jana Laiz and Author Alexis Portillo as they celebrate the release of their new book, Thirty-Five Days To Baltimore. This bilingual book explores topics of migration, immigration, poverty, and hope, through the story of an unaccompanied minor, as he makes his way from Honduras to Baltimore, ultimately arriving in the Berkshires. Part …
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