Events

Join us at Arrowhead to celebrate Herman’s birthday and the launch of a brand-new audiobook  Billy Budd, Sailor, read by Paul Giamatti. We’ll have light refreshments, drinks, and cake. Listen …

Join Berkshire County Historical Society and celebrate the day (August 5, 1850) when Melville met Hawthorne on a hike up Monument Mountain. Read the poem they read together at the …

Join us for an evening of Pittsfield ghost lore in this talk by Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires and ghost tour guide at The Mount and Ventfort …

Join us for an evening of Pittsfield ghost lore in this talk by Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires and ghost tour guide at The Mount and Ventfort …

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 …

On August 5, 1850, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met and hiked to the top of Monument Mountain beginning what would be a long and close friendship.  On that day, …

Join us for an evening of Pittsfield ghost lore in this talk by Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires and ghost tour guide at The Mount and Ventfort …

The “noble train of artillery,” also known as the Knox Expedition, was an expedition led by Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox to transport sixty tons of heavy weaponry that had …

In late December 1840, adrift in his personal life, 21-year-old Herman Melville arrived in New Bedford, Massachusetts, preparing to embark on a South Seas whaling voyage. His diverse experiences and …

To celebrate the opening of What Quilts Reflect Back to Us, Francesca Olsen's showcase of quilts from the BCHS collection as well as her own creations, BCHS hosts a “show and …