Events
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Arrowhead Opening Day
Arrowhead 780 Holmes, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesCelebrate Arrowhead’s summer opening with free fun for the whole family. Activities include free wagon rides, story hour featuring children’s books based on classic Melville tales, silk screening demonstrations with …
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Author Talk – Gail Gelburd
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesThe Berkshire County Historical Society welcomes Gail Gelburd to Arrowhead for a talk about her new book, The Liberation of Sue Moody: Slaying Dragons. Based on the journals and letters …
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Author Talk – Barbara Viniar
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesBarbara Viniar, author of Little Bird, will discuss her unexpected path to writing historical fiction, inspired by an old photograph of her grandmother. She will talk about combining research and imagination …
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Strange Fancies – Stories of Hauntings and Ghostly Inspiration at Arrowhead, Home of Herman Melville – May 29
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesEVENT CANCELLED Well-known ghost tour guide Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires, will discuss the supernatural influences on the imagination of author Herman Melville, as well as the ghostly …
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Author Talk – Julie Dobrow
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesAuthor, biographer and Tufts University professor Julie Dobrow’s new book, Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage, tells the complicated story of the lives …
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Bird Banding – June 4
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesBird banding at Arrowhead allows visitors an up-close opportunity to see birds and watch the process of bird banding. Bird banding allows researchers the opportunity to study a wide array of …
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Melville in Downtown Pittsfield
Berkshire Athenaeum 1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesHerman Melville didn't just stay holed up in his study at Arrowhead. He went to the center of Pittsfield frequently, attended church there and lived off South Street for one …
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Authors talk and book signing – Ye Trodden Path
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesThe Berkshire County Historical Society’s Melville Press celebrates the publication of Ye Trodden Path, a collaboration of local historians and authors Bernard Drew of Great Barrington; Gary Leveille of the …
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Bird Banding – June 11
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesBird banding at Arrowhead allows visitors an up-close opportunity to see birds and watch the process of bird banding. Bird banding allows researchers the opportunity to study a wide array of …
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Downtown Pittsfield Walk – Neighbors and Strangers
Berkshire Athenaeum 1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesLed by Cynthia Farr Brown, Neighbors and Strangers links the "big story" of America's rapidly changing population during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as European immigrants flocked to the …
$15 – $20