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May 2018
Arrowhead open for house tours
There is one guided tour each Saturday and Sunday at 11:15. The tour takes approximately one hour. Parking and admission to the property are free. Rates for guided tours of Melville's house are: adults $15.00, seniors $13.00, students $10.00 and children $8.00. Rates for self-guided tours are: adults $10; seniors $10; students and children $8.00. Members of the Berkshire County Historical Society receive FREE admission. Hands-on activities include sitting at Melville's work table to write your own masterpiece. (Full disclosure: it's not Melville's original table; location of…
Find out more »BCHS/Arrowhead Annual Meeting
It will be held on Saturday, May 5 at Arrowhead, with a culinary treat and a literary adventure! We will release Berkshire Victuals, a Literary Cookbook – 2018. Samples from the books contents provided by local chefs and fans of the Historical Society will be available and the house and grounds will be open for self-guided tours. Find out about the year ahead as we plan a busy and exciting season. We’ll open the doors at 3:00, have our meeting at 3:45, introduce the cookbook and let you…
Find out more »Arrowhead open for house tours
There is one guided tour each Saturday and Sunday at 11:15. The tour takes approximately one hour. Parking and admission to the property are free. Rates for guided tours of Melville's house are: adults $15.00, seniors $13.00, students $10.00 and children $8.00. Rates for self-guided tours are: adults $10; seniors $10; students and children $8.00. Members of the Berkshire County Historical Society receive FREE admission. Hands-on activities include sitting at Melville's work table to write your own masterpiece. (Full disclosure: it's not Melville's original table; location of…
Find out more »Arrowhead open for house tours
There is one guided tour each Saturday and Sunday at 11:15. The tour takes approximately one hour. Parking and admission to the property are free. Rates for guided tours of Melville's house are: adults $15.00, seniors $13.00, students $10.00 and children $8.00. Rates for self-guided tours are: adults $10; seniors $10; students and children $8.00. Members of the Berkshire County Historical Society receive FREE admission. Hands-on activities include sitting at Melville's work table to write your own masterpiece. (Full disclosure: it's not Melville's original table; location of…
Find out more »Arrowhead open for house tours
There is one guided tour each Saturday and Sunday at 11:15. The tour takes approximately one hour. Parking and admission to the property are free. Rates for guided tours of Melville's house are: adults $15.00, seniors $13.00, students $10.00 and children $8.00. Rates for self-guided tours are: adults $10; seniors $10; students and children $8.00. Members of the Berkshire County Historical Society receive FREE admission. Hands-on activities include sitting at Melville's work table to write your own masterpiece. (Full disclosure: it's not Melville's original table; location of…
Find out more »Arrowhead open for house tours
There is one guided tour each Saturday and Sunday at 11:15. The tour takes approximately one hour. Parking and admission to the property are free. Rates for guided tours of Melville's house are: adults $15.00, seniors $13.00, students $10.00 and children $8.00. Rates for self-guided tours are: adults $10; seniors $10; students and children $8.00. Members of the Berkshire County Historical Society receive FREE admission. Hands-on activities include sitting at Melville's work table to write your own masterpiece. (Full disclosure: it's not Melville's original table; location of…
Find out more »Arrowhead open for house tours
There is one guided tour each Saturday and Sunday at 11:15. The tour takes approximately one hour. Parking and admission to the property are free. Rates for guided tours of Melville's house are: adults $15.00, seniors $13.00, students $10.00 and children $8.00. Rates for self-guided tours are: adults $10; seniors $10; students and children $8.00. Members of the Berkshire County Historical Society receive FREE admission. Hands-on activities include sitting at Melville's work table to write your own masterpiece. (Full disclosure: it's not Melville's original table; location of…
Find out more »Arrowhead open for regular season!
Open 9:30 - 5, guided tours on the hour, last tour at 3; self-guided tour at 4.
Find out more »Melville in Love – world premiere of new film
At the Little Cinema, Berkshire Museum. $5.00 for BCHS/Arrowhead members A special screening of the film Melville in Love on Thursday, May 24, at 7 p.m. The event will include a Q&A session with Melville biographer Michael Shelden and the film’s director Seth Newton. Admission is $7.50; $5 for members of the Berkshire Museum and the Berkshire Historical Society. A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on…
Find out more »Billy Budd in the Breadbox – a BTG production
The new play from the Berkshire Theatre Group, based on the book by Arrowhead Writer-in-Residence Jana Laiz. In the big red barn. Reservations required; e-mail pr@berkshirehistory.org or buy online. $25/adults, $15/children
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