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  • children’s workshop – fairy fun!

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Bring your fairy wings to a children's workshop on Sunday, August 13, from 1 to 3:00. Artist Betsy Baczek will demonstrate how to make fairy crowns, wings, wands, wearable gnome hats.  $5.00 donation for materials.  At Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield.  Questions - please e-mail fairies@berkshirehistory.org.

    $5

  • Fairy Tea and Talk, with Jana Laiz

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Join Jana Laiz, Arrowhead's writer-in-residence. Jana will tell fascinating tales about fairies while you enjoy a special tea with scones, clotted cream, strawberries, and tea.  Historical Society members, $10; kids, $5; non-yet members, $20.  For reservations, e-mail fairies@berkshirehistory.org   This event is for the entire family.

  • Fairy House village opens

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Grand opening - all day Saturday August 19.  See artist-created fairy houses!  Refreshments. Fee to see the village includes a guided tour of Arrowhead (on the hour 10 - 5; last tour at 4). Fee for special tour, led by Fairy Queen WindRose Morris.  WindRoses's tours of village between 4 and 5.

  • writing workshop

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Melville was inspired by Arrowhead - and you can be, too!  Join writer-in-residence Jana Laiz for a writing session at one of the most beautiful places in the Berkshires.  With writing prompts we will write about our own feelings of place. For information or to make reservations, melville@berkshirehistory.org

    $20

  • Cancelled – Lecture: Professor Dennis Patrick Slattery, “Melville and the Personal Myth”

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    This lecture has been cancelled due to illness. Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick offers both a way of understanding what has generally been called the greatest novel of the American myth while simultaneously exploring one’s own personal myth. Its added feature is that it is an interactive book in …

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    Free

  • Author Series: Adriana Millenaar Brown

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Brown will discuss her book about her father, Adrianus Millenaar, a Dutch farmer turned diplomat in WWII.   FREE.

  • The “Herman” Plays: “Hawthorne & Melville”

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Staged reading of "Hawthorne & Melville," by Carl A. Rossi, directed by J. Peter Bergman.  Kirk Jackson as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mel Cobb as Herman Melville. In the big red barn at Arrowhead.

    $20

  • Fairies and Foam Beerfest – cancelled

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  Please come see the fairy village any day until October 15. Join the revels, ..."where fairies dance."  Faery Queen WindRose Morris, Piper Nancy Tunicliffe, and more!  Beer tastings in a hand-crafted mug created for the occasion. Costumes encouraged!  Reservations and questions - fairiesberkshirehistory.org

    $75