Events

Click here for tickets. Pittsfield’s commercial brewing history was over 60 years in the making when, in 1886, Jacob Gimlich, one of the principals of the successful Pittsfield brewery firm Gimlich and White, declared people should “use beer for their refreshment and invigoration in a temperate, manly, proper way.” Join the Berkshire County Historical  Society …

Click here to purchase tickets. Birds are miraculous!  Especially in Spring when they dazzle us with bright, nuptial colors and serenade us with a profusion of happy song.  This Earth Day the Berkshire County Historical Society will host a bird walk at Herman Melville’s historic home, Arrowhead. Ben Nickley, Director of Berkshire Bird Observatory, will …

Celebrate BCHS's partnership with Berkshire Mountain Distillers and their Cultural Cocktail program with a pub crawl through downtown Pittsfield. We'll begin at Patrick's Pub and wind up at Methuselah Bar and Lounge where you can taste BCHS's Cultural Cocktail developed with Berkshire Mountain Distillers. Along the way we'll visit also visit Thistle and Mirth, Hot …

Local author Lorraine German discusses her book Soil and Shul in the Berkshires: The Untold Story of Sandisfield’s Jewish Farm Colony. Learn about the 1902 settlement in south Berkshire county and its final days when the congregation turned the synagogue over to the Sandisfield Arts Center in 1995. FREE Sponsored by MountainOne

Sailing Towards My Father is a one-man play about Herman Melville. The play chronicles Melville’s life from youth to old age, concentrating on his evolution as a writer and his complex relations with God, his parents and siblings, his wife and children, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Performed by Stephen Collins, written and directed by Carl A. …

Thursday, July 13, 7:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE RAIN OR SHINE ReWritten, created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds …

Friday, July 14, 7:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE RAIN OR SHINE ReWritten, created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds …

Thursday, July 15, 7:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE RAIN OR SHINE ReWritten, created and performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds …

Sunday, July 16, 7:30 pm PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE RAIN OR SHINE ReWritten, created band performed by Tom Truss and Matthew Cumbie, is an immersive performance that explores the intimate relationship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Through dance, live music, projection, art installations, and text, ReWritten moves in and around the grounds …

Join us at Herman Melville's Arrowhead for a spectacular evening of award-winning music, reading, and performance by The Mastheads' Summer Residents: Auyon Mukharji, Daniel Lavery, Elisa Gonzalez, Julia Mounsey, and Kristina Gaddy. FREE- BYOB and picnic  Sponsored by MountainOne, MCC, Housatonic Heritage