• Open Studio with Francesca Olsen

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Quilter Francesca Olsen hosts an open studio n Arrowhead’s historic piazza as part of the Berkshire Artists Residency Program. She will talk about her craft and demonstrate her technique.  FREE

    FREE
  • The Mastheads Summer Finale

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Picnic on the lawn of Arrowhead’s historic barn as The Mastheads eighth-annual summer residents perform new fiction, poetry, and theatre created in the studios this month. $10-$20 donation suggested to

    Donations suggested
  • Billy Budd Audiobook Launch

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    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

  • Monument Mountain Hike

    Monument Mountain Rte 7, Great Barrington, MA, United States

    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

    FREE
  • Paradise or Plight? Melville and Berkshire Industry

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    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

    $15 – $20
  • Ice Glen Walk

    Ice Glen Stockbridge, United States

    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,

    FREE
  • Strange Fancies: Tales of Haunted Pittsfield

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    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

    $20 – $25