Berkshire County Historical Society

Strange Fancies: The Ghosts of Broadtail, November 7
2025-11-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Country Club of Pittsfield, 639 South Street, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
This summer, BCHS presented Strange Fancies, an exploration of Pittsfield ghost lore, the supernatural influences on Herman Melville’s imagination, and the ghostly experiences reported at the Moby-Dick author’s former home led by Robert Oakes.
The tale continues this fall at the Country Club of Pittsfield. Once known as Broadhall, this building was the home of Melville’s friend, fellow writer Sarah Morewood, whom Melville often visited while he lived at Arrowhead.
And some say he may still be calling. Indeed, both Melville’s ghost and that of Mrs. Morewood are said to haunt the house, as well as others yet unidentified. Many have visited the property throughout its long history, including Alexander Hamilton, President John Tyler, famous literati, and formerly enslaved people. And many have died there, including Mrs. Morewood, as well as seventeen victims of a 1910 ice house explosion, described as the worst disaster in Pittsfield history.
Join Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires and ghost tour guide at Ventfort Hall and The Mount, as he leads you through this historic Pittsfield property, sharing accounts of sightings and other strange encounters reported by those who work there. Explore this unfolding mystery, and discover for yourself whether Melville or Morewood—or others unknown—are haunting the house next door to Arrowhead.
Please note: This tour involves climbing two flights of stairs.
Tickets will be available October 1 by using the BOOK NOW button; $25 for BCHS members, $30 for non-members.

Strange Fancies: The Ghosts of Broadhall - October 25
2025-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Country Club of Pittsfield, 639 South Street, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
SOLD OUT – USE THE BOOK NOW BUTTON TO PURCHASE TICKETS FOR NOVEMBER 7
This summer, BCHS presented Strange Fancies, an exploration of Pittsfield ghost lore, the supernatural influences on Herman Melville’s imagination, and the ghostly experiences reported at the Moby-Dick author’s former home led by Robert Oakes.
The tale continues this fall at the Country Club of Pittsfield. Once known as Broadhall, this building was the home of Melville’s friend, fellow writer Sarah Morewood, whom Melville often visited while he lived at Arrowhead.
And some say he may still be calling. Indeed, both Melville’s ghost and that of Mrs. Morewood are said to haunt the house, as well as others yet unidentified. Many have visited the property throughout its long history, including Alexander Hamilton, President John Tyler, famous literati, and formerly enslaved people. And many have died there, including Mrs. Morewood, as well as seventeen victims of a 1910 ice house explosion, described as the worst disaster in Pittsfield history.
Join Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires and ghost tour guide at Ventfort Hall and The Mount, as he leads you through this historic Pittsfield property, sharing accounts of sightings and other strange encounters reported by those who work there. Explore this unfolding mystery, and discover for yourself whether Melville or Morewood—or others unknown—are haunting the house next door to Arrowhead.
Please note: This tour involves climbing two flights of stairs.
Tickets will be available October 1 by using the BOOK NOW button; $25 for BCHS members, $30 for non-members.

Strange Fancies: The Ghosts of Broadhall
2025-10-24 07:00 - 21:00 | Country Club of Pittsfield, 639 South Street, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
SOLD OUT – A second date has been added — October 25.
This summer, BCHS presented Strange Fancies, an exploration of Pittsfield ghost lore, the supernatural influences on Herman Melville’s imagination, and the ghostly experiences reported at the Moby-Dick author’s former home led by Robert Oakes.
The tale continues this fall at the Country Club of Pittsfield. Once known as Broadhall, this building was the home of Melville’s friend, fellow writer Sarah Morewood, whom Melville often visited while he lived at Arrowhead.
And some say he may still be calling. Indeed, both Melville’s ghost and that of Mrs. Morewood are said to haunt the house, as well as others yet unidentified. Many have visited the property throughout its long history, including Alexander Hamilton, President John Tyler, famous literati, and formerly enslaved people. And many have died there, including Mrs. Morewood, as well as seventeen victims of a 1910 ice house explosion, described as the worst disaster in Pittsfield history.
Join Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires and ghost tour guide at Ventfort Hall and The Mount, as he leads you through this historic Pittsfield property, sharing accounts of sightings and other strange encounters reported by those who work there. Explore this unfolding mystery, and discover for yourself whether Melville or Morewood—or others unknown—are haunting the house next door to Arrowhead.
Please note: This tour involves climbing two flights of stairs.
Tickets will be available October 1 by using the BOOK NOW button; $25 for BCHS members, $30 for non-members.

Grandmother’s Wedding Dress
2025-10-22 17:30 - 19:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
A small late-nineteenth century scrapbook filled with fabric swatches reveals a story of fabrics and fashion in nineteenth-century Vermont, as told by three generations of an ordinary family. This talk by historian Lorraine German uses the swatches and clothing information found in the scrapbook to tell the history of textiles in New England and the fashions of the period.
Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets; $15 for BCHS members, $20 non members
Lorraine German and her late husband Steve established Mad River Antiques, LLC in 2001, with a concentration on 18th, 19th, and 20th century Americana and decorative arts. She has been a guest speaker at antiques shows, museums, and antiques organizations, where she has covered a variety of topics, including stoneware, redware, quilts, Christmas ornaments, and Santa Claus. Lorraine is also the author of Soil and Shul in the Berkshires: The Untold Story of Sandisfield’s Jewish Farm Colony, published in 2018.

Author to Author: Laurie Gwen Shapiro in Conversation with Debby Applegate
2025-10-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
The art of documenting an event or person’s life, whether in film or in print, is the subject of this conversation between author Debby Applegate and author/filmmaker Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Slate, and others. Shapiro is the 2021 winner of the Damn History Award for “The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes” for The New Yorker and gold medallion winner in the People Profiles category for the Silurian Press Club’s 77th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. She is the author of The Stowaway a best seller and an Indie next selection. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at The NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in the graduate program. She is author of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon.
Debby Applegate’s first book, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, her riveting account of the famous 19th-century preacher, abolitionist and Berkshire resident, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Her second book, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice for Best Books of 2021, and won an Earphones Award for best audiobooks of 2021.
Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets; $15 BCHS members, $20 non-members.

Fall Fest at Arrowhead
2025-10-11 10:00 - 16:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
Berkshire Museum and the Berkshire County Historical Society are proud to present “Fall Fest”, a FREE all-ages event at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead in Pittsfield, Massachusetts! This event will celebrate the season with a variety of crafts, games, and hands-on activities for children and adults to enjoy, as well as offering guests the opportunity to unwind and enjoy the fall colors on the scenic grounds at Arrowhead.
Participating Organizations:
Baseball in the Berkshires
Berkshire Athenaeum
Berkshire Museum
Berkshire Be-Witches
The Bidwell House Museum
Berkshire Cider Project will be on site to offer an all-ages cider pressing activity and samples of their local hard ciders for guests 21 years of age and over.
Stroll along the fields at Arrowhead to explore The Mastheads five sculptural-architectural studios, each inspired by a writer who lived or worked in the Berkshires.
Scheduled Activities
10:00 am – 4:00 pm: Free hayrides provided by Four Seasons Stables
12:00 – 2:00 pm: Face Painting by BTC Entertainment
2:00 – 4:00 pm: BTC Entertainment presents Magic Show and Balloon Twisting by Kapt. Kraw
Lawn games provided by Berkshire Museum and the Berkshire County Historical Society.
Tours of Arrowhead, Herman Melville’s historic home, are available by ticket. Purchase your ticket by using the BOOK NOW button.

Artist Talk and Exhibit Opening - Francesca Olsen
2025-10-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
To celebrate the opening of What Quilts Reflect Back to Us, Francesca Olsen’s showcase of quilts from the BCHS collection as well as her own creations, BCHS hosts a “show and tell” event and artist talk. Olsen will talk about the BCHS collection, her own quilting, and her residency experience at Arrowhead. Quilters are invited to bring and share their work in five-minute bursts; pre-registration is required for this portion of the talk. Click here for more information or to register.
FREE EVENT

A Whale Ship was My Yale College and My Harvard: Herman Melville's Whaling Years
2025-10-08 17:30 - 19:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
In late December 1840, adrift in his personal life, 21-year-old Herman Melville arrived in New Bedford, Massachusetts, preparing to embark on a South Seas whaling voyage. His diverse experiences and adventures in the course of the ensuing nearly four years would profoundly shape him and his writings. During this time, young Melville toiled as a foremast hand in the uniquely demanding and colorful social world of a whaleship on three different vessels and also served for more than a year as a seaman aboard a United States Navy frigate. His odyssey took him to far-flung South American ports, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, and the Sandwich Islands. He lived among the indigenous people in the Marquesas Islands and also witnessed the early impacts of colonialism and Christian missionary work in the Pacific world.
This talk by Arrowhead docent and researcher Peter Hacunda will explore Melville’s life during the early 1840s, consider how it shaped him and why a whaleship truly was Melville’s “Yale College and [his] Harvard.”
Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets: $15 BCHS Members, $20 non-members.
About Peter Hacunda
After a decades-long international business career, twenty years ago Peter Hacunda began following his passion for public history becoming a docent with the Alcatraz Night Tour program. Upon returning East, he led tours at Newport’s Gilded Age mansions and served as “mate” on a duck boat in Providence. For fifteen years he volunteered at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park where he led walking tours, including “In Ishmael’s Footsteps: Herman Melville’s New Bedford.” Peter is an alumnus of Mystic Seaport’s Munson Institute for American Maritime Studies and holds a Masters Degree in History from Providence College. In recent years, as a panelist at the American History Association Conference, he explored maritime perspectives on the California Gold Rush (2020) as well as how nineteenth-century British aristocrats helped preserve America’s historical and cultural legacies (2023). For the past two seasons as an Arrowhead docent, Peter delights in connecting visitors with matters

The Noble Train Arrives
2025-09-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
The “noble train of artillery,” also known as the Knox Expedition, was an expedition led by Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox to transport sixty tons of heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army camps outside Boston—a journey of 300 miles—during the winter of 1775–76.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of this monumental journey, which passed through Berkshire county, BCHS welcomes costumed living-history interpreters from Fort Ticonderoga to Arrowhead. Learn about the expedition and how oxen were used to pull the cannons. Hear from interpreters portraying frontier traders, oxen drivers, timber men, carpenters, blacksmiths, and merchants what it was like to be part of this historic event.
FREE event
This event is supported by The Feigenbaum Foundation, Greylock Federal Credit Union, and Housatonic Heritage.

Strange Fancies: Tales of Haunted Pittsfield
2025-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, 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 Hall. In addition to Pittsfield ghost stories, Oakes will discuss Herman Melville’s own “strange fancies,” and the ghost writings of his friend and frequent Arrowhead visitor Nathaniel Hawthorne. The talk will be followed by a lantern-lit tour o Arrowhead.
Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets; $20 for BCHS members, $25 for non-members
About Robert Oakes
Robert Oakes is an author, teacher, storyteller, and performing songwriter. He has written three books, The Ghostly Tales of the Berkshires (2023), Ghosts of Northwestern New Jersey (2022), and Ghosts of the Berkshires (2020), all published by Arcadia Publishing. He has also released numerous recordings of original songs. Since 2010, Robert has led immersive ghost storytelling experiences at historic locations in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, including Ventfort Hall and Edith Wharton’s The Mount. He has also given talks and readings and led a writing workshop at Arrowhead. He has appeared on Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, Jeff Belanger’s New England Legends series on PBS, and The Apple Seed show on BYUradio and has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Berkshire Eagle, and numerous other media outlets.

Ice Glen Walk
2025-09-13 11:00 - 12:30 | 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, they also hiked Ice Glen, a small but stunning glacial ravine in Stockbridge.
Berkshire County Historical Society volunteers will lead a leisurely stroll through Laurel Park, across the Housatonic River, and up into the hills of Ice Glen walking through giant boulder fields and enjoying cool ravine scenery!
Adventurous hikers can venture into the boulders and crevices, while others can return for a leisurely walk along the river.
FREE event.
Meet at Stockbridge Town Hall; wear sturdy hiking shoes or boots, bring water and bug repellent. In the event of rain, the event will be held September 14.
This event is supported by Housatonic Heritage. Learn more about them here.

Paradise or Plight? Melville and Berkshire Industry
2025-09-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, 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 evening begins with a dramatic reading of Melville’s short story The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids. First published in 1855, the story combines two sketches, one set in the center of London’s legal industry and the other in a New England paper factory (possibly based on The Old Red Mill in Dalton, Massachusetts, where Melville had visited).
John Dickson will then lead a discussion of the story and how Melville’s views on Industrialization influenced Berkshire County’s industrial history followed by a Q & A.
Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets; $15 BCHS members, $20 non-members.
Marcus Kearns
For the last decade, Marcus has been in and out of NYC where he was staying busy as a props carpenter for Broadway, production manager for everything from Redbull to Rhianna, & performing whenever he had the chance. He moved back to the Berkshires in 2021 and worked as Director of Production & Operations for Barrington Stage Company until 2024 when he left to be a full time dad. Marcus most recently appeared on stage in ‘Circus & the Bard’ at Shakespeare & Company.
John Dickson
John Dickson serves as Chair of the Pittsfield Historical Commission and was a former board member of the Berkshire Historical Society. He has authored a local history book, Berkshire County’s Industrial Heritage, on the 19th century mills in this corner of Massachusetts. He received a master’s degree in public history where he completed a thesis on the Berkshire Athenaeum.

Strange Fancies: Tales of Haunted Pittsfield - August 29
2025-08-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, 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 Hall. In addition to Pittsfield ghost stories, Oakes will discuss Herman Melville’s own “strange fancies,” and the ghost writings of his friend and frequent Arrowhead visitor Nathaniel Hawthorne. The talk will be followed by a lantern-lit tour o Arrowhead.
Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets; $20 for BCHS members, $25 for non-members
This program is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
About Robert Oakes
Robert Oakes is an author, teacher, storyteller, and performing songwriter. He has written three books, The Ghostly Tales of the Berkshires (2023), Ghosts of Northwestern New Jersey (2022), and Ghosts of the Berkshires (2020), all published by Arcadia Publishing. He has also released numerous recordings of original songs. Since 2010, Robert has led immersive ghost storytelling experiences at historic locations in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, including Ventfort Hall and Edith Wharton’s The Mount. He has also given talks and readings and led a writing workshop at Arrowhead. He has appeared on Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, Jeff Belanger’s New England Legends series on PBS, and The Apple Seed show on BYUradio and has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Berkshire Eagle, and numerous other media outlets.

Strange Fancies: Tales of Haunted Pittsfield - August 15
2025-08-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States

Monument Mountain Hike
2025-08-03 09:00 - 11:30 | 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 summit and share sparkling wine (they had champagne). The guided hike takes approximately 2 ½ hours and is appropriate for families. Hikers should meet at the Monument Mountain Reservation Parking lot on Route 7 and should be prepared with their own water, proper footwear, hiking gear and bug repellent. Parking is free for members of the Trustees of Reservations only. Free event, 9 am.
This event is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council

Billy Budd Audiobook Launch
2025-08-01 17:30 - 18:30 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, 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 to selections from the book and toast to the work that brought Herman out of obscurity when it was published in 1924. FREE
Learn the story of how Paul Giamatti came to record this book as told by him to BCHS’s own Jana Laiz.
This event is sponsored by Guido’s Fresh Marketplace and Starbucks (Lee Massachusetts).

The Mastheads Summer Finale
2025-07-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, 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 support public programming, including poetry workshops in Pittsfield Public Schools.
This event is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Bird Banding with Berkshire Bird Observatory - July 31
2025-07-31 08:00 - 10:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
Bird 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 wild birds in their natural habitat. Arrowhead’s woods, fields and shrub land make it an ideal site to monitor a broad range of breeding bird species. Join the BBO researchers as they leverage the wonder of a bird in the hand to spark a curiosity about the natural world while showcasing ecological interactions that connect us all.
Free, drop in event, weather permitting
This recurring event takes place on:
June 5, 12, 26; July 3, 10, 24, 31
This event is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council

Open Studio with Francesca Olsen
2025-07-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, 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 event
Francesca Olsen is a quilter, writer, and consultant. Her creative work focuses on storytelling, heritage, ritual, magic, and the power and significance held in objects and stories. Olsen is a connector whose work aims to build community by holding space for others and creating a dialogue around legacy, history, and the symbolism we assign to it.
She is the recipient of a 2024-25 Artists at Work grant, a WPA-inspired program that funds a year of artist work with community organizations. North Adams Project grant via MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists, a 2021 grant from the North Adams Artist Impact Coalition, and a 2022 grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s Martha Boschen Porter Fund. She has reached hundreds of artists via digital marketing talks for various arts and culture organizations across New England.
This event is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Strange Fancies: Tales of Haunted Pittsfield - Jully 25
2025-07-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States

Bird Banding with Berkshire Bird Observatory - July 24
2025-07-24 08:00 - 10:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States

Public Workshop Performance
2025-07-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
Performer, playwright and great, great, great grand daughter of Herman Melville returns to Arrowhead to “talk back” to THE CONFIDENCE MAN, the last published and completed novel by Melville in his lifetime. Set on a steamboat cruising down Mississippi, Doss jumps aboard, probing this text to grapple with her own encounters with “Confidence Men”, not to mention her own flagging confidence, and what the hell Melville is really getting at in his perhaps strangest, most provocative and perplexing work. Still in the larval phase of development, Doss asks you, “Do you need to read THE CONFIDENCE MAN?” This one-person performance (hopefully) offers a healthy mixture of insight, ignorance and some stabs at hilarity. Come cheer her on (or boo her off) for one night only at Arrowhead.
Use theBOOK NOW button to purchase tickets: $15 members, $20 non-members

This event is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council

Showcase: Readings and Reception
2025-07-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
From July 13-17 writers attended a playwriting intensive with with great, great, great granddaughter of Herman Melville and playwright Elizabeth Doss. Join us for a free reception and readings of site-specific works created during this workshop.
This event is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Strange Fancies: Tales of Haunted Pittsfield - July 13
2025-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States

Sea Shanties with Alex Harvey and Shinbone Alley
2025-07-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
Alex Harvey is an old-world folklorist who performs street ballads and songs of the sea in a project he calls Shinbone Alley. At his performances listeners learn to celebrate the haunting intercultural exchange of 18th and 19th century maritime music – whose ingredients travelled from the furthest corners of the globe to be remade and stitched anew by sailors of every shade and shape at port and at sea. By teaching the audience to join in on most of the tunes in his concerts, Harvey and his Shinbone Alley builds bridges of time through communal singing. From Sea Shanties to Broadsheet ballads to Come-All-Ye’s to Last Good Nights to Hard Luck Satires to Lovesick Dirges to Whaling Serenades – this music was meant as the earliest form of group therapy. And so it is again – a sepia-toned balm for our topsy-turvy time.

Come early and picnic on the grounds and step into the tavern and warm up those swashbuckling vocal chords with hard ciders from Berkshire Cider Project and ale from Hot Plate Brewing for sale during the event.
Tickets available by using the BOOK NOW button – $15 BCHS Members, $20 nonmembers

Bird Banding with Berkshire Bird Observatory - July 10
2025-07-10 08:00 - 10:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States

Bird Banding with Berkshire Bird Observatory - July 3
2025-07-03 08:00 - 10:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States

Family Bird Activities
2025-06-26 08:00 - 14:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
We’re teaming up with Berkshire Bird Observatory, Berkshire Museum, and Berkshire Natural Resources Council for avian-themed fun. This free event will feature unique hands-on
activities for all ages, guided hikes, demonstrations, and more, while teaching
visitors about local bird populations in the Berkshires.
The program is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Bird Banding with Berkshire Bird Observatory - June 26
2025-06-26 08:00 - 10:00 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States

Historic Songs of the American Revolution
2025-06-25 17:30 - 18:30 | Arrowhead, 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 01201, United States
The history of the American Revolution is detailed with many battles, conferences, and personalities. But it was also a time of patriotism, inspiration, and song. This program presented by award winning singer/songwriters Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle includes historic songs performed with a variety of instruments. The duo will provide a brief narrative and anecdotes of the history of the songs as well as of the war of American independence.
Cosby Gibson and Tom Staudle are award-winning songwriters and singers living near the Adirondacks in upstate New York. As a duo, they have been performing for fifteen years, and tour both regionally and nationally. Together they play originals and favorites with a variety of instruments such as guitar, fiddle, banjo, dulcimer, and harmonica, and in many settings such as festivals, concert series, theaters, livestreams, and community events.
Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets: $15 BCHS member and $20 non-members
This event is sponsored by Housatonic Heritage, Feigenbaum Foundation, Hill Engineering, Lee Bank, Massachusetts Cultural Council, MountainOne Bank, and Pittsfield Cooperative Bank.
