Events
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Jake Heggie’s Opera, Moby-Dick: Moby-Dick Film Festival
Berkshire Athenaeum 1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesMoby-Dick (2012) San Francisco Opera with Jay Hunter Morris 6:30 at the Berkshire Athenaeum FREE Moby-Dick was a colossal failure when first published in 1851 but in the early 20th century it began taking its place among the most highly regarded works written in the 19th century; today it is seen as …
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Volunteer Party
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesOn Thursday, April 25 from 4:00 to 5:30 we will be welcoming our volunteers with a special party at Arrowhead. Our reliable volunteer tour guides, gift shop personnel, collections workers, archive staff and gardeners, publication associates, event hosts and emcees will hopefully be joined by potential new associates who look forward to meeting us and …
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Annual Meeting
Country Club of Pittsfield 639 South Street, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesThe Berkshire County Historical Society at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead will hold its annual meeting at 5:30pm on Wednesday, May 1 at The Country Club of Pittsfield. The dinner meeting will cost attendees $40 and will include the formal introduction of our new Executive Director, the election of officers of the Board of Trustees, a discussion …
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The Civil War Ballroom with The Victorian Quadrille Orchestra and the Small Planet Dancers
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesThe Civil War Ballroom with The Victorian Quadrille Orchestra and the Small Planet Dancers at 7:00pm in the historic barn at Arrowhead. Seating on the lawn. This is a FREE event, but donations are encouraged.
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Play: Mr. Noble Meloncholy
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesMaryann Sherman’s play, Mr. Noble Melancholy, starring John Trainor as Nathaniel Hawthorne. $20; $15 for members
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Play: Mr. Noble Meloncholy
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesMaryann Sherman’s play, Mr. Noble Melancholy, starring John Trainor as Nathaniel Hawthorne. $20; $15 for members
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Play: Mr. Noble Meloncholy
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesMaryann Sherman’s play, Mr. Noble Melancholy, starring John Trainor as Nathaniel Hawthorne. $20; $15 for members
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Poetry Release: Red Barn, volume 4
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesWe are releasing the fourth volume of RED BARN, our homegrown poetry anthology by poets who have met here all winter and spring to create new work. FREE
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Tea and Talk: Historic Lace
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesIrish lace expert Beverly Wolov will speak to the participants at a classic tea party about the lace collections at the Berkshire County Historical Society and answer questions about the customs and use, importance and provenance of lace in the mid-19th century. $20 includes tea and snacks.
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Mastheads Annual Reading
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesThe third annual reading of new work by the five Mastheads authors. This is a FREE event.
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