Events

On 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 …

The 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 …

The 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.

Maryann Sherman’s play, Mr. Noble Melancholy, starring John Trainor as Nathaniel Hawthorne. $20; $15 for members

Maryann Sherman’s play, Mr. Noble Melancholy, starring John Trainor as Nathaniel Hawthorne. $20; $15 for members

Maryann Sherman’s play, Mr. Noble Melancholy, starring John Trainor as Nathaniel Hawthorne. $20; $15 for members

We 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

 Irish 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.

The third annual reading of new work by the five Mastheads authors. This is a FREE event.

On Wednesday, July 3rd, at 7pm, come celebrate the eve of Herman Melville's 200th birthday with his great-great-grandson Peter Whittemore and the filmmakers behind The Act of Reading! We will 'sneak peek' the 87-minute long film in the Arrowhead barn in anticipation of its fall premiere and in honor of the author's bicentennial. The film takes the form of a 15 year-late book report/documentary …