• Do You Need to Read the Confidence Man – July 17

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Performer, playwright and great, great, great grand daughter of Herman Melville Elizabeth Doss returns to Arrowhead to “talk back” to The Confidence Man, the last published and completed novel by

    $20 – $25
  • Do You Need to Read the Confidence Man – July 18

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Performer, playwright and great, great, great grand daughter of Herman Melville Elizabeth Doss returns to Arrowhead to “talk back” to The Confidence Man, the last published and completed novel by

    $20 – $25
  • Bird Banding – July 23

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 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

    FREE
  • The Mastheads Lantern Party

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    From July 7-July 28, five writers across disciplines, from throughout the country, have been invited to live in Pittsfield and work in The Mastheads studios at Arrowhead. BYO picnic to

    $10
  • Bird Banding – July 30

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, 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

    FREE
  • Alex Harvey and Shinbone Alley

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Celebrate Herman Melville's birthday with a rousing evening of sea shanties and street blades performed bu Arrowhead favorite Alex Harvey and Shinbone Alley.  You'll be encouraged to sing along and

  • Monument Mountain Hike

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

    Celebrate the day (August 4, 1850) Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne on a hike up Monument Mountain by joining BCHS for a similar hike and reading of local poet William Cullen

    FREE
  • Marking the Knox Trail

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    BCHS welcomes historian Ben Haley to discuss the fascinating, but not well-known story of the creation of the Knox Trail. The six-week endeavor by twenty-five year-old Henry Knox to haul

    $10 – $15