• Poor Herman – July 28

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    July 26 -- August 3 Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure

    $10 – $45
  • Poor Herman – July 31

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    July 26 -- August 3 Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure

    $10 – $45
  • Eighth Annual Moby-Dick Read-A-Thon

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Eighth Annual Moby-Dick Read-A-Thon – August 1- 4 “Call me Ishmael” and sign up to read part of Melville’s masterpiece on the site where it was written. Come on your

    $5
  • Melville Symposium

    Berkshire Athenaeum 1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    The Berkshire County Historical Society celebrates Herman Melville’s birthday with a symposium exploring a variety of topics including the Berkshires as inspiration, new research into his sources, and Arrowhead as

    FREE
  • Poor Herman – August 1

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    July 26 -- August 3 Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure

    $10 – $45
  • Poor Herman – August 2

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    July 26 -- August 3 Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure

    $10 – $45
  • Poor Herman – August 3

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    July 26 -- August 3 Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure

    $10 – $45
  • Monument Mountain Hike

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

    Hikers are invited to celebrate the day (August 5, 1850) Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne on a walk up Monument Mountain by joining BCHS for a similar hike and reading of

  • Hike to Balance Rock

    Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United States

    Take a leisurely stroll over uneven terrain to retrace the excursion Herman Melville took with Sarah Morewood and other friends in the summer of 1851 to Balance Rock in Balance

  • Billy Budd, Sailor Gala

    Tanglewood Learning Institute, Linde Center 3 W. Hawthorne Streeet, Lenox, MA, United States

    Join BCHS and collaborators Berkshire Opera Festival and Tanglewood Learning Institute at the Linde Center for Music and Learning for an evening of selections from the opera Billy Budd, Sailor

    $100