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Poor Herman – July 28
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesJuly 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 …
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Poor Herman – July 31
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesJuly 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 …
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Eighth Annual Moby-Dick Read-A-Thon
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesEighth 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 …
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Melville Symposium
Berkshire Athenaeum 1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesThe 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 …
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Poor Herman – August 1
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesJuly 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 …
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Poor Herman – August 2
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesJuly 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 …
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Poor Herman – August 3
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesJuly 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 …
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Monument Mountain Hike
Monument Mountain Rte 7, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesHikers 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 …
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Hike to Balance Rock
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesTake 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 …
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Billy Budd, Sailor Gala
Tanglewood Learning Institute, Linde Center 3 W. Hawthorne Streeet, Lenox, MA, United StatesJoin 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