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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 in us all. Poor Herman unearths the life of Herman Melville, who arguably wrote America’s best and worst novels back-to-back in 1850 and 1851. The production considers …
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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 in us all. Poor Herman unearths the life of Herman Melville, who arguably wrote America’s best and worst novels back-to-back in 1850 and 1851. The production considers …
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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 own or bring a group to read with us until we finish the book. August 1 - 10 am-2 pm; all other days 10 …
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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 a source of inspiration for contemporary writers and performers. Lectures take place at the Berkshire Athenaeum (1 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA) and are free and …
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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 in us all. Poor Herman unearths the life of Herman Melville, who arguably wrote America’s best and worst novels back-to-back in 1850 and 1851. The production considers …
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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 in us all. Poor Herman unearths the life of Herman Melville, who arguably wrote America’s best and worst novels back-to-back in 1850 and 1851. The production considers …
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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 in us all. Poor Herman unearths the life of Herman Melville, who arguably wrote America’s best and worst novels back-to-back in 1850 and 1851. The production considers …
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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 local poet William Cullen Bryant’s Monument Mountain. The guided hike takes approximately 2 ½ hours and is appropriate for families. Hikers should meet at the …
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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 Rock State Park within Pittsfield State Forest. Explore the history of the site and how it made its way into Melville’s prose. Finally, we will …
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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 paired with readings by Ryan Winkles from the classic novella. This 1951 opera is scored by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by authors E. M. …
$100