Events
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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 …
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Arrowhead Community Day
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesEnjoy the fall season at Arrowhead with a food truck, music, hands-on activities, local history and preservation exhibits, Revolutionary War reenactors, ice cream from SoCo creamery, cider tastings, and more. …
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Becket Cemetery Walk
Becket Center Cemetery 55 YMCA Road, Becket, MA, United StatesTyringham resident John Hanson will give a walking tour of interesting gravestones in the Becket Center Cemetery. Hanson has been studying early New England gravestones and epitaphs for years and …
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Guided Photography Walk at Arrowhead
Arrowhead 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA, United StatesIn celebration of our exhibition on Berkshire photographer Arthur Palme, join Berkshire native photographer Bella Vendetta of Bella Luna Rosa Photo Studio on a guided group photo tour. Amateur, professional, …