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SUMMARY:Architecture and Landscape at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead
DESCRIPTION:Join long-time tour guide John Dickson and Executive Director Lesley Herzberg for a walk around Arrowhead’s grounds.  John will provide an overview of the architectural features of the building and discuss its evolution from the 1780s to the present. This talk is followed by Lesley Herzberg’s walk through the north field where the Melville family cultivated the farm and gardens in the 19th century. Her talk will focus on Arrowhead’s cultural landscape. (Rain date: Sunday\, Sept 18\, 11am).\nThis free event is sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union and is presented as part of the Housatonic Heritage Walks program.
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/architecture-and-landscape-at-herman-melvilles-arrowhead-3/
LOCATION:Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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SUMMARY:1930s Civilian Conservation Corps Camps: The Genesis of Our State Parks System
DESCRIPTION:Local historian and author Bernard A. Drew will present a history of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Forest Army of the 1930s\, a national program to provide employment\, security\, and training to young men during the height of the Great Depression. Drew will concentrate on Civilian Conservation Corps facilities in Great Barrington’s Beartown State Forest in and at York Lake in Sandisfield State Forest. Drew will present a visual history of recruit work and leisure utilizing 100 projected images most never shown in the Berkshires or reproduced in books.\nBernard Drew is a newspaper editor and columnist and the author of local Berkshire histories including books about Great Barrington\, Monument Mountain\, Lake Buel\, Beartown\, the Knox Trail and\, nearing completion\, 18th and 19th century water powered industry on the Housatonic River. He is a past president of the Berkshire County Historical Society.\nThis free program is sponsored by Berkshire Bank and Greylock Federal Credit Union.
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/1930s-civilian-conservation-corps-camps-the-genesis-of-our-state-parks-system/
LOCATION:Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Arrowhead Community Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day of free activities and fun celebrating local history! \nArchitectural tours of Arrowhead’s historic buildings will be offered throughout the day and the grounds will be open for hiking. In addition\, a small presentation in the barn explores the sixty-year history of BCHS including highlights from past events\, exhibits\, and more. The presentation will feature highlights from the BCHS collection that are not normally on view.  \nBCHS will also welcome representatives from the Bidwell House who will discuss their work and mission and The Crane Museum of Paper Making and the Paper Arts who will assist visitors with papermaking and printing activities. They will be joined by our friends from the Baseball in the Berkshires Museum\, whose mission is to present exhibits and educational programs that will assist in telling the story of Baseball in the Berkshires. \nThe Worthington\, Massachusetts food truck Worthy-Que Smoke N’BBQ will be on hand offering smoked meats\, fish\, and homemade unique eats using farm fresh local ingredients. The Berkshire Cider Project\, based in North Adams\, will conduct tastings of their dry and sparkling ciders.  \nSpecial musical performances by:\nBobby Sweet and Lara Tupper\, 11 am – 12 noon\nBobby Sweet (guitar and vocals) and Lara Tupper (vocals) achieve a complementary blend that’s packed with heart\, soul\, and fun\, whether singing new interpretations of their favorite folk/pop songs or Bobby’s original compositions. Bobby\, who toured with Arlo Guthrie for many years\, is an award-winning singer-songwriter with seven albums. Lara has performed all over the world as a resident vocalist for Hilton Hotels International. With their rich harmonies and natural stage presence\, they have a special way of connecting with listeners.\nDavid Hodge\, Guitarist\, 12:30 – 2:30 pm\nDavid is a long time resident of Egremont\, a writer\, music teacher\, and guitarist “par excellence” who performs a wide range of oldies and current musical selections sure to please a varied listening audience. \nSpare Parts\, 2:30 – 4 pm\nLiz Stell (flute) and Bill Matthiesen (keyboard) will perform music popular or published in the mid-19th century. \nThis event is sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union.
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/arrowhead-community-day/
LOCATION:Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Up from the Depths: Herman Melville\, Lewis Mumford\, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
DESCRIPTION: Join author and historian Aaron Sachs for a free book signing and discussion of his latest book Up from the Depths: Herman Melville\, Lewis Mumford\, and Rediscovery in Dark Times (Princeton University Press) on Wednesday\, September 28 at 5:30 pm. Sachs will be joined in discussion at Arrowhead by author and former University of Albany professor of literature Richard Matturro. \n \nAaron Sachs is professor of history and American studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism and Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition. \nUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers\, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers\, author Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives\, work\, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. \nThe author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death\, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic\, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age\, urban decay\, world war\, and environmental degradation\, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization\, slavery\, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville\, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure. \n“Up From the Depths takes up the dialectic method so central to Melville’s writing for its unique investigation of parallel lives. . . . Fittingly\, Mr. Sachs’s chapters interweave periods of the two men’s lives\, creating a dappled effect of shared shadows and light. Certain biographical overlaps are particularly striking.” —Sam Sacks\, Wall Street Journal \n 
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/up-from-the-depths-herman-melville-lewis-mumford-and-rediscovery-in-dark-times/
LOCATION:Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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