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SUMMARY:Melville Fellows Readings
DESCRIPTION:Berkshire County Historical Society Melville Fellows and Berkshire Community College (BCC) Honors Scholar Program students  Rowan Boyer\, Mwila Malama and Clarise Seguin  have been busy creating original writings and art while spending time at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead\, the location where Melville wrote “Moby-Dick\,” working with Writer-in-Residence Emeritus Jana Laiz.  \nOn May 8 they will present a public reading of their works in Melville Hall’s Room M-21 at BCC on West Street in Pittsfield. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For those who cannot attend in person\, join via Zoom\, visit zoom.us/j/6236694683.
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/melville-fellows-readings/
LOCATION:Berkshire Community College\, West Street\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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SUMMARY:A House Restored
DESCRIPTION:Old houses share their secrets only if they survive.\nJoin author Lee McColgan for a free lecture and book signing during which he will share his renovation tales of the Loring House as detailed in his new book\, A House Restored. \nTrading the corporate ladder for a stepladder\, Lee McColgan commits to preserving the ramshackle Loring House\, built in 1702\, using period materials and methods and on a holiday deadline. But his enchantment withers as he discovers the massive repairs it needs. A small kitchen fix reveals that the structure’s rotten frame could collapse at any moment. In a bathroom\, mold appears and spreads. He fights deteriorating bricks\, frozen pipes\, shattered windows\, a punctured foundation\, and even an airborne chimney cap while learning from a diverse cast of preservationists\, including a master mason named Irons\, a stone whisperer\, and the Window Witch. But can he meet his deadline before family and friends arrive\, or will it all come crashing down? McColgan’s journey expertly examines our relationship to history through the homes we inhabit\, beautifully articulating the philosophy of preserving the past to find purpose for the future. \nLee McColgan has worked on Boston’s Old North Church\, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House\, and other buildings. His work has appeared in Architectural Digest\, Boston Globe\, and Wall Street Journal. He lives with his wife in the Loring House in Pembroke\, Massachusetts. \nPRAISE FOR A HOUSE RESTORED: \n“To many\, preserving the past seems like a tragic endeavor\, but to Lee McColgan\, it’s anything but. The journey of his old house is a joyous trip well told with warmth\, reverence\, and curiosity that will delight. He tells its story with the same craft and care that he uses to form his plaster and hew his timber. His prose is as sharp as his steel. Any lover of old homes and craftsmanship will thoroughly enjoy this tale.” Kevin O’Connor\, Emmy Award–winning host of This Old House\n“Full of warmth\, charm\, and beauty\, this book invites you in and makes you glad you came. In his tale of ar estoration project\, Lee McColgan restores our sense of what makes a house a home. Really terrific\, very nicely written.” Jonathan Eig\, New York Times best-selling author of King: A Life and Ali: A Life \n“This meticulous chronicle describes a series of discoveries: of materials\, techniques\, and principles common in the time of the Salem Witch Trials but now confined largely to the hands of specialists. It’s also a story of innocence lost. As he confronts the cracks\, rot\, dissolutions\, and disconnections of a very old building\, McColgan comes to question his motivation. ‘Why restore anything?’ he eventually asks. Still\, with admirable persistence\, he gets his happy ending\, and we get an intense primer in the joys and horrors of historic restoration.” Kevin Gardner\, award-winning author of The Granite Kiss and Stone Building \nThis lecture is sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/a-house-restored/
LOCATION:Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Voices of Melville: The Linguistic Landscape of Nineteenth-Century America Through a Literary Lens
DESCRIPTION:We can’t know how Herman Melville sounded or hear his characters’ voices…or can we? In linguistics\, the study of language\, we can study how English has changed since Melville’s time and why languages are always changing. Join us as we welcome linguist Wren Wood to Arrowhead for a lecture demonstrating how we can hear Melville’s dialect in samples of his work\, even without audio recording.  \nWren Wood is a linguist and webmaster for the Chicopee Historical Society. They use maps\, statistics and linguistics to encourage discussions around local history and historic preservation\, which can be found on Instagram @FollowingMassHistories. Prior to moving to Western Massachusetts\, they used GIS to study bilingualism and threatened languages in the U.S. They earned a bachelor’s in English from Bridgewater State University and a master’s in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of New Mexico. \nTickets are $5 for BCHS members\, $10 for non-members and can be purchased by using the BOOK NOW button. Not a member yet?  Join now and begin receiving discounted event tickets\, free admission to Arrowhead\, and a discount in the museum shop.
URL:https://berkshirehistory.org/event/on-melvilles-linguistics/
LOCATION:Arrowhead\, 780 Holmes Road\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
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