Berkshire County Historical Society

Historian Carole Owens discusses  what life was like in the Berkshires as the colonies declared themselves free and no longer part of the British Empire. FREE EVENT  Details here.

Free staged reading of plays created during a workshop led by Elizabeth Doss.

Richard Franklin Donohue (tenor & harpsichord) performs  a collection of “New Songs” and Hymns published in New England during the American Revolution. Full details here. 

Performer, playwright and great, great, great grand daughter of Herman Melville Elizabeth Doss returns to Arrowhead to “talk back” to The Confidence Man, the last published and completed novel by Melville in his lifetime. This one-person performance aims for a healthy mixture of insight, ignorance and some stabs at hilarity. Click here for details.

BYO picnic on Arrowhead’s lawn, a performance by the five Masthead residents, followed by drinks, oysters, and lantern-lit studio walks. Details here.

Join with your community and celebrate the 175h anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick AND the tenth anniversary of BCHS’s Moby-Dick Read-a-thon. Details here.

Celebrate Herman Melville’s birthday with a rousing evening of sea shanties and street blades performed bu Arrowhead favorite Alex Harvey and Shinbone Alley. Full details here.

Celebrate the day (August 4, 1850) Herman Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne on a hike up Monument Mountain. FREE EVENT,  Full details here.

Historian Ben Haley discusses the fascinating, but not well-known story of the creation of the Knox Trail. Full details here.

Join our friends from Crane Museum of Papermaking for free papermaking demonstrations, hands on papermaking and a Crane paper sale. FREE EVENT