BCHS is celebrating the centennial of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor. Read about the novella and lans to commemorate its publication here.
Billy Budd, Sailor Gala – September 20
Celebrate the centennial of Billy Budd, Sailor with a gala evening at Tanglewood’s Linde Center. Enjoy selections from Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd opera performed by Berkshire Opera Festival and readings from Melville’s classic novella.
More information here.
Arrowhead Community Day – September 28
Join us on Saturday, September 28, from 10 am to 4 pm.
Enjoy 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.
FREE (Tickets for house tours required)
Arrowhead in The Financial Times
Read this great piece by best selling author and Pittsfield native Mark Vanhoenacker.
Poor Herman, July 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.
Details here. Use the BOOK NOW button to purchase tickets.
Eighth 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. Details here.
Use the BOOK NOW button to register.
Monument Mountain Hike – August 4
Celebrate the day (August 5, 1850) Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne on a walk up Monument Mountain by joining BCHS for a similar hike. Details here.
The Invisible Community: African Americans in Berkshire County (1830-2012)
The Invisible Community: African Americans in Berkshire County was a project of the Berkshire County Historical Society in the late 1990s. Ethnic groups, most notably the African-American community, have traditionally been overlooked in histories of Berkshire County. The Invisible Community project intended to collect information on the historic presence of African-Americans in Berkshire County, and the role that community has played in the county’s history. Partially funded by a grant from Mass Humanities, this collection includes information concerning specific Berkshire residents, oral histories, as well as institutions & events associated with the African-American community in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Click here to listen to oral history recordings or read transcriptions.