The popular Shaker Supper series will return to Hancock Shaker Village for the 2025 season. The four-part series includes special presentations from a variety of compelling Shaker experts sharing their unique perspectives on the many fascinating ways the Shakers lived and thrived throughout the years. Depending on the discussion topic, short tours of the historic […]
Food and Drinks, History and Heritage
Louis Graveraet Kaufman - The Fabulaous Michigan Jewish Gatsby, with biographer Ann Berman via Zoom. The life and legacy of Louis Graveraet Kaufman (1870–1942), a half Jewish, part Indigenous man from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who lived a wild Jazz Age life, built one of the country’s largest banks, built a 26,000 square-foot log […]
Diversity and Inclusion, History and Heritage, Online Event
Ride our Fall Foliage Train Ride as leaves are falling and tickets are speeding out the door! The Speedliner features the New Haven 41 and Baltimore & Ohio 1960, two of our classic Budd Rail Diesel Cars. B&O 1960 was built in 1956 to service the company’s Daylight Speedliner service, which ran from Philadelphia to […]
Family Friendly, History and Heritage
October marks the second anniversary of the Yiddish Book Center’s landmark exhibition Yiddish: A Global Culture. To celebrate, we’re hosting a full day of activities, including the launch of the exhibition’s catalog, Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity (White Goat Press). Activities throughout the day include: • Pop-up performances throughout the exhibition • […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibits, History and Heritage
Join us as Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires, leads you through the rooms and halls of this historic estate sharing tales of its hauntings. Stand in the places where the eerie encounters occurred, listen to the first-hand accounts of those who experienced them, and maybe even experience something unusual yourself. This is not an […]
History and Heritage, Performing Arts & Entertainment
The popular Shaker Supper series will return to Hancock Shaker Village for the 2025 season. The four-part series includes special presentations from a variety of compelling Shaker experts sharing their unique perspectives on the many fascinating ways the Shakers lived and thrived throughout the years. Depending on the discussion topic, short tours of the historic […]
Food and Drinks, History and Heritage