Join the Berkshire Jewish Community as we come together to commemorate October 7 with Israeli musician Micha Biton, sharing his story of hope and survival through music. Advance registration requested. Appropriate security measures will be in place.
Diversity and Inclusion, History and Heritage
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
The 16th annual Tamarack Hollow Berkshire Drum Fest Honoring Our Elders Saturday October 11th at the Windsor Town Hall in Windsor, MA featuring multi-level drum, song and cultural classes with master drummer and cultural ambassador of the Malinke people Namory Keita from Sangbarala, Guinea, West Africa and a community performance featuring Namory Keita, Aimee Gelinas […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Family Friendly, Festivals, 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 Clark celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a pop-up exhibition of print materials created by indigenous artists from North America and around the globe. The event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper. Featured are artists’ books by Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke), Raven Chacon (Diné), and others, as well as a […]
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibits, History and Heritage, Holidays
The Berkshire County Historical Society welcomes authors Laurie Gwen Shapiro and Debby Applegate to Arrowhead on October 15 for a conversation about the art of documenting an event or person’s life, whether in film or in print. Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, […]
Arts and Culture, History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
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
The Berkshire County Historical Society will host historian Lorraine German for the lecture Grandmother’s Wedding Dress. German uses the swatches and clothing information found in a small late-nineteenth century scrapbook filled with fabric swatches to reveal a story of fabrics and fashion in nineteenth-century Vermont, as told by three generations of an ordinary family.
History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks