On August 5, 1850, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met and hiked to the top of Monument Mountain beginning what would be a long and close friendship. On that day, they also hiked Ice Glen, a small but stunning glacial ravine in Stockbridge. Berkshire County Historical Society volunteers will lead a leisurely stroll through Laurel […]
Belong Berkshires, Family Friendly, History and Heritage, Outdoor Event
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
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 features paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts made by twenty-five professional women artists in Great Britain who were, in fact, answering Virginia Woolf’s call during her lifetime. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which furthered their […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, 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
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
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 noble train of artillery, also known as the Knox Expedition, was an expedition led by Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox to transport sixty tons of heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army camps outside Boston—a journey of 300 miles—during the winter of 1775–76. The train passed through the forests and swamps […]
Berkshire250, Family Friendly, 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
As you drive down Art School Road, you will be able to leave the modern world behind and enter a time when fire was used for cooking, everyone lived off the land and muskets were the weapon of choice. This living history weekend will open on Saturday morning at 10 am and there will be […]
Berkshire250, Exhibits, Family Friendly, History and Heritage, Outdoor Event
As you drive down Art School Road, you will be able to leave the modern world behind and enter a time when fire was used for cooking, everyone lived off the land and muskets were the weapon of choice. This living history weekend will open on Saturday morning at 10 am and there will be […]
Berkshire250, Exhibits, Family Friendly, History and Heritage, Outdoor Event