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
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
Berlin in the early ‘30s was second only to Paris as the undisputed capital of the European fashion world, run by Jews and recognized the world over as a major center for style. But Hitler had different ideas. Join Dr. Linda Burghardt, Scholar-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in New York, to explore how […]
History and Heritage, Online Event
In partnership with Berk12, we invite the community to explore the interactive exhibits and experience this powerful educational resource, soon to be available to all middle and high schools across the Berkshires.
Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibits, Family Friendly, History and Heritage
Join the Bidwell House Museum for an inspiring candlelight program with musician and historian R. Franklin Donohue. While playing the harpsichord and dressed for the 18th century, Mr. Donohue will play a selection of songs that were published and performed in New England between 1765 and 1783. From the time of the Stamp Act through […]
History and Heritage, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Step back in time with culinary historian Becky Libourel Diamond, as she returns to Ventfort Hall to talk about her newest book, The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook. A tea featuring some of the treats from her new cookbook will follow her talk. The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook bridges the past and present, bringing back sugar plums and other […]
Arts and Culture, Food and Drinks, History and Heritage, Literature, Lectures, and Talks