Moby-Dick Fifth Annual Read-A-Thon
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield,The Berkshire County Historical Society’s annual Moby Dick Read-a-Thon will take place July 28–August 1 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm each day.
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Moby-Dick Fifth Annual Read-A-Thon
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield,The Berkshire County Historical Society’s annual Moby Dick Read-a-Thon will take place July 28–August 1 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm each day.
Guild of Berkshire Artists Art Show
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield,[email protected]: A Whale of a Show! showcases the works of local and regional artists around the theme of Stories in Art. The show is a great opportunity to support local artists by purchasing their work.
Guild of Berkshire Artists Art Show
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield,[email protected]: A Whale of a Show! showcases the works of local and regional artists around the theme of Stories in Art. The show is a great opportunity to support local artists by purchasing their work.
Book reading with Caroline Hellman: Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature,
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield, $10 – $15Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature looks at how contemporary United States writers have responded to texts that were historically central to the American literary canon - including Melville's Moby Dick. In their rewritings and layering of new stories over older ones, contemporary writers chronicle a spectrum of […]
Victorian Quadrille Orchestra
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield,The Victorian Quadrille Orchestra presents dance music from the Civil War and Victorian era. The orchestra invites you back to a time before electronics and recorded music as they perform […]
Melville Biographical Research Lecture: Warren Broderick
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield, $10Join Melville scholar and New York State retired archivist Warren Broderick as he presents newly discovered original source documents that will shed light on Melville’s life and work. Learn about previously unknown records that bear Herman’s signature as well as the first published reference to a missing novel.
Virtual: Mr. Noble Melancholy
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield,Join the Berkshire County Historical Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College (OLLI) as we present "Mr. Noble Melancholy", starring John Trainor as Nathaniel Hawthorne. A […]
Virtual: Samuel Harrison
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield,Join Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, author of "The Reverend Samuel Harrison." In honor of the birthday of Samuel Harrison, chaplain of the famed Massachusetts 54th Regiment, this presentation will illuminate this famed […]
Virtual: Hidden Women with Tammy Denease – Belinda the African, Compelled to Servitude
Arrowhead and Berkshire Historical Society 780 Holmes RoadPittsfield,Belinda the African was born into the Asanti Kingdom.She was kidnapped from her homeland and sold into slavery to the Royall Family on the island of Antigua and then to […]