Old houses share their secretsonly if they survive.
Join author Lee McColgan for a free lecture and book signing during which he will share his renovation tales of the Loring House as detailed in his new book, A House Restored. Details here.
On Melville’s Linguistics, May 29
Lecture by Wren Wood demonstrating how we can hear, through linguistics, Melville’s dialect in samples of his work, even without audio recording.
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Bird Walk with Ben Nickley, June 2
Join us for a bird walk led by Ben Nickley, Director of Berkshire Bird Observatory.
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Sailing Towards My Father, June 26
A one-man play about Herman Melville performed by Stephen Collins and written and directed by Carl A. Rossi. The play chronicles Melville’s life from youth to old age.
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Sea Shanties with Alex Harvey and ShinBone Alley, July 24
Celebrate the haunting intercultural exchange of 18th and 19th century maritime music. The grounds are open for picnicking this evening.
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Poor Herman, July 26 – August 3
Herman Melville’s great-great-great granddaughter, Austin playwright Elizabeth Doss, uses the author as a subject to speculate on the line between utter genius and epic failure in us all.
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Eighth Annual Moby-Dick Read-a-thon, August 1 – 4
Call me Ishmael and sign up to read part of Melville’s masterpiece on the site where it was written. Details here.
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Monument Mountain Hike – August 4
Celebrate the day (August 5, 1850) Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne on a walk up Monument Mountain by joining BCHS for a similar hike. Details here.
The Invisible Community: African Americans in Berkshire County (1830-2012)
The Invisible Community: African Americans in Berkshire County was a project of the Berkshire County Historical Society in the late 1990s. Ethnic groups, most notably the African-American community, have traditionally been overlooked in histories of Berkshire County. The Invisible Community project intended to collect information on the historic presence of African-Americans in Berkshire County, and the role that community has played in the county’s history. Partially funded by a grant from Mass Humanities, this collection includes information concerning specific Berkshire residents, oral histories, as well as institutions & events associated with the African-American community in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Click here to listen to oral history recordings or read transcriptions.