Berkshire County Historical Society

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.

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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Join us for a  bird walk led by Ben Nickley, Director of Berkshire Bird Observatory. 
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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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Celebrate the haunting intercultural exchange of 18th and 19th century maritime music. The grounds are open for picnicking this evening.
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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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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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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. 

This free virtual lecture explores Herman Melville’s passion for print collecting and the creation of a website that allows access to 420 works from his collection.  More information here. 

Read this great article in The Berkshire Eagle about how arts are integrated into Pittsfield public schools. This arts integration program is just one of many school-based programs BCHS participates in.