Herman Melville's Arrowhead
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Wednesday June 3 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
Author Talk - Julie Dobrow
Author, biographer and Tufts University professor Julie Dobrow’s new book, Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage, tells the complicated story of the lives and marriage of Elaine Goodale and Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman. ......More
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Thursday June 4 7:00am - 10:00am EDT
Bird Banding - June 4
Bird banding at Arrowhead allows visitors an up-close opportunity to see birds and watch the process of bird banding. Bird banding allows researchers the opportunity to study a wide array of wild birds in their natural habitat. Arrowhead’s woods, fields and shrubland m......More
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Saturday June 6 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Melville in Downtown Pittsfield
Herman Melville didn’t just stay holed up in his study at Arrowhead. He went to the center of Pittsfield frequently, attended church there and lived off South Street for one year. Check out the places around Park Square that Melville frequented and even used in his writ......More
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Wednesday June 10 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
Authors talk and book signing - Ye Trodden Path
The Berkshire County Historical Society’s Melville Press celebrates the publication of Ye Trodden Path, a collaboration of local historians and authors Bernard Drew of Great Barrington Gary Leveille of the Great Barrington Historical Society Rob Hoogs, Monterey Histori......More
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Thursday June 11 7:00am - 10:00am EDT
Bird Banding - June 11
Bird banding at Arrowhead allows visitors an up-close opportunity to see birds and watch the process of bird banding. Bird banding allows researchers the opportunity to study a wide array of wild birds in their natural habitat. Arrowhead’s woods, fields and shrubland m......More
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Saturday June 13 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Downtown Pittsfield Walk – Neighbors and Strangers
Led by Cynthia Farr Brown, Neighbors and Strangers links the “big story” of America’s rapidly changing population during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as European immigrants flocked to the United States to realize opportunities and escape oppression or catastrophe,......More
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Wednesday June 17 5:30pm - 7:00pm EDT
Wine Tasting - Thomas Jefferson, Wine Lover and Collector
Thomas Jefferson’s passion for wine began early in his life, but it blossomed during his years in France (1784–1789) as United States Minister. He traveled through Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, the Rhône, and northern Italy, taking meticulous notes. His journals reveal......More
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Wednesday June 24 5:30pm - 6:30pm EDT
Revolution in the Berkshires- Lecture by Carole Owens
In Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, twelve of the thirteen colonies voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence (New York abstained). As the colonies declared themselves free and no longer part of the British Empire, what was life like in the Berkshires? How wide was a ......More
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Thursday June 25 7:00am - 10:00am EDT
Bird Banding - June 25
Bird banding at Arrowhead allows visitors an up-close opportunity to see birds and watch the process of bird banding. Bird banding allows researchers the opportunity to study a wide array of wild birds in their natural habitat. Arrowhead’s woods, fields and shrubland m......More
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Friday June 26 5:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
Strange Fancies - Stories of Hauntings and Ghostly Inspiration at Arrowhead - June 26
Well-known ghost tour guide Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires, will discuss the supernatural influences on the imagination of author Herman Melville, as well as the ghostly writings of Melville’s friend and frequent Arrowhead visitor Nathaniel Hawthorne. ......More
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Thursday July 2 7:00am - 10:00am EDT
Bird Banding - July 2
Bird banding at Arrowhead allows visitors an up-close opportunity to see birds and watch the process of bird banding. Bird banding allows researchers the opportunity to study a wide array of wild birds in their natural habitat. Arrowhead’s woods, fields and shrubland m......More