Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
Bill Cohn, Trinity College Visiting Professor of History and American Studies, will mark the 100th anniversary of The Great War 1914-1918 (World War I) and the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II (1945) with a discussion of the propaganda techniques used in each war that regimented the public mind. During World War [...]
The Easy Ridin' Papas are a duo made up of Will Conklin on trumpet/cornet, vocals, and whistling, as well as a really loud kazoo, and Adam Brown on parlor, archtop, and resonator guitars and vocals. They play a mix of 20's, 30's, and 40's country blues, jazz and country standards, western swing, southern gospel, and [...]
With pickling, canning, and other traditional techniques enjoying a surge of popularity, Barrow, a D.C.-based food writer who chronicles her kitchen adventures in a popular blog, offers a guide to all kinds of food preservation in her new book Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry (WW Norton & Company). Canning, smoking, brining, and curing are among the [...]
The Roosevelt family has long fascinated Americans, but many people are unaware that one branch lived quietly in Sandisfield for many years. Now, author Jo (Johanna) Garfield, will read from her memoir about her former neighbors--Teddy’s grandson Willard, his wife Carol, their children, and the many other friends and relatives that comprised “the mysterious, ever-intriguing [...]
Works by Vera Pavlisova The Mandala in Countless Forms Opening Reception : 5th Sep 2015 02:00 PM Date of Show : 5th Sep 2015 - 30th Nov -0001 Vera was born and grew up in Czechoslovakia. Her interest in visual art started at preschool. When she was working full time and taking care of her [...]
In The Belle of Amherst, we journey with Emily Dickinson through her life. We explore her typical 19th c. girlhood and increasingly reclusive adulthood where words became her life, and friends her “estate”. Through sharing letters, books and poems she explores her truths with nature, man and God. Mari Andrejco is an actor, teaching artist, [...]
Join us for two literary launches—a new poetry book from Sandisfield poet Hilde Weisert and the new journal Stone Walls II, with arts, history and culture of the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts, co-edited by Worthington’s poet Antonia Lake. Weisert will read from her first poetry collection, The Scheme of Things. Lake and others will read [...]
Meet state forester Tom Ryan and learn about the woodlands of Sandisfield and surrounding areas. Some of the topics covered will include land use history, current forestry programs, grant opportunities and related state laws and examples of forest management. Learn what you can do to be more proactive with your woodland. A Q&A will follow. [...]
Opening Reception : 3rd Oct 2015 02:00 PM Date of Show : 3rd Oct 2015 - 30th Nov -0001 Lucinda Shmulsky collects pieces of distressed wood, rusty tools, broken antiques and vintage silver and brass items and combines them in unique ways to preserve and extend their life in her collection of "Antiques & Assemblages." Each [...]
This session will review climate and atmospheric CO2 changes over Earth’s past 500 million years, the tools we use to identify these changes and the implications of past changes for Earth’s future. This is the second Saturday climate change lecture with Suzanne O’Connell Each presentation will build upon previous presentations, but should be understandable as [...]
