Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
Our Berkshire wildflowers are as beautiful around the home as in the woods and meadows and provide many benefits to pollinators and wildlife as well. Thomas Christopher and Ruth Clausen, co-authors of Essential Perennials, will introduce a selection of New England’s very best native perennials, along with all the information you will need to make them [...]
Robin Tost: “Not Your Grandmother’s Quilt—Fabrications in Metal” Opening Reception : 8th Aug 2015 02:00 PM Date of Show : 8th Aug 2015 - 30th Nov -0001 Using shapes of automotive scrap, advertising remnants and other junk metals, cut by hand and sewn with wire, Robin fabricates the waste materials of our fading New England [...]
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. [...]
