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Just
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Berkshire County, located in the far western region
of Massachusetts, is one of the premier destination spots in all of New England.
Abutting New York to the West, Vermont to the North and Connecticut to the
South, the Berkshires is made up of 32 quaint cities and towns, each with its own
history and beauty.
In the
Berkshires, residents and visitors alike, enjoy the four true seasons New England is so
well known for. From hiking, fishing and camping in the Spring and Summer, to skiing
and snowmobiling in the Winter, the Berkshires are truly a paradise of relaxation and
beauty. During the Fall the hills and mountains of the Berkshires come to life with an
array of foliage colors that are clearly breathtaking.
In addition to
its beauty, the Berkshires offer an enormous wealth of Cultural Events and Arts that
attract visitors the world over. Attractions such as
the Colonial Theatre, Tanglewood, the Norman Rockwell
Museum, the Hancock Shaker Village, MASS MoCA, the Sterling and Clark Art Museum and
others.
The merchants
of Berkshire County are proud of their various accomplishments and welcome the opportunity
to serve you. From dining to lodging, antiques to shopping, the Berkshires has it all
and more. Perhaps you are considering relocating to the Berkshires, or buying a
summer home? If so, let one of our many fine Realtors assist you with your needs.
Whether you are
a Berkshire County resident, first time visitor or a returning visitor, we hope you will
find the "Just The Berkshires" Web Site helpful and informational. If you
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Hancock Shaker Village -
Route 20,
Pittsfield, MA - (413)
443-0188 or
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The Shakers called
this community "The
City of Peace."
Although you will
find Hancock Shaker
Village a welcome
retreat from today's
hectic pace, this
name belies the
level of activity at
this living museum.
Set your watch back
a century or two and
see the Village come
to life through
vibrant programs,
tours, exhibitions
and hands-on
activities. This
beautifully restored
village, set on
1,200 acres of farm,
woodland and
pasture, is home to
the premier
collection of Shaker
buildings and
artifacts. Graceful
Shaker furniture,
craft and household
items - oval boxes,
brooms, baskets and
textiles - are
exhibited in 20
historic buildings,
each an
architectural gem.
The Round Stone
Barn, most famous of
all Shaker...
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MASS MoCA -
87 Marshall Street, North
Adams, MA - (413)
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If conventional
museums are boxes,
MASS MoCA is an open
platform – a
welcoming place that
encourages dynamic
interchange between
making and
presenting art,
between the visual
and performing arts,
and between our
extraordinary
historic factory
campus and the
patrons, workers and
tenants who again
inhabit it. We at
MASS MoCA work hard
to make the whole
cloth of art-making,
presentation and
participation a
seamless continuum.
Performing arts
residencies offer
well-equipped and
professionally
staffed technical
facilities and
stages, and a
sophisticated,
diverse and
sympathetic audience
for new work –
especially
technically complex
work that requires...
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Norman Rockwell Museum -
9 Glendale
Road, Route 183,
Stockbridge, MA - (413)
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Founded in 1969 with
the help of Norman
and Molly Rockwell,
Norman Rockwell
Museum is dedicated
to the enjoyment and
study of Rockwell's
work and his
contributions to
society, popular
culture, and social
commentary. The
Museum, which is
accredited by the
American Association
of Museums, is the
most popular
year-round cultural
attraction in the
Berkshires. The
Museum houses the
world's largest and
most significant
collection of
Rockwell's work,
including 574
original paintings
and drawings.
Rockwell lived in
Stockbridge for the
last 25 years of his
life. Rockwell's
Stockbridge studio,
moved to the Museum
site, is open to the
public from May
through October, and
features original
art...
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Williams College Museum of Art -
15 Lawrence
Hall Drive, Williamstown,
MA - (413)
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One of the finest
college art museums
in the country, the
Williams College
Museum of Art (WCMA)
houses 12,000 works
that span the
history of art.
Within the broad
range of time
periods and cultures
represented, the
collection
emphasizes modern
and contemporary
art, American art
from the late 18th
century to present,
and the art of world
cultures. Admission
to the museum is
always FREE as are a
host of educational
programs that are
available to
the public.
Expansion of the
facilities and
programming has
gained the museum a
national reputation
as one of the finest
college art museums
in the country. In
2001, on the
occasion of its 75th...
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Tanglewood -
297 West Street, Lenox,
MA - (413)
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The 2013 Tanglewood
Season Tickets
are on
sale now!
The 2013 Tanglewood
season offers music
lovers a spectacular
variety of musical
guests and programs
that spotlight
Tanglewood's rich
tradition of
presenting
summertime concerts
at their best since
1937. Widely known
as one of the
world's most beloved
music festivals and
the famed summer
home of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra,
Tanglewood is
situated in the
beautiful Berkshire
Hills of western
Massachusetts.
The 2013 Tanglewood
season also honors
the festival's
tradition of
presenting the BSO
and many of the top
artists of the
classical music
world in weekend
concerts throughout
July and August....
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Sterling & Francine Clark Art
Institute -
225 South Street, Williamstown,
MA - (413)
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The Clark’s mission
and its geographical
location define
three essential,
interrelated aspects
of its character and
identity: the
quality of its art,
the beauty of its
pastoral setting,
and the depth of its
commitment to the
generation of ideas.
At the core
of the Institute is
its collections,
centered on an
extraordinary legacy
of Impressionist and
Old Master paintings
whose refinement and
appeal reflects the
fact that it has
grown from a core
group of works
carefully and
personally chosen by
the founders. The
domestic and human
scale of the
galleries, the views
out to the pond,
surrounding fields,
and distant
mountains all foster
the contemplation
and enjoyment of
works of art in an
intimate and warm
setting: an
unhurried experience
with real works of
art...
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Jacob's
Pillow -
358 George
Carter Road, Becket, MA - (413)
243-9919 |
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Jacob's Pillow Dance
Festival,
celebrating its 80th
Anniversary Season
this year, is the
ideal destination
for a summer
getaway. A National
Historic Landmark
and National Medal
of Arts recipient,
Jacob's Pillow is
nestled in the
beautiful Berkshire
Hills of Western
Massachusetts and in
2012 will host the
annual international
dance Festival June
16 through August
26.
Called "the
dance center of the
nation" by The New
York Times, the
Pillow brings
together dance,
music, art, and
culture, with more
than 300 free and
ticketed events
including
performances,
photography and art
exhibits, lectures
and discussions,
tours, dance class
observation, onsite
dining, and much
more. Dance
companies from
Australia, Brazil,
Canada, China,
Finland, France,
Germany, Israel, and
across the United
States perform in
two theatres and an
outdoor stage
throughout the
summer...
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The Colonial Theatre
- 111 South
Street, Pittsfield, MA - (413)
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Located in downtown
Pittsfield,
Massachusetts the
Colonial Theatre is
a Gilded Age
architectural gem
brought back to life
as a performing arts
center in the “heart
of the Berkshires”.
Kept safe behind the
temporary wall and
ceiling partitions
of a retail store
for more than 50
years, the ornately
appointed and now
fully restored
Colonial emerged in
August, 2006 as a
cultural and
economic development
force in the
Berkshires.
We invite you
to be a part of the
on-going movement to
maintain this
magnificent part of
our history and our
future. Come tour
this architectural
icon of another age.
Come and enjoy the
contemporary...
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Barrington
Stage Company -
30 Union
Street, Pittsfield, MA - (413)
236-8888 |
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Barrington Stage
Company has become
the fastest growing
arts venue in
Berkshire County,
attracting some
45,000 patrons each
year, and gaining
national recognition
for its superior
quality productions
and comprehensive
educational
programming.
Co-founded in 1995
by Artistic Director
Julianne Boyd,
Barrington Stage has
produced several
award-winning plays
and musicals,
beginning with
winning the Elliot
Norton/Boston
Theatre Critics
Award in its very
first year for The
Diary of Anne Frank.
In its third year,
BSC won two Elliot
Norton/Boston
Theatre Critics
Awards and four
Outer Critics Awards
for its smash hit
production of
Cabaret, which moved
to Boston and played
an extended run at
the Hasty Pudding
Theatre. Several
other BSC
productions,
including Lady Day
at Emerson’s...
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Williamstown
Theatre Festival -
1000 Main
Street, Williamstown, MA
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Nestled in the
Berkshire Hills of
western
Massachusetts, the
Williamstown Theatre
Festival is a
celebration of
theater that brings
together a vast
array of artists and
offers audiences
varied cultural
experiences. Every
summer, WTF presents
classic and new
plays on its Main,
Nikos and Center
Stages, Free
Theatre, Late-Night
Cabaret, and
readings, workshops,
and other special
events including a
program for
youngsters in North
Adams called the
Greylock Theatre
Project. Of equal
importance, WTF's
many training
programs offer
nearly two hundred
aspiring theater
artists and managers
an opportunity to
study acting or
serve as interns
with professional
designers, directors
and
administrators. Though its 57 years,
the Festival’s goals
remain constant: to
attract top talent,
cultivate young
artists, produce
reinterpreted
versions of classics
and new...
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Visit To The Beautiful Berkshires
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Assistance?
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JustTheBerkshires.com
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Chesterwood Estate & Museum - 4
Williamsville Road, Stockbridge,
MA
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Chesterwood, a
National Trust
Historic Site, is
the country home,
studio and gardens
of America’s
foremost sculptor of
public monuments,
Daniel Chester
French (1850-1931),
creator of the
Minute Man and
Abraham Lincoln for
the Lincoln
Memorial.
Situated on
122 acres in the
idyllic hamlet of
Glendale near
Stockbridge,
Massachusetts, the
property and its
buildings were
donated to the
National Trust for
Historic
Preservation by
French’s only child,
Margaret French
Cresson (1889-1973).
Inspired by the
natural beauty of
the Berkshire Hills,
French purchased the
former Marshall
Warner farm in 1896.
Each year, during
the month of May, he
left his permanent
home and studio in
New York for six
months and...
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Shakespeare & Company - 70
Kemble Street, Lenox, MA - (413)
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Launching its 34th
season in the
culturally-rich
Berkshire Hills of
western
Massachusetts in
Lenox, Shakespeare &
Company aspires to
create a theatre of
unprecedented
excellence rooted in
the classical ideals
of inquiry, balance,
and harmony; a
company that
performs as the
Elizabethans did —
in love with poetry,
physical prowess,
and the mysteries of
the universe. With a
core of over 150
artists, the company
performs
Shakespeare,
generating
opportunities for
collaboration
between actors,
directors, and
designers of all
races,
nationalities, and
backgrounds.
Shakespeare &
Company provides
original, in-depth,
classical training
and performance
methods.
The company also
develops and
produces new plays
of social and
political
significance.
Shakespeare &
Company's
educational programs
inspire a new
generation of
students and
scholars to discover
the resonance of
Shakespeare's truths
in the everyday
world, demonstrating
the influence that
classical theatre
can have within a
community...
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Berkshire Museum - 39 South
Street, Pittsfield, MA - (413)
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The mission of the
Berkshire Museum is
to enrich, inspire
and educate through
interactions with
the arts, history
and the natural
world.
The Berkshire
Museum holds
19th-and
20th-century
sculptures by
American and
European artists who
embraced the
Romantic interest in
heroic stories of
the ancient past.
They are primarily
neoclassical
sculptures in
polished white
marble, though
select sculptures in
aluminum, lead, and
bronze are
interspersed as
striking accents.
The diverse
collections enough
also feature
artifacts of ancient
history and natural
science – specimens
from around the
world and across the
ages: fossil
collections, a
143-pound meteorite,
shards of Babylonian
cuneiform tablets,
samplings of early
Mediterranean
jewelry, and
representations of
the Berkshire’s
ecosystems including
local mammals,
birds, reptiles,
fish, insects,
plants, and
minerals.
The Berkshire
Museum is the
repository for
objects associated
with the lives of
well-known figures
in American history.
The first successful
expedition to the
North Pole by Robert
E. Peary and Matthew
Henson in 1908-1909
was supported by Mr.
Crane, and Henson’s
whole-body arctic
fur suit, the sledge
that made the trip,
and other equipment
found a home at the
Berkshire Museum.
Here also are the
writing desk of
Nathanial Hawthorne
and the...
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Berkshire Botanical Garden -
Routes 102 & 183 Stockbridge, MA - (413)
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The Berkshire
Botanical Garden is
a not-for-profit,
membership-supported
educational
organization
encompassing 15
acres of cultivated
land at the
intersection of
Routes 102 and 183
in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts.
Called “a
glistening community
gem” by Virginia
Small, author of the
book Great Gardens
of the Berkshires,
the Garden’s mission
is to fulfill the
community’s need for
information,
education and
inspiration
concerning the art
and science of
gardening and the
preservation and
improvement of our
local environment.
Our public
display gardens are
open May through
mid-October. Both
functional and
ornamental, they are
among the oldest in
the US and have been
expanded over the
years in breadth and
variety through a
series of bequests
and major gifts. Our
collections
emphasize plants
that are indigenous
to or thrive in the
Berkshires; more
than 3,000 species
and varieties are...
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North Adams
SteepleCats - (413)
663-7333 |
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The SteepleCats
organization is a
collegiate summer
baseball team that
brings the best
college baseball
players from across
the country to play
summer baseball at
Joe Wolfe Field. The
team is part of the
New England
Collegiate Baseball
League, a premier
summer league that
is known for its
superb competition.
The North Adams
SteepleCats’ mission
is simple: to field
the best collegiate
summer baseball team
in America and to
provide its fans the
best summer family
entertainment
available anywhere.
North Adams
Steeplecats -
Collegiate baseball
at its finest -
family festive fun &
snacks for under
$20! Games are in
June and July, playoffs
in August. Check website
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Berkshire Theatre Group
oversees the
development, production
and presentation of
theatre and
entertainment on five
stages in the
Berkshires. BTG’s goal
is to present the best
of the performing arts
for everyone. Their
campus in Stockbridge,
which is home to the
Berkshire Theatre
Festival, presents work
at two venues: The
Fitzpatrick Main Stage
and the Unicorn Theatre.
The Fitzpatrick (408
seats), founded in 1928,
is the ultimate “summer
theatre.” This iconic
building, designed by
Stanford White, helped
establish the Berkshires
as a cultural
destination. Each
summer, the finest in
classical theatre and
world premieres are
produced on our historic
stage...
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Joe Wolfe
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Berkshire Theatre Festival - (413)
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The Mahaiwe
Performing Arts Center & Theatre |
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Founded in 1928, the
Berkshire Theatre
Festival has the
unique distinction
of being the
longest-running
professional
performing arts
organization in
Berkshire County and
one of the
first established
regional theatres in
the United States.
Guided by Artistic
Director and CEO
Kate Maguire, the
theatre’s access to
its past translates
into a vivid sense
of what it means to
be a participant in
today’s diverse and
complex world. The
vast artistic
spectrum of artists
who have written,
performed, directed
and designed here
through the decades
has given the BTF a
unique perspective from
which to view the
future. Consistently
high quality productions
on both the...
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Built in 1904 by a
syndicate of local
businessmen, The Mahaiwe
is one of the oldest
surviving theatres in
the country.
The Mahaiwe has
recently been designated
as an official project
of "Save America's
Treasures,"
and
application has
been made for inclusion
in the National Register
of Historic Places. In
January 2003, it was
transformed into the
Mahaiwe Performing Arts
Center with an exciting
future as a year-round
center of cultural life
in the Berkshires.
The Mahaiwe Performing
Arts Center marries the
beauty, warmth and
intimacy, of a
turn-of-the-century
proscenium theater, with
the latest in stage
technology...
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Street, Great Barrington, MA - (413)
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MASS MoCA |
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The Colonial Theatre |
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Barrington Stage Company |
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