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Tour of Hillside Cemetery, North Adams

Berkshire County Historical Society - Hillside Cemetery 168 West Main Street, Pittsfield, MA, United States

Where can you find a personal friend of two U.S. Presidents, the attorney who invented a railroad brake, the Father of Archaeological Photography, two physicians who started a school, and an eyewitness to President Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address? Join historian Jason Vivori for a walk through one of the historic cemeteries of northern […]

$15 – $20
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Author Talk with Tom Piazza

Berkshire County Historical Society 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield

Noted author Tom Piazza will discuss The Auburn Conference, his new historical novel that features Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and other notable figures appearing at a fictionalized tiny upstate New York college in 1883.

$10 – $15
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Planting Lucretia’s Elm, 5:30 pm

Berkshire County Historical Society 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield

Join us on Park Square for the ceremonial planting of a young elm tree on Plant a Tree Day.  The tree will be planted to honor the Berkshires first known environmentalist Lucretia Williams’ historic effort to save the towering Pittsfield elm in 1789. Learn about the woman who threw herself before the woodsman’s axe to […]

Free

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Highlights of Massachusetts Archaeology

Berkshire County Historical Society 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield

Tuesday, October 10 – , 5:30 pm When you think of archaeology, you might think of Egypt, Ancient Greece, or Mexico before considering Massachusetts. But here in our state we have some fascinating archaeology and some sites with memorable stories to tell. This lecture takes you from Boston to the Berkshires showing sites from thousands […]

Free
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Tour of the Church on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox

Berkshire County Historical Society - Church on the Hill Cemetery 169 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Join Tyringham resident and historian John Hanson on a walking tour of significant gravestones in this historic Lenox cemetery. Hanson has been collecting epitaphs and studying early New England gravestones for years. On this tour, he will discuss the iconography of the stones, share some noteworthy verses, and discuss what they tell us about early […]

$15 – $20
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Tour of the Woods Cemetery, Monterey

Berkshire County Historical Society - Wood Cemetery 81-99 Beartown Mountain Road, Monterey, MA, United States

Join historian Robert Hoogs as we explore the historic Woods Cemetery. Take a walking tour of the oldest cemetery in Monterey where Rev. Adonijah Bidwell and two of his wives are buried along with many of the early settlers of what was once Township #1 (modern day Tyringham and Monterey). Meet at the Bidwell House […]

$15 – $20