Tanglewood is an estate and music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is the home of the annual summer Tanglewood Music Festival and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, and has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home since 1937. World-renowned...
Jacob’s Pillow is home to America’s longest running dance festival, located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Dance companies from around the world and across the United States perform in two historic theatres and an outdoor stage...
America’s Oldest Synagogue In 1658 the small but growing colony of Newport, Rhode Island received its first Jewish residents. These fifteen families came from Barbados, where a Jewish community had existed since the 1620’s. The subsequent stories and struggles...
Chesterwood was the summer estate and studio of the prolific American sculptor Daniel Chester French – the sculptor who famously designed the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and Minuteman Memorial in Boston. When Daniel Chester French spoke of his summer studio and...
Berkshire Botanical Gardens is a 15-acre botanical garden in Stockbridge, MA. The public display gardens are both functional and ornamental, and are among the oldest in the US. Their collection of more than 3,000 species emphasizes plants that are indigenous to or...
The Old North Church is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and the oldest active church building in Boston. It is also the place where Paul Revere’s famous “One if By Land, Two is by Sea” signal is said to have been sent. Inside the church is a...
Berkshire Theatre Group is the premier performing arts organization in Western Massachusetts. BTG encompasses 5 theaters in 3 towns throughout Berkshire County. During the summer actors from Boston and NYC, as well as throughout the US, come here to hone their craft....
The Clark Art Institute has built upon an extraordinary group of works to become one of the most beloved and respected art museums in the world, known for its intimate galleries and stunning natural environment. The Clark Art Institute is best known for an...
Hancock Shaker Village began in the Berkshires, when nearly 100 Believers consolidated a community on land donated by local farmers who had converted to the Shaker movement. The community had peaked in population with more than 300 Believers. The Shakers developed a...
The Hopkins Observatory is the oldest existing observatory in the United States. In 1834, Prof. Albert Hopkins went to England to search for astronomical apparatus. On his return he built a permanent observatory, which they constructed by hand from 1836 to 1838. That...
MASS MoCA has become one of the world’s premier centers for making and showing the best art of our time. MASS MoCA is perhaps the most fertile site in the country for new art and thrives on making and presenting work that is fresh, surprising, and challenging....
The National Shrine of The Divine Mercy is a ministry of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the authentic promoters of the message of The Divine Mercy. Located in the heart of the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts, the...
