of the Shakers ’ arrival in America . Reflect throughout the day on the Shakers ’ history and legacy .
Aug 22 , 6 – 9 p . m ., 4th Annual Cider Makers Dinner , celebrate the 2024 vintage of Berkshire Cider ’ s Hancock Shaker Village Cider .
TurnPark Art Space
2 Moscow Rd ., West Stockbridge turnpark . com ; 413-232-0275
Gate House Gallery
May 10 – July 7 , Nature In ( m ) Ballance , Scott Sherk and Pat Badt : video / sound installation , oil painting , drawing , mixed media .
July 10 – Sept . 8 , Finding Form , Roberley Bell : drawings and small sculpture .
Sept 10 – Oct 31 , The Book , The Landscape Painter , James Holl ’ s abstract paintings and sculptures are inspired by subatomic particles that make up the universe .
Garage Gallery June 1 – July 31 , Lost and Found , Inna Zhukovsky Zilber , a mixed-media exhibition weaving together ceramic , found objects , and textile works , symbolically linked by red thread .
Aug 3 – Oct 31 , Human / Nature , Doug Fitch will present a sculpture exhibition in memory of Hillary Walton , a violinist , a scientist , and a literature professor . The exhibition will consist of once-living trees and samples of Walton ’ s unique shoe collection and will reflect on nature and human interference with it .
The Mount , Edith Wharton ’ s Home
2 Plunkett St , Lenox edithwharton . org ; 413-551-5111
May 24 – Oct 20 , Sculpture at The Mount , a relaunch of SculptureNow , artist-led talks will again be made available to visitors .
The Mount is presenting two signature lecture series : The Masters Series hosted by André Bernard , Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ( see page 92 ) and the Summer Lecture Series . Speakers in the Summer Lecture series include Natalie Dykstra , author of Chasing Beauty : The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner ( July 8 – 9 ); Rachel L . Swarns , author of 272 : The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold ( July 15 – 16 ); Peter Hessler , author of Other Rivers : A Chinese Education ( July 22 – 23 ); Jonathan Eig , author of King : A Life ; Safiya Sinclair , author of How to Say Babylon : A
Memoir ; Deborah Cohen , author of Last Call at the Hotel Imperial ( Aug 12 – 13 ); Charlotte Gray , author of Passionate Mothers , Powerful Sons ( Aug 19 – 20 ); and Brenda Wineapple , author of Keeping the Faith : God , Democracy , and the Trial that Riveted a Nation ( Aug 26 – 27 ).
Herman Melville ’ s Arrowhead ( Berkshire County Historical Society )
780 Holmes Rd ., Pittsfield berkshirehistory . org ; 413-442-1793
May 8 , 5:30 p . m ., A Reading by Lee McColgan from his new book , A House Restored : The Tragedies and Triumphs of Saving a New England Colonial .
May 29 , 5:30 p . m ., linguist Wren Wood will give a talk on Herman Melville ’ s Linguistics . Wood will demonstrate how we can hear Melville ’ s dialect in samples of his work .
June 2 , 7:30 a . m ., Berkshire Bird Observatory Director Ben Nickley will lead a bird walk on the grounds of Arrowhead .
June 26 , 5:30 p . m ., Sailing Towards My Father is a one-man play about Melville ’ s life from youth to old age , performed by Stephen Collins and written and directed by Carl A . Rossi .
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