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To enrich your Berkshire experience, consider the following.
1. How about a rainy day prowl for old porcelain?
2. Music – There's more than Tanglewood. Remember the Yale summer school of music in Norfolk (25 min. away), and the music festival at Music Mtn. outside Falls Village, CT. Both have excellent programs of classical music.
3. Go hiking with llamas.
4. Take a literary trek. Visit Arrowhead (Melville's home on Pittsfield / Lenox line), The Mount (Edith Wharton's home); climb Monument Mountain as Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne did for a picnic in 1850.
5. Museuming doesn't stop with Norman Rockwell.
Mass MoCa – Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA.
Chesterwood – Home and sculpture studio of Daniel Chester French (Lincoln Memorial statue, and the "Minuteman" in Concord).
Railroad Museum – Lenox. For children & the young at heart.
The Berkshire Museum – Pittsfield
The Sterling and Francine Clark Museum and The Williams College Museum - In Williamstown
6. Restaurants. Southern Berkshire County is earning a reputation for its culinary excellence, but summer weekends you must reserve ahead!
7. History off the beaten path.
The Bidwell House 1750 – Monterey.
Naumkeag – Choate's home, lawyer to Gilded Age moguls.
The Old Mill – Restaurant in South Egremont. Elegant dining in an ancient grist mill.
The Baldwin Company, West Stockbridge – 19th c. store, makers of extracts for generations – vanilla, almond etc.
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Great Barrington, MA 01230
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(413) 644-9338
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