| July |  | 8 | VENTFORT HALL
MANSION AND GILDED AGE MUSEUM
104 Walker Street
Lenox, MA 01240
413-637-3206
www.GildedAge.org
Time: 4:00 pm
Admission: $15 general public / $12 for members
Description: Lecture “American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the ‘It’ Girl, and the Crime of the Century” followed by a Victoria Tea.
Contact Information: (413) 637-3206, www.gildedage.org, info@gildedage.org
| | 11 | The Lenox Garden Club presents their 19th annual, self-guided tour of gardens and houses, “Hidden Treasures of the Berkshires.”
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine.
Visit seven distinctive properties in the historic southern Berkshire towns of Sheffield and Ashley Falls, MA. Tickets are $30 each. Until June 30, mail ticket requests to Garden Tour 2009, PO Box 552, Lenox, MA 01240. Enclose a self addressed, stamped business sized envelope and check made out to The Lenox Garden Club. From June 1 to July 10, tickets will be available at Mary Stuart Collections, 69 Church Street, Lenox; Real Gustavian, 389 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, or Campo de’Fiori, 1815 N. Main Street, Sheffield, MA. For further information, please visit www.lenoxgardenclub.net or call 413-298-3089.
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4 pm – Lecture by Jeremy Yudkin, “The Lenox School of Jazz - A Hidden Secret” followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
| | 19 | Jazz for the Journey – The Oîkos Ensemble
CELERATING THE HOPES AND DREAMS
OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT
Church on the Hill
169 Main Street, Lenox, MA
Sunday, July 19, 2009
7:00 PM
Inspiring audiences around the country with its
imaginative interplay of jazz, storytelling and spirituality.
A concert to benefit the
Sunday School Program at Church on the Hill
Tickets $15 Children under 12 Free | | 21 | Ventfort Hall 104 Walker Street
4 pm – Lecture by Julie Agar, “Red Pressed Glass and the Gilded Age” followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
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4 pm – Lecture by Danielle Steinmann of the Clark , “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Celebrities of Montmartre” followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
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4 pm – Lecture by Donna Lucey, “Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age” followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
| | August | | 5 | Ventfort Hall
4 pm – Lecture and demonstration by Cile Bellefleur Burbidge, “The Fine Art of Cake Decorating” followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
| | 8 | Ventfort Hall’s Annual Historic Houses Tour
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4 pm – Lecture by Wayne Craven, “Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society” followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
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4 pm – Lecture by Pamela Hawkes of Ann Beha Architects, “A Home for Culture: Restoring Tanglewood’s Tappan House” followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
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4 pm – Lecture by Brenda Wineapple, “White Heat: Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.” followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
| | 28 | The Lenox Library’s 14th annual book sale will be held at 18 Main Street. This year’s “Bargains in Books” event features over 20,000 books gathered from Berkshire homes. Book lovers will find thousands of children’s books, specialized cookbooks, books on fly fishing, gardening, poetry, art, military and WWII, first editions, sets, and lots of old and new fiction at bargain prices, as well as many other categories including graphic novels, a brand new one. Prices start at 50 cents.
| | 29 | The Lenox Library’s 14th annual book sale will be held at 18 Main Street. This year’s “Bargains in Books” event features over 20,000 books gathered from Berkshire homes. Book lovers will find thousands of children’s books, specialized cookbooks, books on fly fishing, gardening, poetry, art, military and WWII, first editions, sets, and lots of old and new fiction at bargain prices, as well as many other categories including graphic novels, a brand new one. Prices start at 50 cents.
| | 30 | The Lenox Library’s 14th annual book sale will be held at 18 Main Street. This year’s “Bargains in Books” event features over 20,000 books gathered from Berkshire homes. Book lovers will find thousands of children’s books, specialized cookbooks, books on fly fishing, gardening, poetry, art, military and WWII, first editions, sets, and lots of old and new fiction at bargain prices, as well as many other categories including graphic novels, a brand new one. Prices start at 50 cents. | | September | | 2 | Ventfort Hall
4 pm – William S.Patten "My Three Fathers and My Mother Susan Mary Alsop", followed by a Victorian Tea and Meet the Speaker
| | 12 | Annual Tub Parade | | 26 | Apple Squeeze Festival | | 27 | Apple Squeeze Festival | | October | | 11 | Ventfort Hall
Medieval Faire - details TBA
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Halloween Event- details TBA | | November | | 27 | Ventfort Hall
A Home for the Holidays Opens - holiday events and decorations - details TBA
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