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Spirited

spirited-wines.com 444 Pittsfield Road, Lenox, Massachusetts 01240 (413) 448-2274 Jim Nejaime, long-time wine merchant, and his experienced crew invite you to visit our premier shop in Lenox. We take great pride in our extensive selection of wines, and travel around the world to bring you great values, rare gems, and the finest quality to satisfy…
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New York Post likes Lenox!

Want fancy? Try Mass. appeal By CINDY ADAMS Last Updated: 11:55 PM, April 28, 2013 Posted: 11:40 PM, April 28, 2013 Cindy Adams Airlines are having it tough. Economy’s tough. You want to visit the Galapagos, the Outback, the Gobi, the Alps? Looking to freeze your tickets off in Siberia? Save your baht. Stuff your drachmas. Shove your…
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Lenox for Weddings

Lenox is really getting on the map as THE place to have your wedding. Here's a great post about the Wedding Planner Tour Weekend by May I Have the Ring with some fantastic photos. As the writer puts it: "Lenox is in the heart of the Berkshire Mountains, and is one of the most beautiful, year-round…
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HOLIDAY VOICES HEARD THROUGHOUT LENOX

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From: The Lenox Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 646, Lenox, MA. 01240 Contact: Ralph Petillo. 413.637.3646 or email: info@lenox.org                         HOLIDAY VOICES HEARD THROUGHOUT LENOX The “Voices of the Holiday Season” can be heard in Lenox from Thanksgiving through New Years.  Celebrate a traditional New England Thanksgiving at one of our fine Inns and Resorts.  The "voice"…
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Fabulous in the Berkshires

Fabulous Magazine likes the Berkshires and highlights the Apple Tree Inn - how great is that! <<<   Mass. Appeal by Kate Wills   October 22, 2012in LifestyleTags: Boston,Massachusetts,travel Massachusetts might just be the artiest US state you’ve never heard of. From Boston to The Berkshires, it’s a Mecca for culture and cracking seafood…. Boston For red-brick buildings, cobbled streets and…
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New York Social Diary visits the Mount

New York Social Diary visits the Mount Big Old Houses: (Almost) Like New by John Foreman Hearing that his friend Edith Wharton had bought a fancy car with the proceeds of a fat book contract, the eminent author Henry James observed, "With the proceeds of my last novel, I purchased a small go-cart...on which my…
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Berkshires on a Budget

The Berkshires on a budget THIS STORY APPEARED IN September 30, 2012 “Wow, this is totally amazing,” we said, gazing in wonder at the kaleidoscope of color in the valley below us, as Route 2 zigzagged toward North Adams. “I wouldn’t know,” our friend in the driver’s seat replied, “I’m kind of busy right now,…
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Vogue honors Edith Wharton

Vogue Magazine  presents "Custom of the Country", an 18-page spread with photos by Annie Leibovitz, styled by legendary VOGUE Creative Director Grace Coddington, in the September 2012 issue of VOGUE. The feature includes an essay by award-winning novelist Colm Toibin about Edith Wharton and her complicated love triangle with Morton Fullerton and Henry James. The sixteen-page fashion…
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OpenMediaBoston.org writes about The Mount

The Berkshires: The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home in the Berkshires by Sue Katz (Staff), Aug-04-12 Travel The Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton came from a privileged background and made a bob or two from her writing – enough to build this wonderful home, The Mount; but despite being rich and successful, she was always…
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NY1 Covers the Berkshire Theater Scene

Nice video spot about the Berkshires' theater scene right now at www.ny1.com with coverage of Lenox-based Shakespeare & Company, Barrington Stage and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Kemble Inn’s grandeur is in the details

By Tony Dobrowolski, Berkshire Eagle Staff Posted:   07/17/2012 12:07:11 AM EDT Renovations to the Kemble Inn in Lenox include new windows and bathrooms, and subtler overhauls like raising the ceilings 18 inches. (Photos by Stephanie Zollshan / Berkshire Eagle Staff) Tuesday July 17, 2012LENOX -- Scott Shortt owns an historic inn, but he doesn't want…
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Café Lucia

80 Church Street Lenox, Massachusetts 01240 (413) 637-2640 CafeLuciaLenox.com Email: reserve@CafeLuciaLenox.com Featuring regional Italian preparations, local organic produce, natural & organic meats, fresh fish & seafood. Excellent wines, full bar. Fine dining in former 1840’s farmhouse. Chef owned and operated since 1983. Air-conditioned or alfresco dining on our covered Mahogany deck amid flower gardens. Private…
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A Wedding – Willa + Mike | The Mount | Lenox, MA

Reposted from heidibenjamin.com/blog/willa-mike-the-mount-lenox-ma This wedding makes my heart smile. I spent the morning at a beautiful little Bed and Breakfast watching the ladies work their magic. Hung with the guys at a local brewery and got to live out a real live fairytale. This wedding had so many DIY elements. Everything was so perfect. Willa’s…
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Berkshire British Motorcar Festival

The Berkshire British Motorcar Festival has kicked off with a bang! Beautiful weather for the weekend and crowds of enthusiastic car lovers here to see the spectacular vehicles - Video by Judy Seaman: Here's some photos from the Friday kick-off event in downtown historic Lenox by photographer Kevin Sprague:
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Rapha Racing NYC: the Berkshire Cycling Classic | Rapha

Rapha Racing NYC: the Berkshire Cycling Classic By Guest Author • 7th June 2012 11:13pm • Posted in Team Text and Photos by Dylan Nord - Rapha Racing NYC Dame Nature did her best when she fashioned Berkshire. Elsewhere she has wrought effects more grand, more imposing perhaps, but nowhere scenery more exquisite in variety…
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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Events

TANGLEWOOD 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, JUNE 22-SEPTEMBER 2 SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY SEASON OPENS WITH PERFORMANCES BY ARTISTS WITH LONG-TIME CLOSE TIES TO TANGLEWOOD: YO-YO MA AND HIS SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE, JUNE 22 AND 24; JAMES TAYLOR, JULY 2, 3, & 4; MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP, JUNE 28 & 29; AND A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION WITH THE INIMITABLE…
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Memorial Day in Lenox

05/28/2012 - Lenox, MA. Photos by Kevin Sprague. ©2012. Lenox, MA knows how to recognize memorial day the right way - a community parade and a chance to honor and recognize men and women in uniform who put themselves in harm's way on our behalf. Not withstanding a nice collection of Lenox Band Members, Scouts,…
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Berkshires revel in summer magic

via masslive.com May 22, 2012 To look at it from one perspective, the year Tanglewood opened was the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in for his second term, the year Amelia Earhardt disappeared, and the year the Republic of Ireland was established. In other words: A long time ago. While the bucolic concert venue has…
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April Travel: Lenox, Massachusetts – Forbes

Spend a sunny spring weekend in nearby Lenox, Massachusetts. Relaxation, Rockwell and  delicious restaurants await. STAY Blantyre Luxury Country House Hotel 16 Blantyre Road Lenox, Mass. Blantyre, a charming, Tudor-style country house and estate, is located on 117 sprawling acres in the Western Massachusetts town of Lenox. This small luxury resort’s exquisite service, lavish rooms and…
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Cranwell Resort is a trip back to the Gilded Age

When is a cottage not a cottage? When it's a majestic mansion in the patrician town of Lenox in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. This New England enclave was settled during the late 1800s, the booming industrial period that Mark Twain labelled the Gilded Age for the ostentatious lifestyles of the less-than-one per cent. As…
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The Mount Takes Edith Wharton Personally in 2012 | The Rogovoy Report

Edith Wharton in 1905 (LENOX, Mass.) – In its programming for the coming year – the 150th anniversary of author Edith Wharton’s birth – The Mount will pay tribute to Wharton by highlighting her life, work, and achievements under the umbrella theme of Edith Wharton: 21st Century Muse. The Mount’s official opening day is this…
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Our New Site!

Welcome to the new website for the Lenox Chamber of Commerce - we're excited to see you here and hope that you find this site a useful resource to find out what there is to do in and around Lenox - as well as where to stay, things to do, great restaurants, and so much…
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Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism – The Berkshires at a Glance

via massvacation.com Think music, museums, and mountains. On the western border of Massachusetts, the Berkshires provide an unbeatable array of visual and performing arts experiences and outdoor adventures in a magnificent rural setting. CHECK IT OUT Summer in the Berkshire is synonymous with Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a venue for…
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Tanglewood summer picnic – Yankee Magazine

Lenox, MA: Tanglewood Picnic Menu ideas for lawn party at Tanglewood by Annie B. Copps Book excerpt: Tanglewood: A Group Memoir For music lovers, there's no more enchanting venue than Tanglewood in the summer. For more than seven decades, the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (and a host of friends) have been switching to…
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In Winter, Berkshires Culture Moves Indoors

Traditionally, early September brings a frosty curtain down on this fair-weather communion of art and land. The region’s snowy scenes may have inspired some notable James Taylor lyrics and the color of American literature’s most famous whale. But by midwinter, Arrowhead, Herman Melville’s former home, is open by appointment only, and Mr. Taylor’s beloved Tanglewood…
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Apple Tree Inn

10 Richmond Mountain Road, Lenox, MA 01240 413.637.1477 • info@appletree-inn.com • appletree-inn.com Antique-filled Victorian inn with mountain views on 22 hilltop acres. Walk to Tanglewood & Kripalu. Large parlor with view and fireplace. Fireplace rooms. Pool & tennis. Weddings, parties, meetings & retreats.
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Birchwood Inn

7 Hubbard Street, Lenox, MA 01240 413.637.2600 • 800.524.1646 • innkeeper@birchwood-inn.com • birchwood-inn.com Welcoming 1766 inn. Incredible breakfasts & afternoon tea. Romantic, soothing & foodie packages. Wood-burning fireplaces, A/C, WiFi, dog friendly. Just steps away from the village & Kennedy Park.
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Blantyre

16 Blantyre Road, Lenox, MA 01240 413.637.3556 • welcome@blantyre.com • Blantyre.com Beautiful 21-room country house hotel, restaurant & cozy, intimate spa for house guests. Tennis, ice skating, swimming & snow shoeing on property. Exquisite dining & extensive wine cellar. Forbes 5 Star Award