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:
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…
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…
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,…
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…
ABSTRACT: THE THEATRE SCENE about actor John Douglas Thompson. John Douglas Thompson, who is forty-eight and regarded by some people as the best classical actor in America, has been acting for twenty years, responding to an epiphany he had as a travelling salesman of computers, A.T.M.s, and check-sorting machines. Thompson is known for playing Othello…
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…
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…
Monday May 7, 2012 LENOX -- (From the Berkshire Eagle) - As the starter's gun went off on a normally sleepy early Sunday morning downtown, 287 riders competing in the first annual Berkshire Cycling Classic shot out of the gate in a swarm of colorful blue, yellow, black and white riding outfits. The event, organized…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Five Must-Go Classical and Jazz Music Festivals this Summer | Travel News from Fodor’s Travel Guides
By Alyssa Kim While the official, indoor symphony season may soon be winding down, the annual bevy of revered summer music festivals, all set in the great outdoors, are just a few short months away. So get your picnic baskets ready, dust off those bottles of wine, and throw some bug repellant in your bag.…
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An elite retreat Arts, culture, and luxury are surrounded by beauty of Berkshire The Museum of the Gilded Age is housed in the 19th-century Ventfort Hall. (Jonathan Wiggs/ Globe Staff) Globe Staff / December 26, 2007 In the mid-19th century, Lenox became a summer haunt for the elite of Boston and New York, but it…
