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Fuse Flash: Melville Matters — A Pit-Stop in Pittsfield

On August 1st a group of dedicated Melvilleans gathered at the author’s Arrowhead home in the morning to commemorate his 191st birthday by hiking to Monument Mountain. This trip is meant to reenact the hike Melville took on August 5, 1850, which led to his meeting Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose short story collection Mosses from an […]

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: American, Arrowhead, Berkshires, classic, fiction, Fuse Flash, Herman Melville, MA, Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New England, novel, Pittsfield, writer

Culture Vulture: Back to Laramie: Moises Kaufman’s Epilogue and Judy Shepard’s Memoir

By Helen Epstein I saw “The Laramie Project Epilogue” at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, one of a reported 150 venues around the world where staged readings took place this week, the eleventh anniversary of what has become perhaps the most famous hate crime in the world. In October of 1998, twenty-one year […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured Tagged: Barrington Stage Company, Culture Vulture, Judy Shepard, Laramie, Massachusetts, Mathew Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Pittsfield, The Laramie Project, The Laramie Project Epilogue, The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder, Wyoming

Coming Attractions: Culture Vulture’s October Picks

by Helen Epstein I’m looking forward to what looks to be the best fall foliage season in years in the Berkshires. American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA through October 12. A very popular summer exhibit has been held over. It covers Rockwell’s entire 65-year career, interpreted and […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured Tagged: Barrington Stage, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cole-Porter, Culture Vulture, First Monday at Jordan Hall, Gloucester, kiss me kate, La Cause des Livres, Lyric stage company of boston, Norman Rockwell, October picks, Pittsfield, Rockwell Museum, Susan Erony, The Laramie Project, White-Ellery House

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