Stockbridge Mass
admin on Oct 19 2008 | Filed under: Activities, History, New England, Stockbridge
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Jacob’s Pillow – From Farm to Festival
admin on Nov 11 2007 | Filed under: Activities, Culture, Dance
1790-1933: From Farm to Festival Jacob’s Pillow began in 1790 as a hard-scrabble mountaintop farm at the crest of a twisting, climbing stagecoach road between Boston and Albany. Local folk viewing the zig-zagging road from the bottom of the hill thought it resembled the rungs of a ladder, so these biblically minded New Englanders dubbed [...]
Berkshire Theatre Festival
admin on Nov 11 2007 | Filed under: Berkshires
At 78 years old, the Berkshire Theatre Festival has the unique distinction of being the longest-running professional performing arts organization in Berkshire County andone of the first established regional theatres in the United States. Guided by Executive Director Kate Maguire, the theatre’s access to its past translates into a vivid sense of what it means [...]