Category Archives: Art

We’ve Got Snow and The Arts

Posted on January 16, 2012 by innkeeper

In Winter, Berkshires Culture Moves Indoors Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times Top: Ventfort Hall in Lenox, Mass., where Anne Undeland performs “Open Marriage” in the library, right. Above: A work by Adrian Paci, left, at Mass MoCA in North Adams. Original Article By Mark Vanhoenacker   There’s far more to the Berkshire Mountains [...]

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It Was the Best of Times

Posted on September 13, 2011 by innkeeper

Says Quinn: Despite Irene’s unwelcome end-of-summer visit, this was one of the best of my 12 summers at Birchwood Inn. Ellen and I have created a Top Ten Best of Summer 2011 list: # 10 -Best play we missed: “Sylvia” — about a dog of course — at the Berkshire Theatre Festival #  9  -Best Tanglewood Concert [...]

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Dog Days? I’m Insulted

Posted on July 25, 2011 by innkeeper

As a most fine and upstanding canine, I am not at all happy that these miserably hot days in the Northeast, with unheard of temperatures in the 90s and humidity that even curls my hair, are called Dog Days. Dogs are cool! Here in Lenox, in the heart of the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts, [...]

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Berkshire International Film Festival: The New Sundance East??

Posted on May 6, 2011 by innkeeper

Couldn’t get to the Sundance Film Festival this year? Then come visit our Inn in Lenox, MA and head to the 6th annual Berkshire International Film Festival from June 2nd-5th. Seventy feature-length and short feature films and documentaries by independent filmmakers from the US and abroad will be shown in Great Barrington and Pittsfield over [...]

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Go Latin This Weekend in the Berkshires!

Posted on April 29, 2011 by innkeeper

Latin dancers are heating up the Berkshires this weekend and visitors to our Bed and Breakfast in Lenox, MA are in for a real treat! Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art (MASSMoCA) co-present Los Munequitos de Matanzas at MASSMoCA in North Adams, in the Berkshires beautiful North County. This company [...]

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Frelinghuysen-Morris House and Studio – A Hidden Treasure

Posted on June 25, 2009 by innkeeper

The informal photographs of Matisse, Leger, Picasso, and Miro, friends of Suzy Frelinghuysen and George L.K. Morris, are on exhibit with their paintings this summer.

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