For nearly 200 years the Williams and Son's Country Store has been a staple of the Main Street landscape in Stockbridge. Visit the Procter Gallery in the Stockbridge Library, Museum & Archives to learn more about the history of the Williams and Son's Country Store.
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and on Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and on Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led…
Join us on Saturday, October 1 at 2:00 p.m. for a timely discussion with Gorbachev scholar, William Taubman. He will be speaking in conversation with lifelong foreign affairs correspondent, Jim Brooke. William Taubman, the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College, is the author of the just-published Gorbachev: His Life and Times.…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and on Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and on Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led…
Our October Cookbook Club will feature Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from my Kitchen in Mexico by Rick Martínez. Cookbook Club will take place on Thursday, October 6 at 12:00 p.m. This is a hybrid event, so participants are welcome to join in person with a dish if they are comfortable or to Zoom…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and on Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led…
Join us on the Stockbridge Library lawn for a hands-on workshop demonstrating how a yogurt container and yarn can be transformed into colorful baskets that tell a story! For all ages! Workshop will be held indoors in case of rain. Special thanks to Berkshire Bank for funding this program.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN is an author, activist, and national public speaker.A founding editor and writer for Ms. Magazine, Pogrebin is also the author of twelve books, ten nonfiction and two novels, including the soon to be published Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy. Other recent titles include How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick, part memoir, part…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will…
This month's book club will feature River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard. Books and audiobooks are available for pick up at the circulation desk. This is a hybrid event, so feel free to attend in person or Zoom in!
Our apologies! Steven Greenhouse had to cancel this event.
George Rickey: A Life in Balance with Belinda Rathbone Join author of the new biography, George Rickey: A Life in Balance, Belinda Rathbone as she traces the story of Rickey’s evolutionary break from the familiar idiom of Calder’s invention – the mobile – to create a new language of kinetic sculpture all his own. Belinda Rathbone is…
Explore the Berkshires by visiting libraries across the county! Just pick up a passport at the first library you visit and then drive from library to library, collecting passport stamps, entering prize raffles, and making crafts to keep or share. Take a photo of yourself at each library along the way and tag us with…
Our Online Poetry Series returns on Tuesday, October 18 at 12:00 p.m. with Holly Iglesias. Holly Iglesias is the author of three poetry collections—Sleeping Things, Angles of Approach, and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World—and a critical work, Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry. Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council,…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will…
Alice Sedgwick Wohl is an independent scholar, translator, and local author. Her translations include The Life of Michelangelo by Ascanio Condivi, The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giovan Pietro Bellori, and On Antique Painting by Francisco de Hollanda. She will be speaking on her new book, As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy, in conversation…
Make a scarecrow on the front lawn of the Stockbridge Library to help us decorate for our 12th Annual Pumpkin Walk. The library will supply all of the materials for building the scarecrow, but you're welcome to bring your own clothing if you'd like to personalize your scarecrow. Best for children ages 4 and…
Berkshire Winds A Woodwind Quintet Saturday, October 22, 2023 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Doors open at 2:30 In the Bement Room at the Stockbridge Library Join us for some light music ideal for an autumn afternoon. Tap your feet to a polka, tango, waltz, bolero, rhumba, Cuban dances, and a Joplin rag. Listen…
Join us for our Online Poetry Series on Tuesday, October 25 at 12:00 p.m. featuring David O'Connell. David O’Connell’s first full-length collection, Our Best Defense, was published by Červená Barva Press in 2022. His poetry has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Copper Nickel, Tar River Poetry, and North American Review, among other journals. His chapbook, A Better Way to Fall, was awarded…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will…
The Stockbridge Halloween Parade and Pumpkin Walk will take place on Friday, October 28, 2022. Children can dress up in their Halloween costumes and meet at the corner of Main & Pine Street at 6:00 PM and march up Main Street to the front lawn of the Stockbridge Library for cider & donuts, a Halloween…
Travels With Witchcraft: A Historian Looks Back John Demos is the Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His books include ENTERTAINING SATAN: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, THE UNREDEEMED CAPTIVE: A Family Story From Early New England, THE HEATHEN SCHOOL: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic, and THE ENEMY…
Please join us for a benefit concert featuring pianist Emanual Ax at the Linde Center at Tanglewood on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. on Oct 30, 2022. Mr. Ax will announce the program from the stage. Please click here to purchase tickets. Tickets are available at the Stockbridge Library to purchase with cash or check only,…
Andrea Deeken was born in rural Missouri. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words, The Blue Mountain Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valley Voices, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest and second place in the 2020 Blue Mountain Review LGBTQ…
For the Stockbridge Library community and intermediate English language learners who want a space to listen and speak in English in a safe community. RSVP for the event with LitNet here. Jana Laiz, is a writer and educator living in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. She is the author of the award-winning novels Weeping Under This Same…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will…
Our November Cookbook Club will take place on Thursday, November 3 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. This month will feature One Pot, Pan, Planet by Anna Jones. Books will be available to check out at the circulation desk. New and returning faces are most welcome! If you are attending in person, feel free…
Join us for a lecture with Daniel Bullen on his new book on a different look at Shays's Rebellion. DANIEL BULLEN earned a PhD in American literature from New York University. He is the author of The Dangers of Passion: The Transcendental Friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller and The Love Lives of the Artists: Five Stories…
A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told. A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America’s dinner tables. We…
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