Come on down to the Procter Gallery on our lower level (accessible by elevator and stairs) and enjoy some history of the Women of Stockbridge. The current exhibit contains images and artifacts from our permanent collection, focusing on some of the women who called Stockbridge home.
“Ukrainians and Their Pets, Watercolor Studies of Love and Resilience,” captures intimate moments between Ukrainians and their animals since that country was invaded in February 2022. Created by Lenox native Debbie Hanson Greene, the series depicts families fleeing their homes with their pets to face uncertain futures, while soldiers and civilians rescue abandoned pets along…
Click here to join today's poetry session. Julia Lisella’s latest collection of poems, Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press), was named a finalist in the 2023 Paterson Book Prize and Grand Prize Finalist and Poetry Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Her other collections include Always, Terrain, and the chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly, The Common,…
Creative Composition through Photography. Grades 9-12, Berkshire Waldorf High School. The photographs in this exhibit are from an elective art class, one that focused on fieldwork rather than the darkroom or more technical methods of digital photography. Most photographs were taken with phone cameras. Each day, the students were given an assignment designed to guide…
¿Estás aprendiendo español y quiere la oportunidad para hablar con otras? ¡Practica tu español con nosotros! Practice your Spanish language skills at the Stockbridge Library on the first Monday of every month! This program is an opportunity for Spanish language learners to practice their conversation skills through fun games, activities, and conversation topics as well…
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Click here for today's online poetry Julie Danho’s first full-length collection, Those Who Keep Arriving, won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and her poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and New Ohio Review as well as featured on The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She has…
We invite all home chefs and budding culinarians to join us for our March Cookbook Club meeting! This month’s featured book is Korean American by Eric Kim. Here’s how the Cookbook Club works: Each of us will prepare a recipe from this month’s cookbook. Copies are available at the library to check out. We will meet…
Roxana Robinson is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books, two as New York Times Editors’ Choices. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, The Southampton Review, Ep!phany and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and…
Need website help? Look no further! Join Glenn Geiger from Gemini Creative for our weekly one-on-one website help sessions, every Wednesday. Whether you’re designing a website from scratch, organizing your content, or boosting your SEO game, we’ve got you covered. Get expert guidance on website builders and standing out on Google. Don’t miss out—book your…
Click here for the link to join this session. Kathryn Petruccelli Workshop leader, teacher, and writer with roots in spoken word, Kathryn holds an MA in teaching English language learners. Through her work—much of which involves themes of language and place—she hopes to inspire folks to examine cultural habits and other invisible forces. Her poetry…
Click here to join us virtually. Join us for our hybrid March Book Club as we'll be reading The Art Thief by Michael Finkel. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
Dress up in your favorite Taylor Swift look to dance and sing along to the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie at the Stockbridge Library! The movie starts promptly at 4pm and has an estimated run time of over 3 hours. If you are only able to attend for part of the movie due to…
Harold Holzer is the recipient of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, Holzer was appointed chairman of the US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission by President Bill Clinton and awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. He…
Need website help? Look no further! Join Glenn Geiger from Gemini Creative for our weekly one-on-one website help sessions, every Wednesday. Whether you’re designing a website from scratch, organizing your content, or boosting your SEO game, we’ve got you covered. Get expert guidance on website builders and standing out on Google. Don’t miss out—book your…
Click here to join the poetry session. Karren LaLonde Alenier is editor of From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons and author of eight poetry collections, including How We Hold On (Broadstone, 2021). She writes a monthly column for Scene4 Magazine called The Steiny Road to Operadom. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump…
Recently, ice yachts were seen on Stockbridge Bowl and it gained quite a bit of interest. Join us for an interesting session to learn about this age-old sport. Ice yachting might be new to Stockbridge, but it has been around since the 1600's when the Dutch brought the activity to the Hudson River Valley, to…
Need website help? Look no further! Join Glenn Geiger from Gemini Creative for our weekly one-on-one website help sessions, every Wednesday. Whether you’re designing a website from scratch, organizing your content, or boosting your SEO game, we’ve got you covered. Get expert guidance on website builders and standing out on Google. Don’t miss out—book your…
Click here to join the poetry session. John W. Maxwell was born in 1960 into a working-class family of eight in rural Michigan. He quietly began writing poetry for himself at age 12. His writing continued throughout high school and college, cataloging the struggles of adolescence and young adulthood. He stashed them in a raggedy…
¿Estás aprendiendo español y quiere la oportunidad para hablar con otras? ¡Practica tu español con nosotros! Practice your Spanish language skills at the Stockbridge Library on the first Monday of every month! This program is an opportunity for Spanish language learners to practice their conversation skills through fun games, activities, and conversation topics as well…
Ten years ago, Dana picked up a camera for the first time in an attempt to create photos as gifts for family members. She had no way of knowing at the time that photography would open a gateway of creativity for her and become such a big part of her life. Dana is a thirty…
Need website help? Look no further! Join Glenn Geiger from Gemini Creative for our weekly one-on-one website help sessions, every Wednesday. Whether you’re designing a website from scratch, organizing your content, or boosting your SEO game, we’ve got you covered. Get expert guidance on website builders and standing out on Google. Don’t miss out—book your…
Join us on Thursday, April 4, for our monthly Cookbook Club. We’ll be using Tenderheart: a cookbook about vegetables and unbreakable family bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon. This month we will meet on Zoom. Please CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE ZOOM MEETING!
This event is co-sponsored by Chesterwood Arts Alive! and Stockbridge Library Association. In many ways, aging is at the heart of poetry. It brings, more immediately, a bittersweet awareness of transience. In Keat’s “Ode to Autumn” he asks, “Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?/Think not of them, thou hast thy music…
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