The book Who Knew? Roadside Revelations in Western Massachusetts delves into the history of local curiosities “hidden” in plain sight. It is a travel guide, an accessible history, and an offbeat love letter to Western Mass. The book explores local oddities, explodes tall tales, and gives insight into things locals many have wondered about, but never stopped…

Author Kumiko Makihara's great-great-grandfather was a low-ranking samurai from a poor village in southwestern Japan. Fiercely intelligent and audaciously ambitious, he went on to found the Mitsubishi business empire. His successors -- his younger brother, his son, and his nephew – were equally colorful and capable. Makihara will trace her family history which parallels the…

Join us for a talk with author and Berkshire Eagle columnist Ruth Bass.  She is the author of Sarah’s Daughter, Rose, A Silver Moon for Rose and the newly published prequel, Sarah Meets Silas.  Bass will discuss writing both novels and a weekly column.   Visit Ruth Bass's website   The event will take place in the Bement Room…

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.…

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…

Our apologies! Steven Greenhouse had to cancel this event.

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…

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…

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…

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…