To honor the centennial of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Berkshire Magazine has set up self-guided trail around the Berkshires highlighting traces of our 16th President. Pop in to see our two bronze castings and bronze reproduction by Daniel Chester French!
Join us for Cookbook Club at the Library or on Zoom. This month’s cookbook selection is That Sounds so Good by Carla Lalli Music. Copies are available for loan at the Library. Prepare a recipe to share and bring it to the library or share your experience with us via Zoom.
PETER SCHMITT is the author of six collections of poems: Goodbye, Apostrophe (forthcoming in 2020 from Regal House); Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books); Hazard Duty, and Country Airport (Copper Beech Press); and two chapbooks, Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, and To Disappear (Pudding House). He has received The Lavan Award…
June's Book Club will be featuring Tony Horwitz's book Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide." According to the publisher: "With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape…
On Thursday, June 9th at 6:00 p.m. Robert D. Kaplan will be speaking at the Stockbridge Library Association in conversation with Jim Brooke. His new book, Adriatic will be on sale at the event. ROBERT D. KAPLAN is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including…
Join us on the Stockbridge Library lawn for some sheep-y fun brought to us by Amanda Barcencas of Prado de Lana! There will be a sheep shearing demonstration, a working dog presentation, crafts and a sheep-themed storytime, and artisan vendors at the Prado de Lana shop, which is located right around the corner from our…
From the author of Swimming to Antarctica and Grayson comes the moving, inspiring story of Al, the ungainly, unruly, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog—part of Italy’s elite, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives. Tales of Al is the story…
On Thursday, June 16 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the Stockbridge Library will have a selection of books available to the residents of Heaton Court. We're thrilled to be able to offer this service!
Emily Pérez is the author House of Sugar, House of Stone and the chapbooks Backyard Migration Route and Made and Unmade. She graduated with honors from Stanford University and earned an MFA at the University of Houston, where she served as a poetry editor for Gulf Coast and taught with Writers in the Schools. A…
On Thursday, June 16th at 6:00 p.m. Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack (Ret.) will be in conversation with Jim Brooke at the Stockbridge Library Association. Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack (Ret.) served as the United States Senior Defense Official and Attaché to the Russian Federation during the challenging years of 2012-2014. This period included Russia’s first…
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…
Stockbridge Library will hold its annual Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, June 21st. All members of the community are welcomed and encouraged to stop by to discuss anything from up-coming events, to things you'd like to see at the library, to questions and concerns. Best of all, there will be free ice cream graciously…
Cynthia Bargar "My poems have appeared in many journals including Gargoyle, Rogue Agent, Book of Matches, LUMINA Literary Journal, Comstock Review, Driftwood Press, Loch Raven Review, and Stoneboat Literary Journal. My prose poem, “Beach at St. Mary’s,” is included in the new book of images and text, Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits by Barbara E. Cohen (Provincetown Arts Press, 2021). Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room is…
Join us at the Stockbridge Library Association for this collaboration with LitNet of South Berkshire.
On Saturday, June 25, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., the Stockbridge Bowl Association will be kicking off its 75th Anniversary Celebration with the opening of an exhibit in the SLA Bement Room.
Ken Haas, the son of European immigrants, was born in New York City. He attended college, law school, and business school at Harvard University, and received an MA in English literature at the University of Sussex, U.K., where he wrote his dissertation on Wallace Stevens. Ken now divides his time between San Francisco, CA, where…
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 – 12:00 This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will gently follow the…
Join us on the Library lawn for a performance by the Olga Dunn Dance Company!
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