“Gilded Stockbridge” takes a peek inside Mabel Choate's Naumkeag and features some of the home’s treasures, including porcelain pieces from Mabel’s world-renowned “Lowestoft” china collection, artwork by her mother and no-nonsense summer hats and garden tools used to transform Naumkeag into the beautiful public museum and gardens of today. As part of the exhibit, we also invite you to…
Swedish-born Gunilla Theander Kester is an award-winning poet and author of If I Were More Like Myself (The Writer's Den, 2015). Her two poetry chapbooks, Mysteries I-XXIII (2011) and Time of Sand and Teeth (2009), were published by Finishing Line Press. She was co-editor of The Empty Chair: Love and Loss in the Wake of…
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…
Discover some common birds that inhabit the Berkshires in the winter. We’ll learn how to identify the birds, where to find the birds, and what behaviors birds may exhibit during the coldest time of year. Laura Beltran spent hours of her childhood immersed in an imaginative world that she and her friends created while playing outdoors. Time…
Join us for an evening with the Olga Dunn Dance Company on Friday, December 2 at 5:00 p.m. The Company will perform The Nutcracker Seedling & More! followed by a meet and greet with the dancers. The ODDCo. will return for another performance of The Nutcracker Seedling & More! on Saturday, December 3 at 2:30…
Join us for a day of winter fun at the Stockbridge Library! All day long we will have a craft table available where children can decorate a snowflake, we'll have indoor winter games and a scavenger hunt, and we'll have an outdoor StoryWalk© and decorated gardens that you can walk through. At 10:45 a.m. on…
Please join us at 2:30 on Saturday, December 3 for an Olga Dunn Dance Company performance of The Nutcracker Seedling & More!, followed by a meet and greet with the dancers! After, families are welcome to check out our collection of nutcrackers, and there will be a craft put on by our Youth Librarian. More…
Join us for a day of winter fun at the Stockbridge Library! All day long we will have a craft table available where children can decorate a snowflake, we'll have indoor winter games and a scavenger hunt, and we'll have an outdoor StoryWalk© and decorated gardens that you can walk through. At 10:30 a.m. on…
Storytime with award-winning audiobook narrator and bestselling novelist Alison Larkin. To celebrate the brand new audiobook release of Peter Rabbit and other Stories by Beatrix Potter, writer/comedienne Alison Larkin reads from Winnie-the-Pooh & Peter Rabbit and answers questions! Visit Alison's audiobook website here.www.alisonlarkinpresents.com "Alison Larkin is hugely entertaining...marvelously light footed." The Times (London) …
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,…
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…
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…
For our December Cookbook Club, we will be sharing our favorite cookies and recipes! There is no set cookbook for this meeting at this time.
Lisken Van Pelt Dus is a poet, teacher, and martial artist, raised in England, the US, and Mexico, and now living in Massachusetts. Her work can be found in such journals as Conduit, The South Carolina Review, qarrtsiluni, and upstreet, and has earned awards and honors from The Comstock Review, The Atlanta Review, and Cider…
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…
RONALD BARRON was Principal Trombonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1975 until 2008. He joined the orchestra in 1970 after being a member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and also served as Principal Trombonist of the Boston Pops for thirteen seasons. Mr. Barron is a graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of…
James Davis is a teacher, editor, and author of the poetry collection Club Q (Waywiser 2020), which Edward Hirsch selected for the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize. His work has been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio, as well as in Best New Poets, Nashville Review, Copper Nickel, fourteen poems, and Bennington Review. He serves as Poetry Editor for American Literary Review and an Associate Poetry Editor…
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…
Make a wintery themed snack at the Stockbridge Library out of marshmallows and graham crackers!
Join us on Tuesday, December 27 from 4pm to 5pm for a fun night of canvas painting. While painting, enjoy some hot chocolate and a treat! For young adults ages 12 to 18. Please call 413-298-5501 or email rnicholson@cwmars.org to sign-up.
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…
Stop by the Stockbridge Library anytime between 2pm and 4pm on December 28 to make a tower, bridge, house and more out of toothpicks and mini-marshmallows!
Decorate a paper snowman with sequins, feathers, pipe cleaners, buttons, and more!
View the moon, stars, and planets from a telescope on the library front lawn. Rick Costello, amatuer astronomer and local Stockbridge resident, will be present to help guide people on where to look and answer any questions. This event is for all ages. Bad weather will reschedule the event for Friday, January 6. Please…
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