Friday,Saturday, Sunday…November 27th, 28th and 29th
 Lenox Village will celebrate Thanksgiving in New England with an “Antique and
  Vintage Collectible Show” at the Historic Lenox Town Meeting Hall. The Lenox Chamber of Commerce is helping the environment of the future by recycling the past with “Treasures and Memories of Olde”.   
 
Silent Auction will highlight this three day event.  
  Festivities begin on Friday November 27th, with an “Early Buying Cocktail and Hors D’oeuvres” from 5pm -8pm, featuring a “Silent Auction” to benefit the Chamber and local  food pantries.  The show on Saturday and Sunday will run from 10am till 4pm and will feature Country and Victorian Furniture, Vintage Jewelry and Collectibles, china, glass, art works, silver, pottery and glass.
 
Sunday’s show will feature Entertainment and Confections.

 Admission is $6.00 and includes a Discounted Shopping Pass to selected Lenox Chamber Shops and Restaurants.  “Friday Night Early Preview Party”…$25 per person.

 For information: Joan Basis at 413 637-4050/ Ralph Petillo 413-637-3646
 
Lenox Town Hall is located at 6 Walker Street in Historic Lenox Village!

Description

“For the ghost should never be allowed to forget that his only chance of survival is in the tale of those who have encountered him.”

Edith Wharton wrote those words many years ago, but they still seem particularly apt today. Whether using the latest technology or their old-fashioned senses, visitors to The Mount during this season’s inaugural Friday night ghost tours have reported a variety of eerie experiences from unexplained taps on the shoulders to the faint aroma of flowers and cigar smoke.

During Halloween week, the time of year when according to ancient folklore, communication between the spiritual and physical worlds is at its liveliest, The Mount will be hosting a series of events to tell tales, both ancient and new, and shiver the spines of all who care to venture forth.

Halloween Week Activities:

October 26-29 (Monday – Thursday)

3:30 p.m. Daily readings by members of The Mount’s staff of stories and poems by some of Wharton’s favorite ghost story writers including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, M.R. James, and Edith Wharton herself.  These readings are included in the price of admission to The Mount and will start each afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in the Drawing Room.

October 30 (Friday)

8:30 p.m. A reading, in collaboration with the Berkshire Theatre Festival, who made this year’s “Wharton on Wednesdays” so successful, of Edith Wharton’s famous gothic tale, The Lady’s Maid’s Bell. The reading, by BTF favorites Ariel Bock and Jonathan Epstein, will be held in the Drawing Room at The Mount. Admission is $10 and reservations are required. Please call (413) 551 – 5100.

October 31 HALLOWEEN (Saturday)

6:30 p.m. A special Halloween ghost tour of the stables and grounds to be followed by a reading in The Mount’s Drawing Room of Edith Wharton’s spine-tingling tale Kerfol performed by Ariel Bock and Jonathan Epstein of the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Price is $30 per adult and $15 for 16 and under and includes both tour and reading.

Costumes are encouraged during this special week. The tour is not suitable for children under 8, or people with limited mobility. Reservations are required, please call (413) 551-5111 or see www.edithwharton.org for more information.

“If it sends a cold shiver down one’s spine, it has done its job and done it well.”

Find out if Edith Wharton and her beloved house can still make spines shiver.  Celebrate Halloween at The Mount.

The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is in Great Barrington, 20 minutes from Brook Farm Inn.  Here’s the exciting lineup for the next couple of weeks!

Wednesday, October 28 at 7pm
$17 / $15 Mahaiwe Members

Two-time Grammy Award-winning
Singer Songwriter
RICKIE LEE JONES

Friday, October 30 at 8PM
$55 Golden Circle/ $45/$40 Mahaiwe Members

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center presents two-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones on Friday, October 30 at 8pm.

Rickie Lee Jones is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of our time. Her career spans some three decades of musical creation encompassing an eclectic range of genres: folk, rock, jazz, soul, spoken word, and pop. Her voice has a 40s-style jazz sensibility, distinguishing her from every other major singer in the modern era.

TimesTalks:
A Conversation with novelist Stephen King
“Live in HD”

Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm
$17 / $15 Mahaiwe Members

We very excited to bring you another great live HD digital cinema event to your community: BY Experience, in association with the New York Times, presents TimesTalks LIVE – one-of-a-kind, intimate discussions with some of today’s most fascinating film, TV and literary talents, interviewed by prize-winning New York Times journalists.

We are piloting this new concept with two events: conversations with novelist John Irving on Wednesday, October 28, and novelist Stephen King on Tuesday, November 10. Both events will be hosted at the Times Center in New York and broadcast LIVE in HD to The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington!

Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats
Formidable feats of daring and balance!
Evening Show plus 10 AM Family Matinee -
ask about Special Field Trip pricing!

Friday, November 13 at 10 am & 8pm
$37 / $32 Members / $20 Balcony

The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats perform their trademark acrobatics, balancing feats, marital arts displays, and more. A show for all ages, the grace and precision of the acrobats are the triumph of years of dedicated training and discipline, but their art has been formed by centuries of tradition. The morning performance will be a special field trip presentation for local school students; the evening performance is open to the general public.

There’s still time to get tickets for some music performances this weekend!  On Friday, October 16th, there’s “I’m A Boomer Baby,” a musical tribute by Dan Riley, at the Colonial Theatre.  Also at the Colonial, on Sunday the 18th at 2:00, there will be a performance by the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra and the Williams Concert Choir, featuring works from movies and Mussorgky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”  Also, this is the final weekend of the Pittsfield City Jazz Festival.  So there are choices for everyone’s musical taste, and it’s all within minutes of Brook Farm Inn, Lenox Massachusetts.

The leaves are changing.  Northern Vermont has peaked and the brilliant colors are coming toward the Berkshires.  On our home page you can link to suggested driving tour to see the best scenery.  There is also an  interactive peak foliage map from the Boston Globe.  or you can click on the links below.  According to the pr editions we will not reach peak in Lenox until the second half of October.  Our central location makes viewing the foliage ideal.  If you are here before peak you can easily drive up route #7 toward Williamstown for peak colors.  If you miss peak in Lenox you are only a short drive to Beartown State Forest just to our south. 

Peak Foliage Map

Berkshires Leaf Peeping Scenic Driving Tours