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Church Street Cafe is Open

Friday, May 8th, 2009

At Brook Farm Inn, we know that  Church Street Cafe, in Lenox Massachusetts,  is among our guests’ favorite restaurants.  Tonight it will open for the season.  So check out the menu at www.churchstreetcafe.biz.   And when you stay with us, we’ll be glad to arrange dinner reservations for you at the restaurant.

Complimentary Golf in the Scenic Berkshires

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

At Brook Farm Inn, Lenox Massachusetts, we’re offering a special golf package.  The weather is gorgeous, and the golf course has beautiful Berkshires scenery to enjoy.  Here’s the deal:

During May and June enjoy two complimentary 9 hole rounds of golf at the award winning Greenock Country Club with any two night stay at Brook Farm Inn.  (Tee times are subject to availability and cart fees are extra)
Offer ends June 25th, 2009 .
 
 
 
 
 

Boston Globe Recommends Brook Farm Inn Poetry Event

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

We were delighted to be mentioned in this past Sunday’s Boston Globe, in Jan Gardner’s “Shelf Life” column.  See http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/04/26/a_fighting_chance/

We’ve long been fans of Ms. Gardner’s column, where she mentions book picks and literary events that you otherwise might not know about.  She has mentioned the poetry event, “The Four Seasons of Edna St. Vincent Millay,” which will take place at 3:00 on Saturday, May 16th, at Brook Farm Inn in Lenox Massachusetts.  For more information, go to www.brookfarm.com.

Theater in the Berkshires, April 24, 25, & 26

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

This weekend is going to be warm and sunny in the Berkshires, and there’s lots to do.  Here are some theater performances, all of which are just minutes from Brook Farm Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts:

“Moonchildren” at Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, 413-644-4235

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“Doubt” at Barrington Stage Co.’s Stage 2, Pittsfield, 413-443-9279

“A Tennessee Williams Menagerie,” Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge.  Presented by Aglet Theatre Co., 860-435-6928.

Peter Bergman Discusses Edna St. Vincent Millay

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

We look forward to our special event at Brook Farm Inn in Lenox Massachusetts on May 16th, featuring Peter Bergman, director of the Millay Society.  We hope you can come.  But if not, you can catch Peter at the Stockbridge Library on Sunday, April 19th at 4:00. 

 

 

April is National Poetry Month

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

At Brook Farm Inn, Lenox Massachusetts, we’re pleased to say “There is poetry here.” It’s not just a phrase, because we share our library of poetry books with our guests, and have readings sometimes — there’s one coming up on May 16th.  Since April is National Poetry Month, here’s a poem about the Inn:

Feeling At Home in the Library at Brook Farm Inn

I think I could happily live in this one room,

high-ceilinged enough to let my thoughts soar.

This space has the most important things–

walls full of books to explore, comfortable seats,

a solid old piano of some dark wood whose keys

invite fingers to roam, warm board flooring

and homey rugs.  A frieze of books

marches around the ceiling, setting the theme.

There is a serenity here you can feel,

and warmth…Ah, yes, I can tell

I could be content to live in a room like this.

Concert this Weekend, With Discount for Brook Farm Inn Guests

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
                                                      
 
A NIGHT OF QUINTETS
PREMIERE OF KLEZMER-INSPIRED
STRING QUINTET AND
SCHUBERT’S HEAVENLY LAST STATEMENT
 
DANKNER, BOCCHERINI AND SCHUBERT
ARE HIGHLIGHTS
MARCH 28 AT
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC’S
MAHAIWE PAC PERFORMANCE

When you stay at Brook Farm Inn, in Lenox Massachusetts, this weekend, a discount on tickets to this memorable concert will be available to you.

“Take a Hike” Special at Brook Farm Inn

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Guests of Brook Farm Inn can enjoy the beauty of the Berkshires this spring with our new special, “Take A Hike.”  We’ve hiked many of the local trails, and can offer suggestions and advice. In addition, the special includes a trail map and discount coupon for  Pleasant Valley, which is right in Lenox Massachusetts. It’s a Mass Audubon wildlife refuge, unsurpassed for groomed wooded trails and a superb view at the top of Lenox Mountain.  We’ll also include water bottles and healthy snacks.  See our Packages page at www.brookfarm.com/packages.html.

Tanglewood Pre-Concert Lectures

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Here’s our recommendation for enjoying the Tanglewood concerts twice as much — sign up for Jeremy Yudkin’s  Summer Music Seminars!  Even though we still have snow on the ground, it’s not too early to register.  We’ve attended his lectures, and we agree with these testimonials:

“The best teacher on any subject I’ve ever had!”

“I’ll never listen to music the same way again.”

“He makes the Tanglewood concerts truly come alive!”

Jeremy Yudkin, Professor of Music at Boston and Oxford Universities, and Lecturer at Tanglewood since 1983, is a brilliant and entertaining presenter. Lectures are given on Friday and Saturday afternoons, in anticipation of the weekend’s concerts.

All lectures take place in the Welles Gallery of the Lenox Library, situated in the middle of Lenox, Massachusetts, at 18 Main Street.  It’s a five-minute walk from Brook Farm Inn. Musical expertise is definitely not required, and registration entitles you to discounts on Tanglewood tickets.

More information is at Jeremy’s website www.summermusicseminars.org. Please tell him you were referred by Brook Farm Inn!

 

Close Encounters With Music presents Fanny Mendelssohn, in Lenox on Sunday

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Tea and Talk, a program at Close Encounters With Music is one we don’t intend to miss.  It’s on Sunday, March 15 in Lenox, within walking distance of Brook Farm Inn.  Award-winning composer Judith Lang Zaimont, recipient of National Endowments and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, mixes piano performance with her skills as a raconteuse at the Lenox Athenaeum, Winthrop Estate, 101 Yokun Avenue, Lenox, Massachusetts.  $25 admission includes light refreshments.

This installment of Conversations With… is timed to celebrate International Womens Day and Festival of the Arts 2009, which we’ve mentioned in earlier blog posts. and will touch on the phenomenon of the Salon and how the women who ran them opened up the possibility of intellectual discourse during an otherwise repressive era in Prussia. It features demonstrations on the piano of Zaimont’s own works and those of Fanny Mendelssohn, composed in spite of the discouragement she received from her family and society.
For reservations, call 800/843-0778 or www.cewm.org


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