According to the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, this year’s Foliage Season is expected to be a memorable one. Lenox MA is the most centrally located spot for viewing fall colors. You can go hiking, bicycle riding , horseback riding, hot air ballooning, or simply drive your car. Here is a link to suggested driving routes: Fall [...]
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Emily Dickinson in Words and Song
September 11th, 2010 by philhalpern
LENOX, MA. — The Cantilena Chamber Choir will present a concert, “Emily Dickinson in Words & Song” on Sunday, Oct. 10, at 5 p.m. The performance at Trinity Church will feature music by Aaron Copland: “Emily Dickinson Songs” and Eliot Carter: “Musicians Wrestle Everywhere,” “Heart Not So Heavy. Also on the program is Samuel Barber’s [...]
Summer Play: Revels and Revelations
August 18th, 2010 by philhalpern
Ventfort Hall Mansion and The Gilded Age Museum Written and Directed by Juliane Hiam Starring Andi Bohs Produced by Ventfort Hall in cooperation with Shakespeare & Company The extraordinary life of Belle da Costa Greene, perhaps the most influential woman of the Gilded Age that you’ve never heard of! A story of books, art, [...]
The Taster takes the stage!
August 5th, 2010 by philhalpern
Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer directs the world premiere of acclaimed Berkshire’s playwright Joan Ackermann’s mystical and magical tale of love, loyalty and desire. The Taster features Founding Company member and OBIE-award winning actor Rocco Sisto and renowned opera singer Maureen O’Flynn in this transformative tale that flows through memory and across time. The play [...]
Hummingbirds Return to Brook Farm Inn
May 22nd, 2010 by philhalpern
This morning at breakfast guests of Brook Farm Inn were delighted to see hummingbirds at the feeder outside the dining room window. Additionally, we were visited by an indigo bunting and a pileated woodpecker visited the tree stump in our back yard. After living most of my life in urban areas where wildlife was squirrels [...]
Berkshire Horseback Adventures Visits Brook Farm Inn
May 15th, 2010 by philhalpern
Today we had a visit from our friends Brian and Charlotte from Aspinwall Adult Equestrian Center. They stopped by on two beautiful Icelandic horses. They dropped off some brochures for Berkshire Horseback Adventures. Many of our guests enjoy riding along the beautiful shaded trails of Kennedy Park and Lenox Mountain. You can enjoy breathtaking views [...]
New Website for the Brook Farm Inn
March 26th, 2010 by philhalpern
Brook Farm Inn is proud to unveil our new website, built by InsideOut Solutions, featuring this blog, a new photo gallery, fantastic new photography of the inn, and lots of great maps and content about our bed and breakfast, and about Lenox and the Berkshires. There is of course still poetry here, and throughout our [...]
Berkshires B&B Recommends This Comedy, Jan. 29th Weekend
January 25th, 2010 by philhalpern
At Brook Farm Inn, Lenox MA, we recommend this wonderful theater experience to put a smile on your face this weekend. There’s no need to ask, “Wherefore art thou?” if you’re looking for hilarity. Everything, yes, everything the Bard wrote is slammed by a mighty wind; nothing can avoid the slings and arrows! The first production [...]
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA APPOINTS ANDRIS NELSONS
“On The Town” Comes to the Berkshires in June
Berkshire International Film Festival May 30-June 2