Holiday shopping can be stressful, or it can be fun. It can be tiresome, or it can be entertaining. With the Shopping Getaway at our Berkshires Bed and Breakfast, our guests can complete all of their holiday shopping in a relaxing way while enjoying a few days in the beautiful Berkshires. Western Massachusetts is known [...]
Consider a few days in the cultural hotbed of the Western Massachusetts Berkshires. The area around our bed and breakfast Lenox, Lee, and Stockbridge have fantastic museums. The perfect time to explore them is now, while it is still cold and snowy outside. The Berkshire Museum, in Pittsfield has many great permanent exhibits, such as [...]
As winter weather approaches, guests of our Western Massachusetts lodging cast about for interesting ways to pass the time inside. Well, there is always something interesting happening at MASS MoCA, or the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The rotating exhibits are fascinating and often cutting edge. In addition, MoCa offers a wide array of live [...]
An upcoming exhibit at the nearby Norman Rockwell Museum is not to be missed. From November 7 through May 31, 2010, visitors to the Norman Rockwell Museum will be able to see hundreds of the artist’s artfully staged photographs. Studies for his paintings, these photographs are important works of art in their own right. Stockbridge [...]
One of the most reputable and unique art museums in the world is near our Berkshires bed and breakfast. The Clark Art Institute is both a first class art museum and a highly acclaimed research museum with a mission to “advancing and extending the public understanding of art.” It is also located in a rural [...]
Norman Rockwell is as American as apple pie. Our Massachsetts Inn is lucky enough to be less than 15 minutes from the Norman Rockwell Museum, which holds over 700 of his works! The Museum is in Stockbridge, MA. It holds the largest collection of his work, as well as many of his photographs and letters. [...]
Are you a fan of abstract art? Painting, frescos and sculpture? Well, very close to our Lenox Bed and Breakfast is the home-turned-museum of George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. Their home is on a 46-acre estate in Lenox, MA and features not only their work but their collection of American and European modern and [...]
One of the things I LOVE about the Berkshires and Massachusetts as a whole is the great array of cultural events to entertain. These plays, conversations and art openings become increasingly more important to me as the darkness of winter closes around us and we spend more and more time with our toes by the [...]
Len and I have recently been visiting some of the art galleries in the Berkshires. The Berkshires has a dynamic mix year round of contemporary art through its world-class collection of galleries. It is the home to an exciting array of living artists working in both abstract and representational styles to create sculptures, paintings, prints, [...]