Take a break from the cultural richness of the Berkshires and head out into the wilderness for a hike. Nothing calms the mind like being surrounded by trees and magnificent rock formations. You will feel refreshed and ready either to head back to Tanglewood or go straight to your Berkshires bed and breakfast for a [...]
We get quite a few avid hikers at our Berkshires bed and breakfast. Given our proximity to the Berkshires, that is no surprise. We encourage all you trail walkers to check out our Hiker’s Special. After a healthy breakfast at Applegate Inn, we will give you a trail map, water bottles and snacks, and point [...]
Tanglewood takes it name from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Tanglewood Tales”, which Hawthorn wrote in 1850 while staying in a little red house by the shores of Lake Mahkeenac, on grounds owned by the Tappan family. The head of the Tappan family was so charmed by Hawthorn’s book that he re-named his property in honor of [...]
The Mount is the self-designed estate & gardens of Pulitzer-prize winning Edith Wharton, author of “The Age of Innocence”, “The House of Mirth”, as well as many other novels and non-fiction books on the subject of Architecture, design, decoration and travel.
Her home is a work of art, worthy of the seven-minute drive from our Bed [...]
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.
The museum [...]
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 [...]
There are lots of delicious eats near our little Bed and Breakfast in the Berkshires! Almost anything you could imagine is available within a 10-mile radius of Lee.
I thought I would just take a minute to talk about some of the most popular eateries in the region.
The Cranwell Golf Resort has some very nice high-end [...]
There is currently a truly fabulous and beautiful exhibit at the Mass MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art). The piece is called “Being Here is Better Then Wishing We’d Stayed”. The exhibit is about the Miss Rockaway Armada, a group of travelers, adventurers, artists and musicians whom spent the summers of 2006 and 2007 floating [...]
For 4 more days, a wonderful performance is at the Unicorn Theater in nearby Stockbridge.
Very appropriate for this exciting election time, and personally engaging for me around issues of gender, the one-woman play “Eleanor” was a wonderful production.
Written by Rhoda Lerman and directed by Stephen Temperley, the play was about the inner growth of
Eleanor Roosevelt. [...]
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 [...]