Archive for the 'Berkshires' Category

Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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. [...]

Frelinghuysen Morris Home in Lenox

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

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 [...]

Dining the Berkshires

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

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 [...]

One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

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 [...]

Culture in the Community

Friday, October 31st, 2008

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 [...]

Tanglewood Jazz Festival

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

We are all eager for the Tanglewood Jazz Festival coming up on Labor Day weekend! You can already feel the excitement in the air around here. I have been getting reservations for Labor Day weekend as soon as Tanglewood announced their line up for the Jazz Festival. If you are planing to come, be sure [...]

Berkshire County Kayaking

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I have been kayaking throughout Berkshire County for the past three years.  I have come to enjoy this sport with several friends.  We use an Appalachian Mountain Club guidebook to help us discover new places each week. I’ve also gotten a lot of tips about where to go from the Berkshire Outfitters, http://www.berkshireoutfitters.com/. We have [...]

Berkshires Art Galleries

Monday, June 9th, 2008

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, [...]

Flat Stanley Visits the Berkshires

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Flat Stanley came to the Berkshires this winter to have a look-see and it turned out that his blitz would hardly touch the surface of what is going on here. He came from New Jersey. courtesy of our grandson Aaron, who was assigned to send the little man off somewhere. We were chosen as the [...]