April 18, 2012
Call Me Melville - A Preview of Events
Pittsfield Celebrates Herman Melville & His Works This Summer With Theatre, Art, History, Film, & an Online Community Reading of Moby Dick
The great American novel Moby Dick wasn’t written on a ship, or seashore: it was written in landlocked Pittsfield, in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, where a snow-covered Mount Greylock stood in for the legendary white whale. The City of Pittsfield and the Berkshire Historical Society, stewards of Melville’s historic Pittsfield
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Call Me Melville and The Melville Trail - An American Author Gets His Due
April 21st – September 3rd, 2012
The Melville Trail is a self-guided tour of a dozen sites in Berkshire County which influenced the life and writing of one of America’s most more
2011 Fundraising Campaign
It takes a community to preserve an icon. Memberships, tours and sponsorships do not cover all the costs associated with maintaining the home Mr. Melville lovingly called his "old farmhouse". Your support is vitally important to us. Please donate today.
Summer at Herman Melville’s Arrowhead Opens Satruday, May 26 at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday, May 26 at 11 a.m. – Opening Day
Under the umbrella of “The Genius of Place: Landscape and Inspiration”, Arrowhead will be exploring how landscape results in artistic expression—both Melville’s and those for whom Melville and Arrowhead are the landscape. Art installations in the large barn and an exhibit on Polynesia and sailing life which led to Sailor Art—scrimshaw, sailor valentines, primitive paintings and tattoos—will be on display all summer.
Monday, May 28 at 11 a.m.
Arrowhead kick-off for Pittsfield’s “Call Me Melville”“ celebration. The day features a reading of the third chapter; a scene from “Melville, Haunted,” and the house is, of course, open for tours at 10 a.m.
Also, don’t miss the public opening of the “Poetry Shanty” – Have a unique chance to catch inspiration and embrace your inner-author with the same view that shaped “Moby Dick.” The Poetry Shanty is a public space where are encouraged to write and post their own work.
