Herman Melville's Arrowhead

Herman Melville's home in Pittsfield, the heart of the Berkshires in Massachusetts. Now home to the Berkshire Historical Society.

[Boston Book Festival @bostonbookfest]

Here's for all #TheBerkshires book lovers: head out to @Arrowhead1850 in Pittsfield to see if you can find #BBF2020 author @Rishi_Reddi's book PASSAGE WEST! #BBFBookHunt #BBFOnlinenandOutside #BBFOctober2020

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Find PASSAGE WEST here at Melville's Pittsfield home! You can see Mount Greylock from where this book is hidden! #BBFBookHunt #BBF2020 @bostonbookfest

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Thanks to @BerkshiresToday for featuring our #BBFBookHunt, which is at Melville's @Arrowhead1850 & Edith Wharton's @TheMountLenox. Find books hidden on their beautiful properties TODAY & join BBF online all October from anywhere. Full schedule: https://t.co/wqrcf2tcx5

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Find PASSAGE WEST here at Melville's Pittsfield home! You can see Mount Greylock from where this book is hidden! #BBFBookHunt #BBF2020 @bostonbookfest

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It's on! The massive #BBFBookHunt has started! Book elves have been hiding books by #BBF2020 authors across Boston and in #Concord, #Amherst, #TheBerkshires and #Hartford, CT. Follow here all day for clues to find books in your neighborhood. What you find, you keep.

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from our collection: a page from a Denninson Christmas catalog!

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come and join us tonight!

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Come and join us for Holiday Lights here at Arrowhead, tomorrow at 6:30pm! The house is cozy and candlelit, and we will have readings and refreshments!

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Come and join us for Holiday Lights here at Arrowhead, tomorrow at 6:30pm! The house is cozy and candlelit, and we will have readings and refreshments!

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This weekend is the last Saturday we're open until May! Come and see the view that inspired Moby Dick- a snow covered Greylock. If you bring your snowshoes you can check out our nature trails!

[In Our Time @BBCInOurTime]

Moby-Dick was published in the US #OnThisDay 1851 https://t.co/Dbi6FLYucF

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Did you know that the first published book in the Berkshires was Catharine Sedgwick's "A New England Tale" published in 1822

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Tomorrow is Election Day, make sure to get out and cast your vote!

Norman Rockwell, 1944 “Which One?” was a cover for The Saturday Evening Post during the presidential race between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey. Licensed by Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN.

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Happy Halloween from all of us here at Arrowhead!

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Do you happen to know what this object is? It is the inspiration for something we know today. This object is from the early 1900s. #GuessThatHistoricalObject #ReplyTweet

[Berkshire Eagle @BerkshireEagle]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a frequent visitor. Herman Melville lived just down the street. Holmesdale, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.'s historic 19th-century estate on Holmes Road, has had its share of famous visitors. And now it has new owners. https://t.co/04s6KIlevX

[Berkshire Landscapes @BerkLandscapes]

Do you know who Lucretia Williams was? Or Anna Laurens Dawes? Get to know more about them during @Arrowhead1850's walking tour of Pittsfield Cemetery on Thursday.
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