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Groovy Recycled Tshirt Bags by Crispina: Make Your Own!

In this day of excessive consumption and unprecedented global waste, plastic is found in our soil, it pollutes our oceans, and rivers.  Re-Usable bags are easy to make with very little skill and in virtually no time!  From an environmental standpoint, ReUseable bags are really the only way to shop, travel, organize, and accessorize.  (Just [...] Continue reading

Handmade Holiday Festival Preview PARTY!

The P R E V I E W P A R T Y to the Handmade Holiday Festival is not to be missed!!

More and more people are looking to make the holidays more meaningful. The Handmade Holiday Festival is a reprieve from the consumption craze put out by the big box stores… Our shoppers walk up a pathway lit by sparkling lights and Christmas trees, into the beautiful former Notre Dame church with the sounds of wandering minstrels echoing up to the high ceilings. Continue reading

Scott Taylor And Michael Cohen Open “Two Friends” At Shawn’s Barber Shop

On Friday, November 25, yes “Black Friday“, ironically enough, Art On No‘s Scott Taylor opened a colorful show with Michael Cohen at Shawn’s Barber Shop, another great example of the mixed-use venues proliferating in downtown Pittsfield. An enthusiastic crowd gathered … Continue reading Continue reading

In Memoriam Exhibit on view

The Athenaeum’s Local History & Genealogy Department has mounted an exhibit, In Memoriam, in the Blake Reading Room, on the library’s main floor. The exhibit is presented in  honor of Veterans Day (November 11) as well as Pearl Harbor Day (December 7), in conjunction with Pittsfield’s 250th Anniversary Celebration. The exhibit includes photos of and [...] Continue reading

November is Food for Fines month!

We will be offering a modified fines amnesty from Tuesday, November 1, through Wednesday, November 30. During this four-week period the library will accept non‑perishable food items in lieu of paying fines for overdue books. According to Library Director Ron Latham, “This has become an annual tradition at the Berkshire Athenaeum, which has linked an [...] Continue reading