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The Berkshires attractions

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Hancock Shaker Village

The serenity of the setting, among low hills and meadows, and the carefully considered placement of ... More
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Tanglewood Music Festival

Lenox is filled with music every summer, and the undisputed headliner is the Boston Symphony Orchest... More
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The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

In 1933, Ted Shawn decided to put on a show in the barn, and so was Jacob's Pillow born. After decad... More
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Within these walls are canvases by Renoir (34 of them), Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro,... More
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Norman Rockwell Museum

This striking building opened in 1993, at a cost of $4.4 million, to house the works of Stockbridge'... More
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Shakespeare & Company

The repertory company had long used buildings and amphitheaters on the grounds of The Mount to stage... More
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Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

A lot of excitement and anticipation surrounded this ambitious project, the conversion of an empty 2... More
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The Berkshire Theatre Festival

From June to August, and occasionally at other times during the year, The Berkshire Theatre Festival... More
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Mission House

The Rev. John Sergeant had the most benevolent, if paternalistic, of intentions: He sought to build ... More
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Naumkeag

In 1886, Stanford White designed this 26-room summer house for Joseph Hodge Choate, who served as U.... More
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The Mount, Edith Wharton Restoration

Wharton, who won a Pulitzer for her novel The Age of Innocence, was singularly equipped to write tha... More
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Santarella

With no obligatory historic homes or museums to see in Lee, visitors often make the short excursion ... More
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Berkshire Museum

It began in 1903 as the "Museum of Natural History and Art," words chiseled in stone above the entra... More
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Chesterwood

Sculptor Daniel Chester French, best known for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, used this est... More
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Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio

Built on 46 acres next to the Tanglewood property in the early 1940s, this Bauhaus-influenced house ... More
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Frommer's content excerpted from Frommer's New England, 13th Edition, Wiley Publishing, Inc.