Herman Melville's Arrowhead

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

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

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: Bostonbookfest.org/schedule

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.

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

come and join us tonight!

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!

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!

Moby-Dick was published in the US #OnThisDay 1851 bbc.in/372hCmz

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

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.

Happy Halloween from all of us here at Arrowhead!

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

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. berkshireeagle.com/stories/holmes…

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. berkshireeagle.com/stories/arrowh…