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Jacob’s Pillow
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Dance Festival
This woodsy mountaintop
retreat in Becket is the
venue for performances
by top­flight dance com­
panies from around the
world, as well as work­
shop productions of
edgy new choreography
(see p81).
North Adams
8
This erstwhile
factory town at the west
end of the Mohawk Trail
has embraced the art
world and vice versa. It
is best known for Mass
MoCA (see p40), where
provocative contemporary
art fills a former factory.
Hancock
9
Shaker Village
Now converted to a
museum that brings
the Shaker story to life,
Hancock was among
Williamstown the most influential of
North
Adams 19th­century Shaker
communities. Its Round
8 Adams
Barn is considered to be a
7 New Ashford masterpiece of vernacular
Berkshire architecture (see p39).
Pittsfield 9
Tanglewood
Stockbridge
Great
4 6 0
Lenox 8 American Barrington Music Center
illustrator Norman A vibrant mix of artists, The summer home of
Becket Rockwell (1894–1978)
Stockbridge artisans, savvy business the Boston Symphony
Great modeled his nostalgic folk, and New Age Orchestra (below) since
Barrington 90 treatments of rural visionaries makes Great 1940, Tanglewood Music
7 American life on the Barrington easily the Center also hosts jazz,
people and buildings of hippest town in the chamber music, and
this slow­paced village Berkshires, as well as popular music concerts,
(above), dominated by a gateway to antiques and in summer operates
the Red Lion Inn. shopping on Route 7 an important music
south of town. education program.
Lenox
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A quaint village
surrounded by grand
houses and vast estates
largely built as summer
“cottages” between 1880
and 1910, Lenox is the
epicenter of luxury shop­
ping and the sum mer
performing arts scene.
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