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Berkshires Regional Histories


Read about the history of Sheffield, Great Barrington, Route 7 to Pittsfield, and much, much more.

We also stock a complete line of local and regional historical books on Berkshire towns including:
* Stockbridge, West Stockbridge and Lenox
* Sheffield, Great Barrington, Monterey and Otis, MA
* The Hudson Valley, the Catskills and the Adirondacks


The Appalachian Trail Reader (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)

by Emblidge, David




Anthology of writings about the Trail and its environment, from Thoreau and Whitman to anonymous hikers sharing the day's events in notebooks at overnight shelters...

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Berkshire Cottages

by Owens, Carole



This book offers the Berkshire Hills traveler the unique opportunity of standing in two centuries at once. This tour of 19th century "cottages" (mansions), can be experienced today in their 20th century incarnations as inns, restaurants and historic sites. This book will guide the reader to a vanishing era...


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Art and the River: Views and Visions of the Housatonic

by Goldberger, Nancy, Scott, Andrea




Thanks to the river cleanups over the past few decades and some individuals devoted to its rescue, the Housatonic River is moving from a spoiled past into a new future as a source of inspiration...


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The Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

by Owens, Carole




Those hustling to find lodging in the Berkshires today may not know they are repeating a two-hundred-fifty-year-old ritual. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the Berkshires played host to some of the most ...

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The New Red Lion Inn Cookbook

by Chase, Suzi Forbes, Gardner, A. Blake



This cookbook now offers a new pantry section containing chef's tips and recipes for stocks, sauces, dressings and more.

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Berkshire Stories

by Bulkeley, Morgan, Jr.



Morgan Bulkeley first saw the Berkshires on a golden fall day in 1928. A day's outing from school had brought him up Bear Mountain where he ate a sandwich while his eyes feasted on the natural beauty spread around him....

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The Lenox School Of Jazz

by Jeremy Yudkin


Musicologist Jeremy Yudkin does a masterful job of illuminating a little known part of Berkshire County history.

That Lenox School of Jazz, part of the famed Music Inn, broke barriers not only with the quality for its music and jazz curriculum, but also did much to integrate the primarily black players with their white audiences of the 1050's.

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