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      Naumkeag Museum and Gardens – Stockbridge, Mass

      One of the Berkshires’ original gilded-age “cottages”, Naumkeag is famous for its eight acres of terraced gardens and landscaped grounds surrounded by forty acres of woodland, meadow, and pasture that stretch to the Housatonic River Valley. The gardens and landscaped grounds, first designed in the late 1880s by Nathan Barrett, were transformed and expanded between […]
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      Goose Pond Reservation – Lee, Mass

      Goose Pond Reservation – 112 acres.  A Trustees of Reservations property located on Goose Pond. Boaters can launch from a state boat ramp on Ridge Street.  Paddle across Lower Goose Pond, a mountain lake anchored by steep ridgelines that also support a remote section of the 2,179-mile Appalachian Trail. Goose Pond Reservation is managed as […]
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      Ventfort Hall Mansion & Gilded Age Museum – Lenox, Mass

      Ventfort Hall is an imposing Elizabethan-style mansion built in 1893 for Sarah Morgan, the sister of J. P. Morgan. Designed by the architects Rotch & Tilden, it is located in Lenox, Massachusetts. The town of Lenox was the center of the social season in the Berkshires during the Gilded Age, the period between the Civil […]
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      Beartown State Forest, MA – Monterey, Mass

      Beartown State Forest has two distinctly different worlds between the summer and winter. During the warm months the pristine 35-acre Benedict Pond attracts swimmers, boaters and fishermen. An extensive network of trails on over 12,000 acres offers visitors a chance to glimpse deer, bear, bobcat, fisher and other wildlife, including the park’s namesake, the Black […]
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      Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival – Becket, Mass

      Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, lauded worldwide as a “hub and mecca of dancing” (TIME Magazine) and “one of America’s most precious cultural assets” (Mikhail Baryshnikov), is home to America’s longest running international dance festival. The Pillow is a designated National Historic Landmark. National Historic Landmarks are nationally significant historic places designated by the Secretary of […]
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      Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument – East Canaan, Conn

      The Beckley Blast Furnace was one of three blast furnaces in operation along Lower Road and the Blackberry River in East Canaan during the period 1832-1923. Knowledgeable guides — members of the Friends of Beckley Furnace — are onsite at the Furnace from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. each Saturday in the summer.
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      The Mount – Edith Wharton’s Estate – Lenox, Mass

      The Mount – Edith Wharton’s Estate – Lenox, Mass The Mount was the home of Pulitzer-prize winning author Edith Wharton, who designed the house and gardens with the same intelligence and sensitivity that distinguishes her writing. Edith Wharton created her gardens as architectural compositions, divided into rooms, and planned in concert with the house and […]
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      Sharon Audubon Center & Miles Wildlife Sanctuary – Sharon, Conn

      Audubon Sharon, consisting of the Sharon Audubon Center and Emily Winthrop Miles Wildlife Sanctuary, has been connecting people with nature for over forty years. Creating life-changing experiences that enable community members and their families to appreciate, understand and protect the natural world is at the very core of our mission. Artist Emily Winthrop Miles donated […]
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      Housatonic River Walk National Recreation Trail – Gt. Barrington, MA

      The River Walk is a greenway trail along the Housatonic River in the downtown center of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where 2,200 citizen volunteers are working to reclaim the beauty of a “working river” abused by years of industrial waste and neglect. River Walk roughly follows the west bank of the Housatonic River between Cottage Street […]
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