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The Mohawk Trail Association

Name: The Mohawk Trail Association
Address: North Adams, MA, 01247, US
Telephone: +14137438127
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Blaze the Highway of History and discover the wonderful world of adventure waiting you as the seasons come alive on the Mohawk Trail.

Route 2 (Williamstown to Shirley). Explore those out-of-the way, unspoiled small towns and meet some of the most charming people you are likely to run into anywhere. More then a Trail……A Journey! Well over 100 attractions – country inns, gifts shops, artist galleries, and public and private camping, golf, biking, hiking, and fishing, white water rafting and skiing –are nestled amid the seasonal ch

anging beauty of the Berkshire Hills and Connecticut Valley. Visit The Clark, Williams College Museum of Art, Centre ’62, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mass MoCA, Hoosac Tunnel, News England’s only natural Bridge, Bridge of Flowers, Glacial Potholes, Historic Deerfield and Yankee Candle. View the valley from Mount Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts. Along with summer and fall craft and street fairs, find a small farm or orchards to pick or own apples, pumpkins, after the leaves drop, winter snow invites skiers to enjoy the Trail. Fun for all
www.MohawkTrail.com or 866.743.8127 for your free guide book.

01/09/2025

Mass MoCA (1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams, MA) Barbara Prey Building 6 Portriat: Interior Best known for her plein air paintings, Prey’s commission sets a new benchmark for the size and scale of watercolor works on paper, among the most unforgiving combination of any painterly media. Her piece tackles the vast horizontal spread of the Wilson Building’s second floor, which comprises a full acre of floor area, with some 400 columns, hundreds of windows, and layers and layers of paint. “This commission is a painter’s dream, an engaging subject combined with a breathtaking scale for this media,” says Prey. “I have long admired MASS MoCA’s commitment to breaking boundaries in commissioning and presenting new works, and am thrilled to have been asked to create a piece that celebrates the organization’s ongoing growth and success. The architecture, the light, the colors, and the different textures of the space in the building are all compelling subjects, and this piece has pushed my boundaries as an artist, opening up new perspectives on watercolor painting.”
Prey’s paintings are included in some of the most important public and private collections around the world, including The White House (one of two living female artists), the National Endowment for the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Kennedy Space Center, the Farnsworth Art Museum, Williams College Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art Dartmouth College, the Taiwan Museum of Art, the New-York Historical Society, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Bush Presidential Library and Center.
She has also been commissioned by NASA to document space history. Prey graduated from Williams College where she studied with Lane Faison as part of the Williams College Art History program and holds a master’s degree from Harvard University where she was able to continue her art history studies. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a Henry Luce Foundation grant that enabled her to travel, study, and exhibit extensively in Europe and Asia. She is an art blogger for The Huffington Post, a frequent lecturer, and an arts advocate, as well as an adjunct faculty member at Williams College. In 2008, she was appointed by the President of the United States to the National Council on the Arts, which is the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Arts. Members are chosen for their established record of distinguished service and achievement in the arts.
http://www.massmoca.org

01/09/2025

Cheshire Rod and Gun Club - Fishing and Hunting Swap Meet (310 Curran Road, Cheshire MA)
Buy, Sell or Trade New and Used Fishing and Hunter Gear
Don’t miss your opportunity to save some money by buying used fishing and hunting gear!
No Guns or Ammunition
Saturday, January 25th, 2025 from 8:00am – 1:00 pm
$5 admission, Kids 12 & under free
Free Parking
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063664924477

01/09/2025

Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions at Historic Deerfield (80 Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342) currently on view until February 23, 2025 from 9;30am to 4:30pm in The Flynt Center of Early New England Life
Historic Deerfield possesses one of the premier public collections of decorative arts and architecture in America, with a particular focus on the material culture of the Connecticut River Valley. The museum utilizes its collections not only to tell the stories of daily life in Deerfield and the Valley from the early pre-settlement days of the 17th century to the Arts and Crafts period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but also to foster experiences that create an understanding of New England’s rich material legacy and natural landscape. Featuring special acquisition highlights from the past five years in the areas of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, paintings, prints, textiles, and rare books, the exhibit includes four sections that explain why and how the museum’s staff added these items to the collection. Through selective purchases and the generosity of donors, Historic Deerfield’s collection continues to grow and become more comprehensive and inclusive in the types of stories it can tell.
Http://www.historic-deerfield.org

01/09/2025

Forgotten Immigrants: The Bohemians of Turners Falls Valley @ Great Falls Discovery Center (2 Avenue A Turners Falls, MA 01376) on Saturday January 25th from 2:00-3:00 p.m.in the Great Hall
Beginning in the 1870s, drawn by the promise of work at the John Russell Cutlery factory, almost 300 Bohemian immigrants left farms in central Europe to start life anew in the industrial village of Turners Falls. This illustrated talk by local historian Jim Bridge- man, based on over 35 years of research and his new book, Forgot- ten Immigrants, explores the lives of these intrepid pioneers. Find out what motivated Bohemians to leave their ancestral homes, and what they found once they arrived in Western Massachusetts.
Sponsored by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association. For youth and adults.
http://www.greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org
https://www.facebook.com/greatfallsdiscoverycenter

01/09/2025

Martin Puryear: Big Bling
Martin Puryear’s monumental sculpture Big Bling has landed for at least the next five years at MASS MoCA. Sited at the museum’s extreme southern perimeter in the heart of the downtown North Adams, Massachusetts business district, the sculpture creates a dramatic new connection between MASS MoCA’s 16-acre, 28-building factory campus and the city’s Main Street business district.
The spectacular forty-foot-tall work — the largest temporary installation Puryear has created — is built of wood, Puryear’s signature material, and chain-link fence. Through abstract means, the artist has crafted an ongoing dialogue with history, art history, identity, and politics. Here, “bling,” a slang term for flashy jewelry and accessories, is rooted in the urban youth, hip-hop, and rap culture of the 1990s. Originally commissioned for New York City’s Madison Square Park, the title of the artwork and its initial placement in the heart of Manhattan demonstrate Puryear’s recognition that Big Bling was a reflection of the character and the inhabitants of dense urban environments. Restored and transposed to MASS MoCA’s campus, the significant scale of the piece in relation the lower-scale and density of a New England factory town changes viewers’ perspective while amplifying the work’s monumental impact.
In the studio, Puryear’s sculpture applies methods gleaned from traditional crafts, carpentry, boat building, and other trades with spare, exacting stylistic dignity and formal clarity. Unlike his sculptures made from bronze, iron, stone, or carefully assembled from solid wood, Big Bling is constructed industrially from curved laminated wooden beams and exterior grade plywood, materials suitable for outdoor building. Instead of the wire mesh and tar that he has sometimes used for the surface of his sculptures, here Puryear has chosen a quintessentially urban material, stout chain-link fencing, to wrap the plywood construction. Metal fences function as makeshift boundaries around empty lots, construction sites, and playgrounds, concurrently protecting property and excluding people. Puryear has posed a similar dilemma in Big Bling: the multi-tiered work suggests an edifice that might be ascended level by level, but whose entry is blocked by a barrier fence.
A sleek golden shackle is stationed near the pinnacle of the colossal sculpture. It is anchored near the top of the structure — a shimmering beacon, a harness that both adorns and restrains the sculptural form. Big Bling is part animal form, part abstract sculpture, and part intellectual meditation.
About the Artist
Puryear earned his BA from Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. in 1963 and his MFA from Yale University in 1971. After serving in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone (1964–1966), he attended the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1966–1968). The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a retrospective of his work in 2007. Puryear has received, among others, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture (1980), a Louis Comfort Tiffany and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1989). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1992) and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Yale University (1994). Puryear represented the United States in the 2019 Venice Biennale. The artist lives and works in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
http://www.massmoca.org

01/09/2025

Exhibition Tour: Wall Power! @ The Clark (225 South Street, Williamstown, MA)
Sunday from 11:15 AM–12:15 PM on the following dates:
January 12th, 19th & 26th
February 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd
Join a Clark educator for a guided tour of the exhibition Wall Power! Modern French Tapestry from the Mobilier national, Paris. Discover how the art of tapestry has evolved in France from the 1940s to today through the experimentation and collaboration of contemporary artists. Learn how artists, dyers, and weavers worked together to create these monumental wall hangings.
Free.
Capacity is limited.
Pick up a ticket at the Clark Center admissions desk, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Meet in the Clark Center lower level.
Image: Guy de Chaunac-Lanzac, known as Dom Robert, Mille fleurs sauvages (A thousand wild flowers) (detail), designed and woven 1962, wool. Mobilier national, Paris, France, FADT-21010-000. Photo: Isabelle Bideau
www.clarkart.edu

01/09/2025

Permanent Collection Gallery Tour @ The Clark (225 South Street, Williamstown, MA) from
11:15am – 12:15 pm on the following dates
Saturday, January 11th, 18th & 25th
Saturday, February 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd
Join a Clark educator for an informative tour of the permanent collection galleries and learn more about the Institute's unique history and growth.
Free with gallery admission. Capacity is limited. Pick up a ticket at the Clark Center admissions desk, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Meet in the Museum Pavilion.
www.clarkart.edu

01/09/2025

Currently on view David-Jeremiah -I Drive Thee @ The Clark (225 South Street, Williamstown, MA) until January 26th, 2025
The Clark presents the fifth installment of its public spaces series with the artist David-Jeremiah (b. 1985, Oak Cliff, Texas; lives and works in Dallas), in his first institutional solo show outside Texas. This exhibition represents an overview of and conclusion to the artist’s cycle of large reliefs, rendered in enamel and rope on wood panel, and titled, collectively, I Drive Thee.
David-Jeremiah’s muse has long been the Lamborghini, a fascination that is as much about the Italian sports car’s morphology, and muscular design, as its mythology, which is steeped in the tradition of Spanish bullfighting. In his semi-abstract works, the artist reads the ritualized violence of the bullfight as a lens on Black American masculinity, drawing out themes of nobility, cowardice, and glory through a singular language of forms. For the Clark, the artist presents a site-specific, multi-media installation that stages the ceremonial cremation of the final work in the series. This exhibition is accompanied by a small illustrated publication featuring the artist’s writing, with its distinctive blend of unflinching incisiveness and mordant humor.
This year-long installation, is organized by the Clark Art Institute and curated by Robert Wiesenberger, curator of contemporary projects.
www.clarkart.edu

01/08/2025

Back on view at the Flynt Center of Early New England Life at Historic Deerfield (80 Old main Street, Deerfield, MA) on view until May 3rd, 2027 Vermont Furniture from the Alley Collection features an impressive array of 18th and 19th-century Vermont furniture recently donated to Historic Deerfield by collectors William and Patricia Passmore Alley. The exhibition highlights both published and unpublished material from the Alleys’ collection, showing how these objects reveal varied techniques and ornament as well as the characteristics of the environment in which they were made. Many examples in the exhibit retain their vibrant, original surfaces and are organized according to their decoration: solid and highly figured native wood, painted wood, ornamental painting on metal and glass, and veneer and inlay. Though quite different in appearance, these decorative schemes reveal the Alleys’—and 18th- and 19th-century Vermonters’—fondness for furniture with bold, contrasting surfaces.
Bill and Trish Alley, both adoptive residents of Vermont, grew up in families that fostered a life-long love of wood, handcraftsmanship, and history. Raised in New Jersey, Bill learned woodworking at an early age and began to collect Vermont antiques and architectural fragments after moving to the Green Mountain State in the early 1970s. Trish, the granddaughter of a Philadelphia forester and mahogany broker, shared Bill’s love for antiques, particularly ones with interesting stories. Her grandmother, Mabel Wilson, also had an appreciation for old furniture, and following Trish’s marriage to Bill in 1988, the two opened Mabel Wilson Fine Antiques in Stowe, Vermont.
Over time, the couple amassed a significant collection of Vermont furniture that expanded the corpus of documented Vermont furniture through its inclusion in several landmark publications, including The Best the Country Affords: Vermont Furniture, 1765-1850 (1995) and Rich and Tasty: Vermont Furniture to 1850 (2015).
Http://www.historic-deerfield.org

01/08/2025

In Pursuit of the Picturesque: The Art of James Wells Champney currently on view @ Historic Deerfield (80 Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342) until February 23rd, 2025
Through an array of paintings, pastels, photographs, and material culture, In Pursuit of the Picturesque takes a fresh perspective on the New England artist, James Wells Champney (1843-1903) and how he played a pivotal role in shaping late 19th-century perceptions of nostalgia and beauty. This exhibition explores how Champney drew upon different topics within American art, including sentimental genre scenes, paintings of Colonial Revival motifs, and pastels of idealized female models. While the artist was involved in several New York artistic communities, he also resided in Deerfield and continually returned to this New England setting for its bucolic scenes and landscapes. As he depicted the town and its colonial character, Champney would eventually become known as Deerfield’s resident 19th-century artist.
This exhibition reexamines Champney and his work, particularly his involvement with the picturesque. In the late 19th century, audiences gravitated toward images of old New England, ones that emphasized an ideal past and rural settings as an escape from the harsh realities of modern life. With subjects evoking the simplicity of a bygone era, Champney helped promote the Colonial Revival movement and a fascination with 18th-century material culture. Importantly, Elizabeth Williams Champney is also incorporated into the narrative, a prolific young adult author whose collaborations with her husband have often been overlooked. The exhibition brings together a select group of Champney’s artwork and associated materials from the collections of Historic Deerfield, surrounding institutions, and private collections. This rich assemblage provides a unique opportunity to explore the undercurrents that drove Champney’s artwork and delve into the aesthetic and cultural reasons behind his picturesque themes.
Image: James Wells Champney, Young Woman in Red, ca. 1890, pastel (63.366)
Http://www.historic-deerfield.org

01/08/2025

Nature Scavenger Hunt @ Mount Greylock (30 Rockwell Road, Lanesborough, MA 01237) on the following dates:
Sunday, January 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
Sunday, February 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd
Sunday, March 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
For children and families. Self-guided adventurous quests invite you to search for natural treasures along park trails and inside the Visitor Center. We have several “seek and find” scavenger hunts for different age and skill levels. Scavenger hunts are available at the Visitor Center.
This FREE adventure program is a self-guided activity suitable for all ages.
Scavenger hunt hand-outs are available at the lobby desk.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
For more information call the Visitor Center at (413) 499-4262.
https://www.facebook.com/DCRMountGreylock/events
https://www.facebook.com/DCRMountGreylock/events

01/08/2025

Indoor Storywalk® - Under The Snow Valley @ Great Falls Discovery Center (2 Avenue A Turners Falls, MA 01376) happening January 3rd – 26th
Explore the lives of active and resting winter wildlife, in the book, Under the Snow, by Melissa Stewart. For ages 3 and up, accompanied by an adult. Meet at the welcome desk. At the end of the Story- Walk® enjoy reading more books about snow and winter from our collection.
The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Story Walk® is a registered ser- vice mark owned by Ms. Ferguson. This StoryWalk® is provided by Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Interpretive Services.
http://www.greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org
https://www.facebook.com/greatfallsdiscoverycenter

01/08/2025

Women of the French Tapestry Revival: Artists, Dealers, Weavers at The Clark (225 South Street, Williamstown, MA) on Saturday, February 8, 2025 from 2:00–3:00 PM in the Auditorium
French tapestry weaving was traditionally an elite luxury craft practiced by men, who passed prestigious weaving positions down from father to son for generations. But as modernists began to revive French tapestry weaving in the twentieth century, women took on increasingly prominent roles in the field as artists, dealers, and weavers. This talk by Kay Wells explores how women worked in these and other roles to produce modern French tapestries, how they carved out new careers in this dramatically changing field, and how they transformed the look and feel of modern art.
Kay Wells serves as Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of American Art and Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is the author of Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York (Yale University Press, 2019).
Free. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524.
www.clarkart.edu

01/08/2025

Adams Free Library Storytime
Adams Free Library Storytime (92 Park Street, Adams, MA) on Fridays from 10AM to 11AM
January 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st
February 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th
March 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
Held in the Lower Annex Meeting Room
Talk, sing, read, write, and play with us! Preschoolers and their caregivers are invited to join us for fun songs, rhymes, stories, fingerplays, and crafts all designed to build early literacy skills.
This is a free program hosted by the Adams Free Library
www.adamslibraryma.org

01/07/2025

Hands-On Open Hearth Cooking Workshop: Baking in the Beehive Oven on
February 8, 2025 from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. @ Historic Deerfield (80 Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342 at Hall Tavern
Come learn how to fire the oven. We will bake bread and pie in the beehive oven.
Join us this winter to prepare and eat savory and sweet dishes of the past under the guidance of our experienced open hearth cooks. Workshops are held in the kitchen of the Visitor Center at Hall Tavern that dates to 1786. Historic Deerfield’s open hearth cooks will teach you a variety of cookery techniques and lead discussions on how food preparation has changed over time, preservation technology, seasonality, diet, and the availability of local and imported foodstuffs. A bibliography on open hearth cookery will be distributed.
You will participate in the process and assist open hearth cooks in the preparation of period recipes. Please dress comfortably, bring an apron, pen, and paper for notes. After the food is prepared, you will sit down together to enjoy the fruits of your labor. For program information, please contact the Program Manager at [email protected] or (413) 775-7217.
The registration fee for each class is $75.00 per person ($70.00 for members). Participants will receive a confirmation letter by email.
https://www.historic-deerfield.org/events/open-hearth-cooking-workshops-baking-in-the-beehive-oven/
Http://www.historic-deerfield.org

01/07/2025

Cabin Fever Story Time @ Mount Greylock (30 Rockwell Road, Lanesborough, MA 01237) on the following dates:
Sunday, January 12th
Sunday, February 9th
Sunday, March 9th
1:00—2:30 p.m.
For all ages. Join Park Interpreter Mike by a warm fire for entertaining tall tales and remarkable legends from Mount Greylock’s past. Stop by, sit awhile, and enjoy some good old- time local lore! Hot cocoa provided.
https://www.facebook.com/DCRMountGreylock/events

01/07/2025

Introvert/Extrovert: A Two-Piano Recital@ The Clark (225 South Street, Williamstown, MA) on Saturday, February 8th, 2025 from 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Composer-pianist Matthew Aucoin and pianist Conor Hanick team up for an inventive and dazzling two-piano recital, featuring a new work composed by Aucoin for Hanick. In addition to Aucoin's new piece, which is inspired by the luminous recent poetry of Ben Lerner, Hanick and Aucoin play a program divided into "introverted" and "extroverted" halves: in the former category, a mysterious and meditative work by Morton Feldman, and in the latter category, a selection of jubilant and thrilling music for one and two pianos by Gabriella Smith, Julius Eastman, and John Adams, including Adams's ebullient Hallelujah Junction.
Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under).
https://online.clarkart.edu/ActivityBooking.aspx
www.clarkart.edu

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Tuesday	8am - 5pm
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http://www.mohawktrail.com/

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