Literary Legacy: A Guided Tour of the William Cullen Bryant Homestead
Reopening Summer 2025 for the first time since 2019!! Step into the world of 19th-century poet, journalist, and conservationist William Cullen Bryant at his beloved family homestead in Cummington, Massachusetts. This guided tour offers a look inside Bryant’s thoughtfully preserved country estate, where he spent his… Read More
Literary Legacy: A Guided Tour of the William Cullen Bryant Homestead
Reopening Summer 2025 for the first time since 2019!! Step into the world of 19th-century poet, journalist, and conservationist William Cullen Bryant at his beloved family homestead in Cummington, Massachusetts. This guided tour offers a look inside Bryant’s thoughtfully preserved country estate, where he spent his… Read More
Drop-in Bookmaking Workshop
Can you make a book from one sheet of paper? Come find out in this afternoon drop-in workshop. Join artist Brece Honeycutt to learn how to make a simple book from one sheet of paper. Brece is behind the current art installation, anything but drab, exploring Shaker use of color. Read More
Prismatic Utopia: A Threefold Exploration of Shaker Color
Historically, the Shakers lived in a prismatic world, painting their objects and buildings with “adorning and beauteous colors,” as noted by Elder Calvin Green. Artist Brece Honeycutt will discuss the practical, temporal and the spiritual uses of color, including two ‘new pigments’ Prussian Blue and Chrome Yellow. Brece Honeycutt has… Read More
Pastel Artist Demonstration – Seascapes
Join the Central Massachusetts Pastel Society for an Artist Demonstration at our Wayside Galley in conjunction with their Color and Light exhibit. Feel free to drop by any time during the demonstration, find inspiration, and enjoy watching an expert at work. Please check out the dates and demonstration topics… Read More
Pastel Artist Demonstration – Wave
Join the Central Massachusetts Pastel Society for an Artist Demonstration at our Wayside Galley in conjunction with their Color and Light exhibit. Feel free to drop by any time during the demonstration, find inspiration, and enjoy watching an expert at work. Please check out the dates and demonstration topics… Read More
Literary Legacy: A Guided Tour of the William Cullen Bryant Homestead
Reopening Summer 2025 for the first time since 2019!! Step into the world of 19th-century poet, journalist, and conservationist William Cullen Bryant at his beloved family homestead in Cummington, Massachusetts. This guided tour offers a look inside Bryant’s thoughtfully preserved country estate, where he spent his… Read More
Pastel Artist Demonstration – Landscapes
Join the Central Massachusetts Pastel Society for an Artist Demonstration at our Wayside Galley in conjunction with their Color and Light exhibit. Feel free to drop by any time during the demonstration, find inspiration, and enjoy watching an expert at work. Please check out the dates and demonstration topics… Read More
Pastel Artist Demonstration – Grasses
Join the Central Massachusetts Pastel Society for an Artist Demonstration at our Wayside Galley in conjunction with their Color and Light exhibit. Feel free to drop by any time during the demonstration, find inspiration, and enjoy watching an expert at work. Please check out the dates and demonstration topics… Read More
Literary Legacy: A Guided Tour of the William Cullen Bryant Homestead
Reopening Summer 2025 for the first time since 2019!! Step into the world of 19th-century poet, journalist, and conservationist William Cullen Bryant at his beloved family homestead in Cummington, Massachusetts. This guided tour offers a look inside Bryant’s thoughtfully preserved country estate, where he spent his… Read More
An Afternoon of Poetry
Join the New England Poetry Club under the open-air tent at the Old Manse for an afternoon of poetry sharing their work in a setting steeped in literary history. Founded in 1915, the New England Poetry Club has long championed poets with ties to… Read More
Pastel Artist Demonstration – Nocturne
Join the Central Massachusetts Pastel Society for an Artist Demonstration at our Wayside Galley in conjunction with their Color and Light exhibit. Feel free to drop by any time during the demonstration, find inspiration, and enjoy watching an expert at work. Please check out the dates and demonstration topics… Read More