Cultural Activities and Entertainment: Cultural: Music and Dance: Tanglewood Music Festival, summer home of the Boston Symphony 3 miles away. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, 8 miles. Chamber music at Tannery pond, 20 minutes, at Norfolk and Falls Village - 40 minutes. Asta magna in Gt. Barrington.
Art: Galleries everywhere. Museums in Williamstown - the Clark and the Williams College Museum. Mass Moca for contemporary art in North Adams. Pittsfield Museum - good for Kids. Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge - good for kids.
Historic Museums and Houses: The Mount, home of Edith Wharton, Ventford Hall, a gilded Age Museum, Naumkeag, noted for its garden, Hancock Shaker village- good for kids. The Mission House in Stockbridge.
Movies and popular entertainment: the Triplex Movie theater in Gt. Barrington. Mahaiwe Theater in Gt. Barrington and Colonial in Pittsfield.
Libraries: in all towns. offer WiFi and lending books, tapes, CDs
Sports: Golf and Tennis, Walking, Bicycliing: Golf Courses: Stockbridge, Lee, Lenox (Cranwell), South Egremont and Pittsfield.
Tennis: Public courts in center of Stockbridge Village and at High School
Walking: Beartown Mountain State forest (3 miles away) has hundreds of trails. There are also trails within walking distance of the apartment.
Bicycling: man untraveled roads to bike on
Winter Activities and Restaurants: Sports: Downhill skiing, Butternut 10 minutes away. Jimminy Peak, 35 minutes. Catamount, 20 minutes
Cross Country skiing on the golf courses or on trails in Beartown.
Movies and concerts. Shakespeare and Co. plays. Lectures at Libraries.
Restaurants: too many good ones to name.
