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After less than six months of ownership, the crowd-sourced Shared Estates Asset Fund is marketing the 13-room inn at a potential $2 million profit.
Applications are being accepted for the garden and flower show sponsored by the Lenox Historical Society and the Academy Garden Club of Lenox. The show will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, on the porch at The Curtis.
Mill Town Capital of Pittsfield purchases the 19th century David Wolf Bishop House on Walker Street in Lenox, which will be the new home of Renaissance Investment Group.
Augustus Martin’s photo “The Farewell” is the kind of old, weird image you can get lost in. It’s a group of friends, including the photographer himself, with his handlebar moustache and debonair gaze, sitting in front of a banjo player handing something to the woman beside him. Unlike many of Martin’s images of everyday life in Lenox Dale, this one has a specific date — March 11, 1901 — right before he briefly moved away from the Berkshires only to return after a few months. The question of just what is going on here hangs in the air.
For Molly Rideout, the 2021 writer-in-residence at The Mount, the image is an opportunity and a challenge. There are things that can be learned about these peoples’ lives and what brought them together, but there remains that shadow of unknowability over every ordinary person’s life in the past. There is an invitation to fill in the story, and to explore why we feel we have to do so.
Lenox — He was born in a house on Hubbard Street when Hubbard Street was still a dirt road. He remembered early years in a large, warm family. Around him, people were always sketching and …
