Events & Experiences

  • Creating a Nation: All the great individuals, movements and music who imagined and helped create this country. The origins. Would be diverse and 90 to 120 mins in length. Nothing at Tanglewood that night. First Wednesday of July. Kick off. This event would focus on speeches, essays, music, poetry, song that significantly contributed to the creation of this nation over the 250 years. It would be a mosaic of founding contributors and those who worked for a more perfect union over the past 250 years from Thomas Jefferson to MLK to Susan B Anthony to FDR and beyond.

    TIMING: Event starts at 4pm. 90 minutes of gathering, eating, drinking. 5:30pm show starts and over by 7:30pm. After Party in the Courtyard with more bar action and music and possibly some Tent Dancing if we clear some chairs.

  • We will be displaying Red Lion Inn history in tangible forms:

    F&B history: menus over the years/ china plates/ flatware/ candle sticks/ teapots and service

    Famous people who have slept here: photographs of historic and famous contempo names (Thorton Wilder to James Taylor) from original guest registers (some dating back to 1800s.

    Jane Fitzpatrick and her role in Stockbridge (6 shadow box displays of Jane’s clothing in her glory days) some with photos of her in the

    Red Lion advertising over the years

    Rooms of Yesteryear—vs- rooms of today ((maybe) 

    Wallpaper over the years 

  • Declaring independence was the easy part.What seemed almost impossible was standing up to England determined as it was to crush the colonial rebellion.England had a professional army and a mighty navy. In addition, it hired over 30,000 foreign troops and could count on the support of countless American loyalists opposed to rejecting English rule.So how did the American Patriots prevail against all odds?

    This presentation by an American historian will offer fresh insights into how , after a long hard struggle, victory was achieved.

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