Chamber of Commerce
Are you looking for sourdough or freshly made dumplings, acrobats at the farmers market and live music downtown, a quiet walk along the river, a cultural center dedicated to W.E.B. DuBois … or a good place to get a local beer?
The Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce covers a lot of ground. It is based in Great Barrington, known in the Berkshires for its concentration of shops and restaurants, and it has expanded to serve the towns around it — Monterey, Sheffield and Egremont, Becket and southern Connecticut. It also runs the visitors booth on Main Street in Great Barrington.
The Southern Berkshires holds old milltowns in the valleys and farming towns high in the hills. The land is influenced by the Mohicans who lived here for hundreds of years and return often today, and by DuBois and many generations before and after him, and by mill workers and farmers and Gilded Age summer people, and it has grown a long tradition of political and social activism, stubborn independence and the arts.
Today many of the towns and villages grow in the summer and fall, as people visit, and a growing local community walk in the hills year-round and come down to warm up over coffee before a concert or a talk or a performance by an international dance company.
Pilobolus performs at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington in February 2019, including a work developed at Jacob's Pillow International Dance Festival in Becket.
A tulip opens in red and gold at the Great Barrington Farmers Market.
Visitors choose a bouquet of locally grown flowers at the Great Barrington Farmers Market.
Steam Noodle Cafe in Great Barrington offers soups, steamed buns and other Asian comfort foods.
Folk singer / songwriter Richard Shindell has joined a long lineup of folk legends in the Troubador series at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.
Sun touches the summit of Monument Mountain in Great Barrington.
