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OUR SUMMER 2022 SERIES OF TUESDAY TEA & TALKS START JUNE 14 – AUGUST 30

Tickets are $35, $30 for members or with advance reservation. Scheduled talks and speakers listed below.

The summer series of Tea & Talks is sponsored in part by board member Lucille Landa and William Landa. 

June 14A Dirty Year, 1872: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal in Gilded Age New York, Bill Greer

June 21Before HBO’s “Gilded Age,” Jennifer Huberdeau

June 28 – “Elm Court,” the Berkshires Estate of Emily Vanderbilt & William Sloane, Gary Lawrance

July 5Frank Lloyd Wright – The Dramatic Life of America’s Most Controversial and Creative Architect, Rene Silvin

July 12Cecil Beaton: Famed British Photographer, Hugo Vickers

 July 19The Gilded Age Rises Again in Troy, NY – Kathy Sheehan

July 26Forgotten Trailblazing Women of Lenox’s Gilded Age: Jennie Van DerZee Welcome, Painter, Filmmaker, & Entrepreneur, Nannina Gilder

August 2Architects of an American Landscape: The Interwoven Careers of H.H. Richardson and F.L.Olmsted, Hugh Howard

August 9 – Railroads and Railroading in the Berkshires, Pieter Lips

August 16The Gilded Age in Fact and Fiction, Carol Wallace

August 23Hair and Makeup of the Gilded Age, Kate Baisley

August 30 – ‘A part I never rehearsed’: The unscripted role of the First Lady, Amy Russo