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Berkshires

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  1. Mountain chain in western Massachusetts.


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In Great Barrington, browse home goods at One Mercantile and Barrington Outfitters before dinner at Prairie Whale or the Old Inn on the Green, a candlelit Berkshires institution inside an 18th-century inn.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

One of the families mentioned, the Burdicks, was discovered to have moved to Beachville from Lanesborough, Mass., in the Berkshires.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 24, 2025

Don Buchwald, who founded bicoastal talent agency Buchwald and notably represented Howard Stern in industry-altering negotiations with Sirius XM, died July 22 in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, an agency publicist confirmed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2024

And with his new title at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony’s summer season in the Berkshires, he will take on a more educational role.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2024

To that end, I had my obliging wife drive me to southwestern Massachusetts and drop me on the trail near Stockbridge for a three-day amble through the Berkshires.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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