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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

The high school in this well-off nook of the Berkshires has for a century shunned the Wildcats, Falcons, Bulldogs and other popular mascots in favor of the flashier “Lenox Millionaires.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Don and Maggie Buchwald, his wife of 59 years, were proud supporters and audience members of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in the Berkshires.

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

Massachusetts alone has 250,000 acres of woodland, 100,000 of it in the comely Berkshires.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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