- Winterlights -Naumkeag 2024!Cancelled
TICKETS ARE ON SALE. We had such a great time last year.
With over 100,000 dazzling lights at this Massachusetts gardens, Winterlights is a holiday light display that can’t be beat. Naumkeag is a public garden and 48-acre, historic, family home in the Berkshires. Called an “architectural masterpiece”, the house has 44-rooms where multiple generations of the Choate family lived from the 1880s until daughter Mabel Choate bequeathed it to trustees in 1958.
Naumkeag’s number one ranking was a part of Fodor’s Travel’s list of the best spots to see holiday lights in all 50 states.
Please acquaint yourself thoroughly with the website as you must purchase a ticket as soon as possible and decide which parking lot you will take a shuttle from. Tickets can be purchased at Winterlights Naumkeag
Please read:Parking for Winterlights - Choose the 4:45 pm ticket. Parking Zone A (your ticket) - will be located in downtown Stockbridge at designated parking spaces on both sides of Town Hall - located at 50 Main Street, Stockbridge MA. If that parking area is full, please feel free to use any parking along Main Street or Elm Street in Stockbridge.
- Bus pick-up and guest check-in for Parking Zone A will be located at the Stockbridge Information Booth between 37 and 39 Main Street, across the street from the Stockbridge Library on Main Street. Please have your tickets ready for check-in, either printed or digital.
- The first shuttle will leave downtown Stockbridge at 4:30PM (for the 4:30 ticket) and run every 5-10 minutes through the run of the show. The last shuttle will depart this parking area to Naumkeag no later than 7:45PM.
- To ensure a positive experience for guests, we ask that you arrive within 15 minutes of your designated time slot. For example, guests with 4:45pm tickets should arrive to the shuttle pick-up location between 4:30 and 5:45. Early/Late arrivals may need to wait to accommodate those with correct timed tickets.
At this point it seems most people are riding out on their own so lets meet at 4:30 at the bus shuttle area in parking zone A and then regroup at the entrance. Please note the driving directions are for parking zone A. If you have a different lot please check your ticket for location.
We will make reservations for dinner afterwards. Likely to be AMICI again since we had so much fun there last year
- A Tale of Two Paintings:The Norman Rockwell Mystery plus visit to covered bridgeNeeds location
Join us for a trip to Arlington and Bennington where we will visit the Arlington Green Covered Bridge, have lunch, and then attend a fascinating presentation about an original Norman Rockwell Painting was discovered in 2006 in a most unusual place.
We will meet at 11:00 at the the Arlington Green Covered bridge to take photographs. Directions:Arlington Covered Bridge
About the :Arlington Green Covered Bridge. It is within walking distance is the former home of famous artist Norman Rockwell. It is now the Inn on Arlington Green.
After that we will go to lunch (TBD)
At 2:00 we will attend the talk at the Bennington Museum, A Tale of Two Paintings: The Norman Rockwell Mystery. After the talk we will visit the exhibit about the story of this painting and also a wonderful Covered Bridge of Vermont exhibit.
I will update this as we get closer to the date.
- Full Moon Wolf WalkNeeds location
I am posting this event here as well as on the new Photography Connection Facebook page. If you would like to attend this event you will need to go to the Photography Connection page and request to join. I will accept your invite. You can go to the events section and sign up there.
Photography Connection FBReminder that this meetup group will no longer be active after January 2025.
- Christman SanctuaryStuyvesant Plaza, Albany, NY
A highlight of the Christman Sanctuary is the Bozenkill, with its 30-foot waterfall and numerous lesser cascades. We will hike less than a 1/2 mile to these falls from the parking lot. I've long wanted to see these falls in winter. You MUST have microspikes and a pole to do this short hike. There is a short but somewhat steep descent to the falls and will be slippery in winter. Dress warm and bring hand warmers. We will meet at Stuyvesant Plaza and park in front of Bountiful Bread. There is very limited parking there and we will need to carpool depending on how many people sign up. I will check if it is even plowed in winter once we get some snow. We will spend a couple of hours there and have lunch at Bountiful Bread when we return.
Meet 9:30 - Stuyvesant Plaza, 1475 Western Ave., Albany NYChristman Sanctuary: [Location of Christman Sanctuary](3281 Schoharie Tpke, Delanson, NY 12053)
PS. I also posted this on the Photography connection FB page. Please sign up here too. Sorry for any confusion.
