February is for Valentines & Love

Valentines Day is February 14, but at the Inn at Stockbridge bed&breakfast in the Berkshires we are celebrating love and Valentines all month long. Stay at the inn for 2 or more nights the entire month of February and we will have chocolate covered strawberries waiting in you room for your arrival. For a 3 night stay we will also have waiting for you a split of champagne. You can also take advantage of our stay more save more special the entire month as well as March & April.

Love can also be a bit dangerous. For a merry wicked time visit Shakespeare & Company in Lenox MA and see Les Liasons Dangerous.
Love is the ultimate weapon! This wickedly entertaining story of love, sex and betrayal is as sumptuously guilt-inducing as a decadent chocolate you just can't resist. Depicting the devious schemes of French aristocrats on the cusp of the Revolution, it heats up the intimate Bernstein Theatre at Shakespeare & Company this winter under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer.

Packer directs Elizabeth Aspenlieder, who won the coveted Elliot Norton Award for her tour de force performance in Bad Dates last winter, and Josh Aaron McCabe, most recently seen last fall as Sherlock Holmes (and a host of other characters, both male and female) in the runaway hit The Hound of the Baskervilles. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) was ahead of its time as a novel in 1782 and it still may be ahead of its time today.
This play is running until March 21.

Cultural Berkshires for 2010

The Summer season 2010 in the Berkshires is on the web. Many of the cultural venues have announced their summer season. Tanglewood, Jacob's Pillow, Barrington Stage Company among others are selling tickets to the public. The Inn at Stockbridge Bed & Breakfast is taking summer reservations. If you are planning on visiting the Berkshires this summer please visit our web site and go to the links page. You can then view the schedules of all the venues as they are posted.
Why wait until the summer to visit the Inn. You can enjoy skiing and Valentines Day at the Inn at Stockbridge as well

Berkshires- Perfect Ski Conditions

Alice & Len Schiller owner/innkeepers of the Inn at Stockbridge want you all to know that we have perfect ski conditions in the Berkshires. You may prefer down hill sking at Ski Butternut or perhaps Jiminy Peak>. Perhaps you may prefer Xcountry sking. I personally enjoy Canterbury Farms. They even have a great cozy loungs. Another favorite XCountry ski destination is hilltop orchards.
If you just want to have fun in the snow try our snow shoes. We have several pair available for you to borrow free of charge.
The Berkshires is a true winter wonderland waiting for you to explore. We even have discount passes for you to Butternut.

We are even making it more attractive to visit the Inn this winter with our stay more save more packages. Check it out you will be glad you did.

Celebrating 62 Years of Wedded Bliss

The Inn is a wonderful place for couple and families to celebrate wonderful life cycle events. We feel very fortunate that our guests choose to celebrate with us at The Inn at Stockbridge B&B in the Berkshires. Last week we met Rose Mary & David Cole who celebrated 62 years of marriage. Rose Mary & David are a wonderful couple and an inspiration to all for a life well lived. They were married in Bad Axe Michigan on December 29, 1947. Rose Mary was a teacher for 33 years in Michigan, NY, PA & CT. Her first assignment was in a one room country school where she taught grades K-8. David managed a grocery warehouse. They now live in Chesire Ct near their daughter and family. They came to the inn with their daughter and son in law to celebrate their anniversary. They had a wonderful dinner at Once upon a Table. I often ask guests who are celebrating anniversaries what they think is the secret to a happy marriage. David and Rose Mary said the "secret is to enjoy one another and stick together on important and unimportant things." They truly seem to enjoy one another and it was a pleasure to meet them.
Len & I will be celebrating our 39 anniversary in April and think of Rose Mary & David as an inspiration. You too can celebrate all your special occasions at the Inn.

Berkshires, An excellent place to be this New Year

I would like to wish you our reader and hopefully a new prospective guest or a previous returning guest a happy and healthy New Year. I hope that 2010 brings happiness peace and prosperity to our country and to all of you.
The Inn at Stockbridge is a perfect place to be this holiday season. If you are stressed from your job, kids and life this is the place to get away from it all. We just had a couple stay with us who are both attorneys and have three young children and new puppy. She was thrilled that she slept 12 hour one night and 11 the other. A walk in Kennedy Park and dinner at Chez Nous and Viva, heavenly. The fireplace and whirlpol tub just added to the romance.
If you are in need of some R&R and an escape from your daily routine this is the place to be. Check out our specials for the winter season, you will be glad you did.

Berkshires Top Destination by National Geographic Traveler

We are thrilled and want you to know that the Berkshires scored #7 in top destinations by the National Geographic Traveler Magazine.

Massachusetts: Berkshires
Score: 76

This area in western Massachusetts "seems to have the right balance"of picturesque towns, arts offerings, and well-protected natural beauty. Some complain it is becoming too "gentrified," with "boutiques pushing out the mom-and-pop establishments." Full article

Stay at the Inn at Stockbridge and enjoy all the Berkshires has to offer.

Stockbridge A Norman Rockwell Christmas

Last weekend Stockbridge hosted the 20th Christmas in Stockbridge weekend. ABC News covered this event and called Stockbridge the quintessential New England Town that is the home to the Norman Rockwell Museum. A town that takes one back to better times when life was easier. Plan to visit Stockbridge this holiday season and stay at the Inn at Stockbridge for a holiday the way it should be.
Norman Rockwell's work celebrated the American family and small-town values.
Take a moment to view this video from ABC Good Morning America to view events from this weekend.