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July 1, 2004
• Vintage baseball highlights Independence Day weekend City Scene Vintage baseball highlights Independence Day weekend A weekly compendium of things to do in Pittsfield on the weekend. This weekend, you can celebrate your freedom by going out and about or staying home and doing nothing at all! Thursday morning at 11 (and Friday and Saturday at the same time) all ages are invited to the Berkshire Museum to see "Robin Hood," presented by the Berkshire Theatre Festival and directed by Gray Simons. They say this new production will lead young audiences into Sherwood Forest to reveal a whole new account on the beloved tale of Robin, Maid Marian and friends. Tickets are $5 member, $8 non-member for adults, and $3 member, $5 non-member for children ages 3-18. And while you're there, don’t miss the bright orange "Sheepsicle" on the Museum’s front lawn. The museum is located at 39 South St. For information, call 443-7171. In the evening, venture down to La Cocina at 140 Wahconah St., if you're up for it, for the local band Hypnology. I first saw them play on North Street this spring, and they were entertaining and energetic in the style of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. If you want to get your ya-yas out with their help, the cover is a very reasonable $3. For more information, call 499-6363. Friday morning, the Berkshire Museum's eagerly awaited new show opens. Entitled "The Presence of Light," it features over a dozen artists’ creative installations exploring the qualities of light. You can see one of the installations on the front lawn of the museum, and much more inside. The museum is open 10 to 5, Monday through Saturday; and noon to 5, Sunday, including the Fourth of July. On Saturday, July 3, the place to be is Wahconah Park, where a vintage-style baseball game, complete with live entertainment and the newly-formed Pittsfield Hillies Vintage Baseball Club, comprised of former college and professional ballplayers, will play the Hartford Senators Vintage Baseball Club at 7. The game will be televised live on the ESPN Classic cable station, and there will be costumed ball boys, vendors and more to add to the fun. This is the first time the Pittsfield Hillies and Hartford Senators have played each other since, oh, about 1930. Tickets are $3-$10, and 48 restaurants will be participating in a "Best of the Berkshires" food court for your dining pleasure. And there will be post-game fireworks as well! Also on Saturday evening there's a one-night-only performance by actor and storyteller E.Z. Pine of Wallace Shawn’s one-act dramatic monologue "The Fever." Doors open at 7, and the performance is at 7:30, at the Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the First United Methodist Church at 55 Fenn St. A brief discussion of the play, which won an Obie Award in 1991 for best new American play, follows the performance. It’s sponsored by Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice, and a donation of $1-$20 is suggested. For more information, call 232-7875. Wallace Shawn is one of the best American contemporary playwrights around, and his "fine sense of lyrically precise prose" has been praised by The New York Times Book Review and many others. On Sunday, Independence Day, take in the many aesthetic highlights of the world of automobiles at the annual Berkshire Vintage Auto Show, a benefit for children's programs through the United Way. You can enter your car for $10, or attend for only $4. Nothing newer than 1972 will be on display, so if you enjoy vintage muscle cars, street rods, motorcycles, and antique cars, among many other categories, come on down! There will be a DJ spinning oldies to add to the ambience, and if it rains, they’ll do it July11. The vintage auto show is at the Hillcrest campus, located at 165 Tor Ct., and runs from 9 to 4. For more information, call 499-8600 or www.berkshireautoshow.com. Though we don't usually cover Monday events in this column, this weekend is special. If you love parades, Americana, community spirit and hullabaloo, you ought to come on down to downtown Pittsfield to see the umpteenth annual Fourth of July parade (scheduled this year for the fifth of July, don’t forget!) There will 180 units in the parade -- holy moley! -- including 24 marching bands from all over the East Coast, 10 giant balloons, bagpipes, and lots of floats by local organizations. It’s one of the biggest Fourth of July parades in the northeast. The parade starts at the corner of South and Housatonic Streets and wends its way around Park Square and all the way down to Wahconah Park. It steps off at 10, so get there early for a good seat! For more information, call the all-volunteer hard-working Pittsfield Parade Committee at 447-7763. Send your tips, suggestions and press releases to cityscene@earthlink.net. |
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