These Mysterious Hills 'Macabre Pittsfield' October Walking Tours
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Journalist Joe Durwin offer four walking tours looking into the city's darker past.
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City of the Dead: Pittsfield Cemetery
Oct 10, 17 & 30 at 6pm - $10
"City of the Dead" will explore fascinating and tragic stories from some of the more obscure lives of those buried here. It will also lay bare the darker history of the place itself: the vandalism, assaults, exhumations, reinterments, and tragic deaths that have taken place within the cemetery itself.
Ghosts of the Gilded Age: Downtown Pittsfield
Oct 16 & 24 at 6pm
Explore ghoulish legends of the historic Park Square district and a glimpse into Pittsfield in the Gilded Age. An easy stroll around several iconic houses, venues, and other important buildings of downtown.
Dark Origins- 1800s: Downtown Pittsfield
Oct 24 at 8pm - $10
A walk back in time through the dirt and cobble-stones of early Pittsfield, past its burial grounds and nefarious saloons, its brothels, opium dens, and grisly crime scenes.
Roaring 20s: Downtown Pittsfield
Oct 25 at 6pm - $10
From forgotten LGBT history to bootlegging, jewel heists, serial murder, and the rise of the KKK, this walk chronicles the decade that set the tone for a whole century.
These Mysterious Hills began in 2004 as a regular column in the Advocate Weekly newspaper, and has become an archive of obscure Berkshire county history, with walking tours and other special events offered regularly since 2015.
