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Old Austerlitz in Austerlitz, NY is a living history museum of post-and-beam houses, a granary, a blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse, Christian church and other historic buildings. On Sunday, July 29th, the Austerlitz Historical Society will hold its 13th Annual Blueberry Festival on the grounds of Old Austerlitz Village. Barbara Willner and Cathy Grier tell us more.

We speak with Patricia Phagan, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings about Nature in America: Taming the Landscape.

The Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, NY and the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY are both showing American Impressionist paintings from the Arkell collections this summer. "American Impressionism: Paintings of Light and Life” is the exhibition at The Fenimore. “American Impressionism: Masterworks in Watercolor and Pastel” at the Arkell. We are joined by Diane Forsberg, the Arkell Museum's Chief Curator and Chris Rossi, the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Fenimore.

Leslie Ferrin (director of Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield and Project Art, a live/work and artist in residence program in Cummington, MA), Hope Sullivan (Executive Director of IS183 Art School of the Berkshires), and Jonathan Secor (Director MCLA's Berkshire Cultural Resource Center and Downstreet Art) join us to talk about ArtBerkshires and this Summer's programming.

The exhibition, Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered will be on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA through October 28. Stephanie Plunkett, chief curator at the Norman Rockwell Museum and Dr. Joyce Schiller, curator of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at Norman Rockwell Museum join us to tell us more about Howard Pyle and his work.