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Tomorrow is the first day of October. Before January and February were added to the Roman calendar, October was the eighth month of the year (hence the prefix “octo-”) but it’s now the tenth month. To commemorate the start of a month with a (now) misleading name, our questions this week are about other things with misleading names.

The Berkshire Botanical Garden's Harvest Festival, taking place October 8 and 9, will include continuous family entertainment; a giant tag sale featuring repurposed, gently used household items, clothing and jewelry; and an expanded plant sale and farmers market. Children’s activities include hayrides; pony rides; a haunted house; an obstacle course; interactive music with Robie Bones; giant bubbles; pumpkin painting; pumpkin tossing; a hay maze; a vintage fire truck; face painting and Balloon Ben; Berkshire Waldorf School's puppet wagon; a hay jump; aerialists demonstrations by Berkcirque; cider press and photo op; petting zoo; interactive music; roving entertainers, and, back by popular demand, “The Pocket Lady.”

A new exhibition now open at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is Parallax: Framing the Cosmos.

This week's Book Picks come to us from Jesse Hassinger of Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Mark Leibovich’s new book "Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission" is a timely look at how Trump’s bullying and singular command of his political base created a dangerous cult of submission in the Republican party that allowed “stop the steal,” the Jan. 6 insurrection, and so much more to occur.

The 91st Anniversary Woodstock Library Fair on July 23 is a home-town small-town party in celebration of Woodstock, and in homage to George Bellows’s iconic painting, “The Picnic.”The fair takes place Saturday, July 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the library lawn, featuring music and dancing, a book sale, rummage sale, food trucks with delicious and varied treats for the family, the raffle, childrens' area with bouncy house, children’s parade and maypole, and much more.We welcome The Friends of the Woodstock Library President, Michael Hunt.

The full New York City Ballet company is at SPAC in Saratoga Springs, New York this week with six performances featuring the timeless works of Balanchine and Robbins, as well as the return of Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace and SPAC debuts by Jamar Roberts and Pam Tanowitz.The week kicked off with NYCB On and Off Stage and closes with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”To tell us more we are joined by dancer Indiana Woodward.

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died. He was 89. McCullough died Sunday at his Massachusetts home. He had been in failing health and died less than two months after his beloved wife, Rosalee.McCullough dedicated himself to sharing his own passion for history with the general public. He saw himself as an everyman, blessed with lifelong curiosity, and the chance to take on the subjects he cared about most. His fascination with architecture and construction inspired his early works on the Panama Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge. While his admiration for leaders whom he believed were good men, drew him to John Adams and Harry Truman in the 70s and 80s. He indulged his affection for Paris with the 2011 release of "The Greater Journey" and for aviation with the bestseller on The Wright brothers that came out in 2015. David McCullough was a frequent guest on this program, as well as The Book Show. I spoke with him in 2017 about a project he worked on examining the American spirit through speeches he'd written and delivered throughout his illustrious career.