What’s Out There Weekend Berkshires – September 21-22 – Now With Special Offers at Area Golf Courses
Media Contact: Nord Wennerstrom | T: 202.255.7076 | E: nord@tclf.org
What’s Out There Weekend – September 21-22 –Two-Days of Free, Expert-led Tours of Significant Landscapes in the Berkshires & Special Offers at Area Golf Courses
Dedicated, Discounted Tee Times at Numerous Area Golf Courses and Hotel Discounts - Free, Expert-led Tours of more than 30 Sites throughout the Berkshires, MA
Washington, DC (July 29, 2013) – On September 21-22, 2013 in Berkshires, MA, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will host What’s Out There Weekend Berkshires, providing residents and visitors an opportunity to discover and explore more than 30 significant, publicly accessible landscapes during free, expert-led tours in Western Massachusetts; and will feature a special program for golfers at six historically-significant courses designed by some of the nation’s best golf course architects including Wayne Stiles, Donald Ross, and A.W. Tillinghast. Many of the courses are private and not normally open to non-members, with discounts and reserved tees times.
What’s Out There Weekends have been held in Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, drawing up to 2,000 participants at each venue. This first non-urban Weekend is also the first to provide discount hotel and golf course packages.
Participating golf courses and packages include:
Berkshire Hills Country Club (Pittsfield)
Special Rate $90 per person, includes cart. Contact the Golf Shop and mention What's Out There Weekend, (413) 442-1451. Please reserve tee times after September 1st - schedule is not available before then.
Tee times available:
Saturday (Sept 21) - 1:28, 1:36, 1:44, and 1:52
Country Club of Pittsfield (Pittsfield)
Special Rate $120/person, includes cart. Contact Bradley Benson and mention What's Out There Weekend, (413) 447-8504
Tee times available (4 people per tee time):
Saturday (Sept 21) - 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30
Sunday (Sept 22) - 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30
Special Note: green aerification will take place on September 17th & 18th, weather permitting
Cranwell (Lenox)
Berkshire Resident Special Rate $56/person, includes cart. Contact David Straun and mention What's Out There Weekend, golf@cranwell.com
Tee times available:
Saturday (Sept 21) - 10:40, 10:50, 11:00, 1:20, 1:30 and 1:40
Sunday (Sept 22) - 10:20, 10:30, 10:40, 1:20, 1:30 and 1:40
Greenock Country Club (Lee)
County Rate. Contact Bob Mucha at the Pro Shop and mention What's Out There Weekend, (413) 243-3323
9 Holes - $18 (w/ Cart - $28)
18 Holes - $30 (w/ Cart - $40)
Stockbridge Golf Club (Stockbridge)
$120/person, groups of four (cart fee $17.50/person)
Tee times available: 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 and 2:00 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (Sept 20-22)
Contact Courtney Spearman by email at courtney@tclf.org to schedule tee times.
Wahconah Country Club (Dalton)
$50/person, includes cart. Contact the pro shop or ask for Jim Underdown and mention What's Out There Weekend, (413) 684-1333.
Tee times available: Sunday afternoon
A companion What’s Out There Weekend Berkshires Web site features downloadable information about all locations, a schedule of free tours, golf packages and hotel discounts. Shakespeare & Company is offering a 10% discount on tickets, the Red Lion Inn is offering a 20% discount on room rates and Cranwell is offering a 20% discount on Classic Resort Doubles or King accommodations; other local lodges and B&Bs are participating with special packages as well. Bartlett Tree Experts and the Berkshire Visitors Bureau are the presenting sponsors of What's Out There Weekend. Adele Gravitz with the Berkshire Synergy Project (BSP), an innovative arts programming venture working to make collaborative connections between arts and non-arts organizations and events in the Berkshires, has been instrumental in helping organize What’s Out There Weekend Berkshires.
The weekend is an extension of the What’s Out There database of America’s designed landscapes. The free, online, searchable, Wiki-format, and vetted database hosts illustrated entries of nearly 1,400 parks, gardens and open spaces throughout the US, supported by more than 9,000 images and 650 designer profiles. What’s Out There is now optimized for smartphones and other handheld devices and features What’s Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all sites in the What’s Out There database within a 25-mile radius of any given location.
What’s Out There Weekend is coming to the Berkshires through the efforts of the Berkshire Synergy Project (BSP), Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area ‐ Housatonic Heritage, Berkshire Visitors Bureau, Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, Jacob’s Pillow, Shakespeare & Company, Boston Symphony Orchestra (Tanglewood), Cranwell Resort, Spa, and Golf Club, and the Red Lion Inn. Through BSP, TCLF has developed an active partnership with Housatonic Heritage’s Heritage Walk program. This partnership pairs a long serving regional organization with a national group focused on cultural landscapes to celebrate the unique landscape heritage of the Berkshires.
What is a cultural landscape?
A cultural landscape is a geographic area that includes cultural and natural resources associated with an historic event, activity, person, or group of people. Cultural landscapes can range from thousands of acres of parkland to small homesteads. There is a broad range of landscape types, including waterfronts, campuses, cemeteries, commemorative landscapes, and scenic highways. They exist in direct relationship to their ecological contexts. They are works of art, narratives of cultures, and expressions of regional identity.
About The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) provides people with the ability to see, understand and value landscape architecture and its practitioners, in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. TCLF makes a special effort to heighten the awareness of those who impact cultural landscapes, assist groups and organizations working to increase the appreciation and recognition of cultural landscapes, and develop educational tools for young people to better connect them to their cultural landscape environs.
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