Becket Things to Do

Wharton, who won a Pulitzer for her novel The Age of Innocence, was singularly equipped to write that deftly detailed examination of the upper classes of the Gilded Age and the first decades of the 20th century. She was... more

The repertory company had long used buildings and amphitheaters on the grounds of The Mount to stage its May-to-December season of plays by the Bard, works by Chekhov and George Bernard Shaw, and efforts by new American... more

It began in 1903 as the "Museum of Natural History and Art," words chiseled in stone above the entrance. The holdings bounce from Babylonian cuneiform tablets to tanks of live fish to archaeological artifacts like a deli... more