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John Winthrop Founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630 Grape Varietal: Pinot Noir Clones: 115 and 777 Appellation: Sonoma Coast Alc: 14.2% made with grapes grown at terra de promissio landofpromisewine.com GALA PROGRAM SCHEDULE SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019 5:00 PM SECOND FLOOR GALLERIES Wine & Hors d’oeuvres Reception Silent Auction 6:30 PM THEATER Program & Live Auction 8:00 PM ELLEN CRANE MEMORIAL ROOM Celebratory Wine Dinner Catered by Kate Baldwin Food Event Details • 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Board of Trustees, Berkshire Museum •••••••••••• 2 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Welcome from Executive Director & President •••• 3 Elizabeth McGraw President Letter from Gala Co-Chairs •••••••••••••••••• 4 Stacey Gillis Weber Vice President Gala Committee and Benefactors ••••••••••• 5 Ethan Klepetar Vice President Guest of Honor ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 6 Stephen Bayne Treasurer Berkshire Luminaries ••••••••••••••••••••• 7 Lydia S. Rosner Secretary Bidding Procedures •••••••••••••••••••• 8 Mike Addy Douglas Crane Conditions of Sale ••••••••••••••••••••• 9 Catharine Deely David Glodt Live Auction Lots ••••••••••••••••••••• 11 Wendy Gordon Bill Hines, Jr. Paddle Raise ••••••••••••••••••••••• 26 Donna Krenicki Rachel Melendez Mabee Berkshire Museum Education Programs ••• 27 Suzanne Nash Jeffrey Noble Acknowledgments ••••••••••••••••• 28 Caitlin Pemble Melissa Scarafoni Josh Simpson Jeffrey Thomas Michael Wynn Honorary Life Trustees Michael Christopher C. Jeffrey Cook Elizabeth Selkowitz 2 • Thank you for your support! WELCOME Welcome to the 2019 Berkshire Museum Women and Our direction was developed through community Wine Gala! We are grateful for your support and thrilled conversations and strategic planning over the past few to share this special evening with you. years and now, with the museum’s core fiscal health assured, we will build on this work to increase the Today, the Berkshire Museum is more important Museum’s positive impact in this community and across than ever to our community, building on a legacy the region. We need your help to reach these important to provide a “window on the world” to every visitor, goals, and won’t reach them without you. Your support young and old alike. The challenge we enthusiastically today and throughout the year makes our work accept is to share and increase understanding of an possible. incredible collection of objects that connects people to the wonders of nature, the histories of diverse cultures, So thank you for your active and generous support, and the creative ingenuity and artistic expression that and please join us in thanking our Wine Gala co- define what it means to be human. chairs: Courtney Addy, Wendy Gordon, Rachel Melendez Mabee, and Jacqueline Togut, and our Wine Chair Jim We are working with students and teachers, kids and Nejaime, who along with the full committee crafted this parents, and cultural, educational, and economic incredible night. And thanks to our evening sponsors, development partners in the community to develop Northern Trust and PEAK Event Services, and all of the resources and programs that make real differences incredible businesses and supporters who donated to in people’s lives, sparking curiosity, challenging the live and silent auctions. preconceptions, and broadening horizons. We are delighted to have Diana Karren, grapegrower and And the reach of the Berkshire Museum is now wider winemaker from Sonoma’s Land of Promise Wines as our than ever. In Kindergarten, an award-winning, interactive Guest of Honor, and we would like to raise a toast to our book developed by the museum to help pre-K children luminaries, winemaker Arielle Fabiano from Balderdash get ready for school, is now, for the first time, available Cellars from right here in the Berkshires, and Shannon statewide, thanks to a generous gift from the Berkshire Walker-Hyde from Hyde Estate Vineyard, who could not Bank Foundation. be with us tonight but has generously donated to the The creative, thoughtful approach that made In evening’s success. Kindergarten possible informs our work now and into We deeply appreciate all that you have done, the future. Every one of the museum’s more than and all that you do, gratefully asking that you bid 40,000 objects has a multitude stories to tell, from a generously and often to support children’s education in variety of different perspectives. We are committed to Berkshire County. actively reinterpreting our collection across disciplines — breaking down the silos that have separated Jeff Rodgers art and history and science. We’re committed to Executive Director continually working to extract those stories and to the ongoing process of crafting them into meaningful exhibitions and programs and experiences. We believe that experiences like these make people and communities better. Elizabeth McGraw President, Board of Trustees Event Details • 3 A MESSAGE FROM YOUR GALA CO-CHAIRS Dear Friends, It is our distinct pleasure to welcome you to the 2019 Berkshire Museum Wine Gala, Women in Wine! For almost two decades, the biennial Wine Gala has been a vital part of fundraising to benefit the Museum’s educational programs. It is our hope that tonight, with your generosity, that tradition continues. As this year’s co-chairs, we have a lot to be thankful for. First, to our Guest of Honor Diana Karren from Land of Promise Wines, thank you for inspiring us with your story and incredible support of our mission. We are grateful to you and your husband Charles for joining us tonight. To our Women in Wine Berkshire Luminaries Arielle Fabiano, Head Winemaker at Balderdash Cellars and Shannon Walker-Hyde, Estate Manager from Hyde Estate Vineyards, thank you for representing a whole new generation of female winemakers who have found roots and inspiration right here in Berkshire County. We are also grateful for the overwhelming donations and tireless support from the Museum Community, Gala Committee, and dedicated Museum Staff including Executive Director Jeff Rodgers as he takes the helm of the institution Zenas Crane built in 1903 and leads it into an exciting new era. Special acknowledgements to Renee Erenburg for bringing our theme to life through décor, Carol Rabin for her scrumptious chocolates and Eric Korenman for capturing our incredible lots on camera. Additionally, we extend a warm “welcome back” to our esteemed auctioneer Charles Antin of Zachys who is tasked tonight with keeping you humored while bidding high and often. Most of all we thank all of YOU for joining us in raising our glasses and our paddles in celebration and support of the Berkshire Museum. Cheers! Wine Gala and Auction 2019 co-Chairs Courtney Addy Wendy Gordon Rachel Melendez Mabee Jacqueline Togut Wine Chair Jim Nejaime 4 • Thank you for your support! GALA COMMITTEE & BENEFACTORS 2019 COMMITTEE 2019 BENEFACTORS as of May 22 CO-CHAIRS SOMMELIER Courtney Addy Wendy & Peter Gordon Wendy Gordon Jacqueline & Albert Togut Rachel Melendez Mabee BALTHAZAR The Donald C. McGraw Foundation Jacqueline Togut Black Rock Foundation WINE CHAIR Elizabeth & Robert McGraw Jim Nejaime Lewis Family Foundation JEROBOAM Courtney & Mike Addy Courtney & Mike Addy Andrew Beckwith Marita & David Glodt Celia Clancy Hill Engineers, Architects, Planners Chyna Cook Heidi & Jim Nejaime / SPIRITED Wines Elizabeth & Douglas Crane MAGNUM Ursula Ehret-Dichter Blue Q Renee & Steven Erenburg Barbara Cohen-Hobbs Renee & Steven Erenburg Marcia & Jonathan Feuer Marcia & Jonathan Feuer Caroline & Ronald Frohne Judith B. & Larry J. Fisher Marita & David Glodt Alexandra Fuchs & Gideon Argov Wendy & Peter Gordon Hannah S. & Mark A. Gross Hellman, Shearn & Arienti Hannah S. Gross Ann & Peter Herbst Ann & Peter Herbst Jen & Bill Hines, Jr. Jayme Kurland & Ethan Klepetar Eric Korenman Photography, L5 Studio Rachel & Eric Mabee Suzanne Nash Bernadette Patynski & Stephen Bayne Lynne & Michael Mazzeo Melissa & Matthew Scarafoni Elizabeth & Robert McGraw Ken Stark Suzanne Nash Jodi & Paul Tartell Susan & Brian Tremblay Heidi & Jim Nejaime Stacey Gillis Weber & Jeffrey Weber Bernadette Patynski & Steve Bayne Caitlin & Gary Pemble WINE Andrew Beckwith Melissa & Matthew Scarafoni Elizabeth & Douglas Crane Ken Stark Virginia & George Elvin Jacqueline & Albert Togut Marla & Jim Greenfield Susan & Denis Toner Rachel & Eric Mabee Stacey Gillis Weber & Jeffrey Weber Lynne & Michael Mazzeo Carol & Gary Scarafoni Marc Wilhelm Suky & Tom Werman Christina & Michael Wynn CORPORATE EVENT SPONSORS THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING Northern Trust INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL PEAK Event Services PROGRAMS AT BERKSHIRE MUSEUM! Event Details • 5 GUEST OF HONOR DIANA KARREN LAND OF PROMISE WINES Diana Karren’s history is a story of a bright mind with a creative spirit pursuing the American dream. With hard work and sacrifices, she is determined to make something special for her children and the generations to follow. Ms. Karren grew up in the former Soviet Union and came to the US to pursue her graduate studies. In her worldly travels, she met her husband Charles while working on a project on the Caspian Sea in 1998, and soon after became engaged at the Temple of Bacchus in Lebanon in 1999. Intent on following their collective dream, they headed back to northern California to look for land. They visited over 100 sites before choosing an old dairy ranch.
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