Adults will get a chance to test their sills on the ropes course at the Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville. The sixth-grade class will hold a ropes course fund-raiser Sunday, May 22, from 1 to 5 p.m. Anyone age 15 or older can tackle the course for $30 for the afternoon. The fee includes instruction and equipment. To sign up, send an email to cindyinsharon@yahoo.com or call Cynthia at 860-435-9873x110.

Botanist, ecologist, author and educator Jerry Jenkins will lead a workshop in winter botany at Barholomew's Cobble, Saturday, March 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Participants will examine buds, twigs, tree structure and ecology in the numerouse natural communities at the cobble iwht one of New Engalnd's foremots Botanists. To sign up for the program, call 413-229-8600. Trustees and members are $20. Non-members are $25. Bring a lunch. Hot drinks will be provided.

School Vacation Fun Week at Hancock Shaker Village includes 90-minute guided tours of the Laundry/Machine shop, Brick Dwelling and Round Stone Barn with hands-on activities for kids offered in the Discovery Room throughout the day from 10 to 3, Route 20, Pittsfield, 413-443-0188.

Simon's Rock College Winterfest 2005 will present "An Irish Ceiliah!," an evening of Irish song and dance at 8, Simon's Rock College's Kellogg Music Center, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, 413-528-4424.

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