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The Toughest Ticket in Town
One of the great mysteries of our region is why the secretive Dowmel Foundation has made it so difficult to get the free tickets for its annual lecture series that brings some of the great thinkers and newsmakers of our time to the auditorium of Monument Mountain Regional High School.
If you don’t know about the Dowmel ticket distribution system, it works like this: Tickets are distributed a couple of weeks before a lecture on a first come, first serve basis beginning at 8 AM on a Friday at the Berkshire Museum and at 8:30 AM on a Saturday at Monument Mountain (with the school doors opening at 7 AM), which means you have to get up before dawn if you want any chance of snagging a pair of ducats (limit two per customer.)
Rural Intelligence tracked down Roberta Haas, who has been in charge of recruiting Dowmel speakers for the past decade. She was not quite sure how the ticket distribution tradition began. She says that the system was designed to make sure full-time residents would have an edge on getting tickets (which is also why the lectures are always held during the week.) Haas revealed that the lecture series is not funded to go on forever. “Its final year will be 2010 and then it’s over,” she says.
If you want tickets for the last lecture of this season on March 4 when economist Jeremy Rifkin [photo] will deliver a talk entitled “The Hydrogen Economy”—you will need to be at the Berkshire Museum on February 15 at 8 AM or at Monument Mountain Regional High School on February 16 at 8:30 AM.
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