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    Category Archives: Books

    Aug 06 2015
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    Books

    Legendary Locals of the Southern Berkshires

    2014 – New Book Honors Legendary Locals of the Southern Berkshires Local author celebrates notable residents using spectacular, vintage images A new local history book reveals the intriguing characters and accomplished citizens who have made the Southern Berkshires such a wonderful place. Lege...
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    Aug 06 2015
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    One Minute A Free Woman

    Elizabeth Freeman and the Struggle For Freedom Take a journey of heart and mind across time, place, families, and communities. Our journey focuses on the life of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, perhaps the best-known and most influential woman from the Berkshires. In 1781, seeing a contradiction between...
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    Aug 06 2015
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    The Other Side of Glory

    The Berkshire Men of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment The Other Side of Glory focuses on the men from the Upper Housatonic Valley who served in the 54th. It takes its name from the harsh reality that both before the war and after their return there was no glory for most of the men. The [&hel...
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    Aug 06 2015
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    Heritage Area Publication Available for Purchase

    AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE: A Historical Life–Journey of African Americans in The Berkshires, and Its Most Influential Woman. The Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail has published “One Minute a Free Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Struggle for Freedom”. Written by research ...
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    Enjoy the setting sun and a quiet stroll of the flats. For hike and event details/difficulty/directions, click on the name of the hike, visit bnrc.org/upcoming-hikes, or email Mariah at mauman@bnrc.org Berkshire Natural Resources Council 20[...]
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    Pittsfield, MA–A Christmas Carol @ The Colonial Theatre
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    2:00 pm Pittsfield, MA–A Christmas Carol... @ The Colonial Theatre
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    Celebrate the timeless holiday tradition of A Christmas Carol with the whole family, and revel in the joy and redemptive power of Christmas as told in the timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the infamous miser[...]
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    Tickets start at $30! ($15 ages 30 and under) Mahaiwe Member & Youth Discount Event The hit public radio series Selected Shorts takes the stage at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center with an afternoon of[...]
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    Pittsfield, MA–A Christmas Carol... @ The Colonial Theatre
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    Pittsfield, MA–A Christmas Carol @ The Colonial Theatre
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      Friends of the Du Bois Homesite is a community-based organization that supports the restoration, maintenance, stewardship and awareness of the W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite, a National Historic Landmark, as a public memorial to the Great Barrington native who became a leading scholar and activist in the civil rights movement in the United States and […]
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      Housatonic River Walk National Recreation Trail – Gt. Barrington, MA

      The River Walk is a greenway trail along the Housatonic River in the downtown center of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where 2,200 citizen volunteers are working to reclaim the beauty of a “working river” abused by years of industrial waste and neglect. River Walk roughly follows the west bank of the Housatonic River between Cottage Street […]
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