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    Category Archives: Books

    Aug 06 2015
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    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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      Campbell Falls State Park – Norfolk, Conn

      Campbell Falls State Park Reserve was a gift to the State of Connecticut and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the White Memorial Foundation of Litchfield Connecticut. The Whiting River, rising in Massachusetts, falls nearly 100 feet before entering Connecticut. The park was placed under protection of the two states in 1923 and special laws were […]
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      Ashuwillticook Rail Trail – Lanesborough, Cheshire, Adams, No. Adams, Mass

      The  11-mile Ashuwillticook Rail Trail wends its’ way through the back woods history and natural beauty of 4 Berkshire County communities, tracing roughly the same travel route Native Americans and later early settlers used centuries ago.  It was an abandoned railway corridor that was then transformed into a paved trail for walkers, bikers, rollerbladers and […]
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      Housatonic Valley Association – Cornwall Bridge, CT & Stockbridge, MA

      Protects The Housatonic River & Its Watershed Housatonic Valley Association P.O. Box 28 Cornwall Bridge, CT 06754 Phone: 860-672-6678 —AND— Housatonic Valley Association P.O. Box 496 14 Main Street Stockbridge, MA 01262 T: (413) 298-7024 www.hvatoday.org The Housatonic Valley Association, founded in 1941, works to conserve the natural character and environmental health of our communities […]
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      Connecticut Antique Machinery Association – Kent, CT

      The Connecticut Antique Machinery Association is a non-profit museum dedicated to the preservation, restoration and demonstration of antique machinery from our rich industrial and agricultural past. CAMA is an all-volunteer organization. In April–Annual Spring Power-Up – CAMA opens the season with a salute to our own machinery collection. Exhibitors are welcome to bring their antiques […]
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      Ventfort Hall Mansion & Gilded Age Museum – Lenox, Mass

      Ventfort Hall is an imposing Elizabethan-style mansion built in 1893 for Sarah Morgan, the sister of J. P. Morgan. Designed by the architects Rotch & Tilden, it is located in Lenox, Massachusetts. The town of Lenox was the center of the social season in the Berkshires during the Gilded Age, the period between the Civil […]
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      Naumkeag Museum and Gardens – Stockbridge, Mass

      One of the Berkshires’ original gilded-age “cottages”, Naumkeag is famous for its eight acres of terraced gardens and landscaped grounds surrounded by forty acres of woodland, meadow, and pasture that stretch to the Housatonic River Valley. The gardens and landscaped grounds, first designed in the late 1880s by Nathan Barrett, were transformed and expanded between […]
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      Stockbridge Land Trust – Stockbridge, Mass

      Our purpose is to assist landowners in preserving the scenic countryside of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We are also involved in facilitating the acquisition of land for affordable housing.
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      Jacob’s Ladder Scenic Byway — Route 20 in Becket & Lee, Mass

      Jacob’s Ladder Scenic Byway–From the rocky heights of Mt. Tekoa, in Russell, MA, to the Lee/Lenox town line in Berkshire County, the Jacob’s Ladder Scenic Byway winds through the small towns of Russell, Huntington, Chester, Becket and Lee, providing views of the Wild and Scenic Westfield River along the way. Known also as the “Jacob’s […]
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      The Mount – Edith Wharton’s Estate – Lenox, Mass

      The Mount – Edith Wharton’s Estate – Lenox, Mass The Mount was the home of Pulitzer-prize winning author Edith Wharton, who designed the house and gardens with the same intelligence and sensitivity that distinguishes her writing. Edith Wharton created her gardens as architectural compositions, divided into rooms, and planned in concert with the house and […]
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