A local triangle of remembrance
The origins of Memorial Day began three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, when an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration [...]
2023 Town Meeting Q&A with Kerry Sullivan
In 1775, five days before the news of the battle at Lexington and Concord reached the Berkshires, the Town of Lenox voted to "procure forty muskets with bayonets and cartouch, box” for the local [...]
Amelia Montague Watson: documenting plantation history with her art
Amelia Montague Watson [1856 - 1934] was a watercolorist and photographer from East Winsor Hill, CT. Her best known work was in illustrating a deluxe edition of Henry David Thoreau's travelogue of Cape Cod. [...]
Unveiling the portrait of Judge William Perrin Walker
A former Lenox resident now living in Virginia spotted a painting for sale on EBay. This was the listing: "Here is a very important Oil on Canvas Of the Honorable William Perrin Walker (1778-1858) [...]
The Lenox Library has a new handle at YouTube
A few months ago, YouTube introduced the use of handles as a way to identify a content creator's YouTube channel. Our new handle for our YouTube channel is @lenoxlibrary1856 - it's also part of the [...]
Stonover Photo Album
New York lawyer John E. Parsons joined the summer colony at Lenox in the 1870s. His "cottage," Stonover, was built on Yokun Avenue on the site of the first parsonage for the Church on [...]