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 [...]
John Williams: “Lenox, and Tanglewood, has my heart”
What began as a casual local history inquiry ended as a mutual tribute between Maestro John Williams and the Town of Lenox in commemoration of his 90th birthday. Lenox Select Board Member Marybeth Mitts presents [...]
Fanny Kemble presentation now on YouTube
Using unique material from the Lenox Library's archival collections and other primary sources, Local History Librarian Amy Lafave gave a presentation titled “When I think, I must speak:” The World Stage of Fanny Kemble. A [...]
A memory of September 11, 2001 at the Library…
A memory of September 11 at the Library… As events unfolded on September 11, 2001, patrons were coming to the Lenox Library to express their shock, and to obtain information from library staff about the [...]
Tilden was cheated…
The above clip, from the Judge Julius Rockwell Papers at the Lenox Library, is from a letter written by David Davis (campaign manager to Abraham Lincoln, Supreme Court Justice, and U.S. Senator from Illinois) to [...]