We hope you will enjoy this selection of Christmas postcards from the Library's Special Collections. Santa Claus appears frequently, as one might expect. However, the collection also includes many illustrations of snug woodland cottages [...]
There is a monograph shelved in Special Collections with the title “George Evans Turnure Jr.: Flight Log and War Letters.” It was compiled and privately printed by Turnure’s brother Lawrence in 1936; only 20 [...]
Artwork from a young artist of 1867 has been donated to our archival collection by Patricia Frederick, curator of the Frederick Piano Collection of Ashburnham, MA. Her introductory email is excerpted below: "Among the [...]
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 [...]
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 [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. [...]
