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. [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
