4+ hour, 5+ min ago  (21+ words) Bahlman resident The Berkshire Eagle Williamstown firefighters converge on a chimney fire at Eagle columnist D. R. Bahlman's home in 1975....

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (819+ words) Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813) of Stockbridge, as seen in a detail of'his portrait by American painter Gilbert Stuart. Sedgwick's fidelity to tradition, order and law established one of independent America's great democratic principles: the peaceful transfer of power.' No memorial honors Theodore…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (349+ words) The Berkshire Eagle For 97 years, local veterans have been holding a memorial service at the War Memorial Tower atop Mount Greylock. Against heavy fog, rain and high winds, local veterans make their way to an annual memorial service inside the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1549+ words) Amusement park operator Art Gillette, of Pittsfield, loved driving a beat-up Cadillac and donning a new hat each year from England Brothers Department Store. In my previous baby boomer story on Storytown, USA, I described how after World War II…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1287+ words) Martin Johnson, of Monument Conservation Collaborative in Connecticut, uses a specialized restoration mortar called Jahn to rebuild the decayed plinth of a headstone during a restoration of the New Marlborough Village Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in the town. Johnson said…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1314+ words) Lawrence Stannard, shown in 1994, returned to the B&A Railroad after World War I, serving as'a fireman on steam locomotives. He later took a job at Rising Paper, where he worked for 37 years until retiring in 1969. Lawrence Stannard took his…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (860+ words) The two brothers were trying to clear rocks from an old defunct well when they saw the boots jutting out from between the stones. It was a warm day in early September 1935. A Chester man, Ambrose Hunt had picked up…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (117+ words) Ghost Town train The Berkshire Eagle Storytown USA expanded in 1957 to include a Western-themed Ghost Town, which featured this train ride. - Support, kindness shine through at Berkshire County Special Olympics - Iztac Mexican Restaurant closed for good after health inspection, landlord…...

1+ mon, 16+ hour ago  (1668+ words) During a reenactment in February 2020, Michael Esposito, portraying an insurgent of Shays' Rebellion, walks with Kevin Titus, portraying a member of the Massachusetts Militia, through the Mahaiwe Cemetery in Great Barrington. There, they visited the grave of" Ephraim Potter, a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (140+ words) Author Pete Abair, author of the historical fiction 'Each Hath a Hand: A Rebellion at Dawn,'will speak April 30 at the Berkshire Athenaeum onthe motivations of those involved in the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775. Pittsfield native Pete Abair,…...