NORTH ADAMS — Anna Helen (Crofts) McCuen lived a secret literary life.
SAVOY — Bent and twisted trees are not an unusual site in Berkshire County, thanks to Natalie Jeremijenko's "Tree Logic" at the Massachusetts …
SAVOY — "She must have been beautiful once, for weatherbeaten as she is, she is very fine looking, and her straight nose and black bright eyes…
During the summer of 1933, Otis was invaded by a nudist cult.At least that's how a headline in the Boston Globe on May 24, 1933, described the…
ADAMS — When an MTV logo was painted across the front of the Wellspeak's home in August 1988, it wasn't part of some elaborate prank. The graf…
ADAMS — It was on Sunday, Nov. 2, 1851, the elephant Columbus — injured days earlier when he plunged through the wooden Center Street bridge i…
ADAMS — When an MTV logo was painted across the front of the Wellspeak's home in August 1988, it wasn't part of some elaborate prank. The graf…
ADAMS — It was on Sunday, Nov. 2, 1851, the elephant Columbus — injured days earlier when he plunged through the wooden Center Street bridge i…
Did the first written account of maple sugar being made in this country come from the Berkshires? "It Happened First in Berkshire," a column o…
"I think we are making history." Just seconds before Karl B. McEachron, one of General Electric's so-called "Lightning Wizards," spoke, a 15-m…
With flood waters nipping at their heels, a car carrying four men barreled around corners of a country road at top speed, making its way towar…
Before ground was broken in Lanesborough, the Berkshire Mall was proposed for several locations in Pittsfield, and its developers even talked …
Did you know Adams was once home to a castle? It was known as Castle Hathconnor (according to the North Adams Transcript or Castle Rathconnor,…
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"If only they knew, they wouldn't want me there. There is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."Though the words …
LENOX —The beaches of Bar Harbor and Newport, the mountain getaways of the Adirondacks, nor the gleam of the 1893 World's Fair's White City co…
LENOX — Thousands of acres of farm land disappeared from the Lenox landscape in 1910, as three new Gilded Age cottages were raised on Berkshir…
STOCKBRIDGE — On Oct. 20, 1893, Leonard Forbes Beckwith — who built a 31-room mansion name Beckwithshaw overlooking the Stockbridge Bowl — wen…
GREAT BARRINGTON — Upon her death in July 1891, Mary Frances Sherwood Hopkins Searles would be remembered as a philanthropist who shunned oste…
LENOX — How many outfits do you pack when planning for a four-day trip? Depending on your plans, it's probably one to two outfits per day. But…
On Dec. 9, 1893, Marie Louise Fahys was quietly married to Robert W. Paterson, a wealthy widower and family friend 20 years her senior. The we…
When the bachelor Frederick Schermerhorn died in March 1919, he left the widow who summered across the street from his Lenox estate, Pinecroft…
This is not your mother's garden club tour."We've reinvented the wheel," Hilary Somers Deely, co-chairwoman of the Lenox Garden Club's House a…
Seated at the bar of the grand Hoffman House Hotel, gentlemen of the Gilded Age sipped on sours and downed rounds of Planters Punch while enjo…
When the first "serious" snowstorm of the winter visited the Berkshires in late December 1894, it did not arrive without an entourage. Accordi…
LENOX, MASS. — In 1894, the New York Times ran a society column titled, "Lenox has the golf craze: Society hitting a little ball with a crooke…
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