Category: Local history

Contributing writers will sally into archives and recover stories and voices from the past, from many communities in this independent stretch of hills between wide rivers and the Taconic and Hoosic ranges and the Green mountains.

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    Reviving a slice of Pittsfield history

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    Century-old play set to return to Colonial stage By NANCY ROTHMAN Contributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass.A little more than 100 years ago, a local playwright and a composer dug into Pittsfield’s past to create a lighthearted look at the events near the end of the War of 1812. The result was a comedic opera, called “The read more

    Reviving a slice of Pittsfield history