Issue: October 2020
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With colleges gone, new plans for campuses take shape
The campus of Green Mountain College, seen here in its final semester of operation in 2019, was sold at auction in August to an entrepreneur who says he hopes to revive it as an agricultural work college. The campus is one of three in southwestern Vermont that are in the process of being converted read more
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Local role in push for women’s rights
Show highlights friendship of Susan B. Anthony, Hubbard Hall founder David Snider and Kathrine Danforth of Hubbard Hall display a new historical marker commemorating Susan B. Anthony’s 1894 visit to the hall as she campaigned for women’s rights. Hubbard Hall will explore the region’s role in the women’s suffrage movement in a new play, read more
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Election 2020 Preview
Here are the candidates and referendum questions on ballots for the Nov. 3 federal and state elections across the region. Because of space limitations, uncontested races are not included. A guide to political party abbreviations is at right. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). MASSACHUSETTS President and Vice PresidentJoseph R. Biden and read more
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Seeking strength and sanctuary
At MCLA artists put college’s focus on immigration Trinh Mai Thach works on a portrait of her husband at her studio in southern California. The work will be shown at Gallery 51 in North Adams as part of a yearlong show related to immigration.courtesy photo By KATE ABBOTT Contributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. In her read more
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In ranked-choice voting, a cure for what ails
As this issue of the paper goes to press, our ears are still ringing from an event that was billed as the first presidential debate of the campaign season. It was, of course, neither presidential nor debate, and the term harassment seemed more apt as the president repeatedly interrupted and heckled both his opponent and read more
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An editor unmoved by patriotic hoopla
On March 3, 1876, the Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge, N.Y., served a “Centennial Supper” of pork and beans, rye bread and tea. D.R. Byrum, a sewing machine dealer from Whitehall, advertised his upcoming sale as “A Great Centennial Outrage!” Across the region, there was plenty of excitement about the 100th birthday of the United read more