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By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — If we take down monuments and there is no physical record of their having existed, would we forget about the past? How can we use historical objects to see how we came to that juncture in time and to inform where we need to go in the...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — As the archaeological search for artifacts from the Great Falls Massacre continues, landowners and interested residents are being invited to a question and answer session to learn more about the ongoing work.The meeting, hosted by the...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

SHELBURNE FALLS — Despite some unforeseen circumstances casting a shadow on the event, art, music and food highlighted the beauty of Indigenous culture during the Shelburne Historical Society’s third annual Indigenous Peoples Celebration on...

By BELLA LEVAVI

DEERFIELD — Residents connected with their roots through dancing, food, vendors and cultural heritage societies as part of the Eastern European Heritage Festival over the weekend.The event was held at the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA)...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Maybe you’ve walked past the statue in front of the Leavitt-Hovey House on Main Street and not known who it depicted, or what exactly the soldier’s significance was to the area.Or maybe you’ve brought visitors to Poet’s Seat Tower, but...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HATFIELD — A century ago, and many years before Interstate 91 was constructed, Hatfield was connected to neighboring and nearby Franklin County communities Whately, Deerfield and Greenfield via a trolley route.On Saturday, the public is invited to...

By TOM ZINITI

Not far from the town common on Athol Road in Warwick, you’ll come across the Trinitarian Congregational Church. The building looks more like a house than a church. There is no steeple. Look left, though, and you will see a tower made of four 40-foot...

By CHRIS LARABEE

For years, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) held a series of festivals celebrating the town’s rich eastern European heritage, but the 2008 Great Recession’s financial challenges forced them to put it on hold.Now, 15 years later, PVMA...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A Virginia man has made it his mission to preserve in perpetuity a modest monument dedicated in his town to Lt. Col. Russell Hastings, a Greenfield native who was severely wounded in 1864 during the Third Battle of Winchester in the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — As the Sunderland Public Library continues its series exploring social justice, it is hosting a free presentation Wednesday evening on the presence and role of slavery in the valley and across New England.The library is welcoming...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — Archaeologists will ask the permission of “a couple hundred” property owners to collect 17th-century artifacts along the final stretch of the Great Falls Massacre’s colonial retreat route within the next two weeks, according to the...

By CAROLE GARIEPY

Betty, an 1812 pirate, and her husband Mike, a confederate soldier, participate in reenactments that bring history to life.First, let’s learn about Betty the pirate. She’s a special education teacher with a passion for history who decided to expand...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Massachusetts Peace Statue in the center of Memorial Park is getting some work done, thanks to a matching state grant paying for its professional conservation.Also known by the words engraved on its bronze plaque, “It Shall Not Be Again,”...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — What began as a search to find an item to supplement an exhibit at the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) turned into something potentially dangerous on Monday.While looking for an architectural piece related to an old doorway...

By BELLA LEVAVI

To help visitors learn about 20th-century painter Robert Strong Woodward’s mark on the area, the Friends group dedicated to keeping his memory alive has installed new signs at the locations of his Buckland and Heath studios.“We just think he is a...

By DOMENIC POLI

NORTHFIELD — Patricia Preston’s career as a neurobiologist has helped make her a well-traveled woman.The Spanish national earned a master’s degree in Seattle and now works in a research laboratory at the University of Tübingen in Germany, a job that...

By BELLA LEVAVI

COLRAIN — While the Griswold Manufacturing Co. and the businesses that came after it — most recently Barnhardt Manufacturing Co. — may be a thing of the past, the landscape is not without reminders of the village’s history. One such reminder is the...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — With one of the American Arts and Craft movement’s masterpieces on display through March, Historic Deerfield’s annual fall forum is dedicated to exploring how the movement grew and flourished in town.The forum will be held on Friday, Sept....

By CARLA CHARTER

John Erving, in approximately 1752 or 1753, bought 16,000 acres of land from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, then Massachusetts Bay Colony. This land included all of what is now Erving, half of Wendell and parts of Orange and New Salem.“He was at...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — With a variety of offerings from historical societies, including a Hilltown History Trail beginning in 2022, local history appears to be captivating the masses in western Franklin County.Historian Susan Samoriski is capitalizing on...