Shaker Museum Reopens in Old Chatham for 19th Season
The Shaker Museum in Old Chatham reopened for its 19th season offering 10 to 5:30 hours daily. A color published New Lebanon spirit drawing from 1848 joins new exhibits including tinware from Canterbury and rare molding planes. Joint museum tickets with Hancock Shaker Village go on sale June 1.
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Chatham
N.Y
Eric Sloane
Canterbury
N.H
Enfield
Hancock Shaker
Hancock
Grange card party funds Williams High School scholarship
Stockbridge hosts the third annual Grange card party tomorrow at Procter Hall at 8 p.m. to aid the Williams High School scholarship fund. Prizes and refreshments available. reservations with Mrs Raymond C Mercier or Mrs Wenzel Krebs. Bring your own cards. Also Stockbridge bowling banquet set for Saturday May 10 at the Cove Restaurant Great Barrington at 7 p.m. RSVP to William T Price by Tuesday. Local family announce son Richard B Wilcox Jr, 0, assigned March 29 to the 184th Ordnance Battalion near Qui Nhon Vietnam.
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Stockbridge
The
Grange
Williams High School
Procter Hall
Raymond C. Mercier
Wenzel Krebs
Cove
Great Barrington
William T. Price
Rmy
Richard B. Wilco
Gream D. Wilcox Jr
East Main Street
184Th Ordnance Battalion
Qui Nhon
Vietnam
UMass to Honor 9 Men and 1 Woman at Commencement
Ten individuals will receive honorary degrees at the University of Massachusetts commencement on May 31, with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy delivering the address. Honorees include Archibald MacLeish, Damasio Alonso, Elsworth Barnard, Mrs. Bruce Benson, Walter Cronkite, Howard W. Johnson, David Riesman, Dr. Harry C. Solomon, and Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro.
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Amherst
Edward M. Kennedy
Archibald MacLeish
Conway
University of Massachusetts
Kennedy
Damaso Alonso
Elsworth Barnard
Umass
Bruce Benson
National ‘League of Women. Voters
Walter Cronkite
Howard W. Johnson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David
Becket Fire Crews Battle Forest Fire Near Bancroft
Fire department responded at 1 15 p m Thursday to a forest fire a quarter mile below Bancroft burning twelve acres. Two trucks and five men aided by two state fire rigs under Francis Messer and a Middlefield crew contained the blaze in about two hours. Chief Salvini said a passing train caused the fire. Separately at a Becket selectmen meeting April 23 a Mountain Grove Association club license was awarded on Shaw Pond. A special Becket School meeting with County Commissioners discussed McNerney Road relocation and alteration with work expected next year and a trailer for road equipment arriving. At Hanover a Masonic rite honored Merton E Johnson with a 50 year pin. Arthur L Johnson and family attended. The event took place at the home of Anthony J Gidari. The 86th birthday of Merton Johnson was noted. Col Albert M Jackson and Mrs Jackson, and others had returned from travels in Italy and Greece. Mr and Mrs David Billett of New York City visited their summer home.
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Becket
Selectmen’s
Mountain Grove Association
Shaw Pond
Becket School
McNerney Road
Mitchell J. Mulholland
William Frisbie
Frisbie
Arthur L. Johnson
Benton Hill Road
Hanover
Johnson
Merton E. Johnson
Anthony J. Gidari
Merton Johnson
Federal Lodge
AF & AM
Chester
Wesley J. Scott
Springfield
John R. Bartsch
Richard J. Nobbie
Scott
Arthur Johnson
Albert M. Jackson
Main Street
Italy
Greece
David Billett
New York City
Brenner
Andruses Purchase Elsworth Farm Becket
The Ellsworth farm on Bancroft Road in Becket has been sold to Mr and Mrs Roland L Andrus of Benton Hill Road by Berkshire Land Co Lenox. The six acre property includes an eight room house and will be a year round home. Andrus works for the town. Transaction handled by Paul Metcalf and William Testoni brokers.
State Churches Join in Fight On Job Bias
Boston AP reports ten Massachusetts religious bodies unite for Project Equality to use church buying power to curb employment discrimination. Firms listing will pledge nondiscriminatory hiring and report minority employment and job classifications. Mass participants include Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, Unitarian Universalist, United Church of Christ, Mt Toby Friends, New England Synod, Lutheran Church in America, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and Fall River diocese, Springfield, Worcester, and United Methodist Church.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Project Equality
Equality
Council
Massachusetts Bay
District of Unitarian-Universalist Churches
United Church of Christ
Mt. Toby
The
Religious Society, of Friends
New England
Synod
Lutheran Church In America
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Fall River
Springfield
Worcester
United Methodist Church
National Catholic, Conference For Interracial Justice
Lee 4-H Busy Beavers win ribbons at Berkshire event
Lee South Berkshire 4-H Busy Beavers with 13 members earned hlde ribbons at Berkshire County 4-H Day held April 26 at Crosby Junior High School in Pittsfield. Leader Mrs William Landon led the group which displayed ceramics notebooks and skirts during the dress review.
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South Junior High School
Pittsfield
Wendell &. Moulthrop Af Becket
Lee
Busy Beavers of
South
Berkshire County
Crosby Junior High School
William Landon
Patricia Pratt
Deborah Laudén
Deborah Cacciimo
Patricia Sommerville
Sewer Cleaners Told To Stop Pollution
A cease and desist order was issued to Grandolfo Sweeper Service of East Canaan Conn for polluting trout streams in Lee. Commissioner F William Bell said debris from the firm used to clean storm sewers was dumped into Willow Brook near areas where children fish, violating state and town rules. Further penalties and fines were warned if activity continues.
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Lee
Sewer Commission
East Canaan
Bell
Department of Natural Resources
Town Sewer Department
Grandolfo
Worthington Pomona Grange Meeting in Williamsburg
Worthington Pomona Grange to confer fifth degree at Grange Hall Williamsburg. Hampshire Association to hold annual meeting at Chesterfield Church Sunday at 9 30 with coffee and dessert served. Dr Dee Appley of UMass to speak on Intergroup sensitivities and cross generational communication. Mr and Mrs Eben L Shaw relocate to Mildred Gurney apartment Cummington after winter in Dalton. Elizabeth and Harriette Brewster open Huntington Road home for summer. Elizabeth plans return to Longmeadow Sunday. Henry Jarvis convalescing at home Old Post Road after Cooley Dickinson Hospital stay.
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Hampshire Association
Chesterfield
Dee Appley
Umass Physiology Department
Eben L. Shaw
West Worthington
Mildred Gurney
Main Street
Cummington
Dalton
Elizabeth
Harriette Brewster
Huntington Road
Arthur Q. Smith
Harvey Road
Longmeadow
Henry ‘Jarvis
Qld Post Road
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Northampton
Methodists Gain In Fund Crusade
Members of the First United Methodist Church pledged more than two thirds of their 3465 goal in the Crusade for Reconciliation a nationwide unity drive to offset divisive forces in the country Reverend Lawrence S Staples pastor invites more pledges to the 2350 already raised Pledges may be made Sunday or by appointment Nationally Methodist parishes aim for a 20 million goal.
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Lee
First United Methodist Church
Lawrence S. Staples
Mrs. Sangster’s Guideposts Article From Moonlit Rooftop Garden
Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster of New Lebanon writes the May Guideposts piece My Rooftop Garden about her first flower garden in a 22 story city apartment after her husband’s death. The magazine is edited by Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale and serves readers of many faiths. Women of the Church of Our Saviour meet at Friendship House for lunch at 12 30 with a 2 pm business meeting led by Mrs. John V. Holiar. Lebanon Valley Protective Association meets Monday at 8 pm at the New Lebanon fire station.
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New Lebanon
N.Y
Margaret E. Sangster
The
Christian Herald
Guideposts
Norman Vincent Peale
Ruth Stafford Peale
Church of Our Saviour
Friendship House
John V. Holiar
Lebanon Valley Protective Association
New Lebanon Fire Station
Student Appointed to State Education Conference
Miss Cynthia Pease, a Monument Mountain junior, is set to attend a one meeting conference at the regional state education office on May. Dr Neil Sullivan, state education commissioner, will meet Berkshire County student representatives to improve communication between the state and students on education problems.
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Great Barrington
Cynthia Pease
Monument Mountain
Neil Sullivan
Berkshire County
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