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Saturday, December 19, 2009

The Federal Writers' Project: Ella Bartlett, Brookfield, Massachusetts

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In the 1930s, every fourth working-age American one met was likely to be unemployed, a victim of the crash of United States' economy an...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Photographs: Blurred Lights and Christmas Thoughts

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It's easy at Christmas to get caught up in the whirl, the perpetual-motion machine that blurs light and bends time in the quest for fue...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Western Massachusetts: A Home in Our Hearts

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Here in Western Massachusetts we have much for which to be grateful. Our landscape is an Eden of elements, carved by the hand of Mother N...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Photographs: A Fall Farm Stand in Franklin County, October, 1941

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Autumn in Western Massachusetts is bonfires and spiced cider, rake tines teased by the dance of leaves in a brisk October wind, cozy-windowe...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Map: Bird's-eye View of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1899

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Pittsfield was eight years a city when this bird's-eye view map was published by A. M. Van de Carr in South Schodack, N. Y., in 1899. P...

The Federal Writers' Project: Adam Laboda, Pittsfield, Massachusetts

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Pens struck idle during the Great Depression were set to scratching again courtesy of the U. S. government's Works Progress Administrat...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Photographs: Forest Park at the Turn of the 20th Century

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Springfield's Forest Park is truly a precious gem in the New England crown of beauty that is Western Massachusetts. Lakes and lotus, ba...
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