Bernard A. Drew, his wife, Donna, and daughters have lived in Great Barrington since 1977. He is a newspaper editor and columnist and the author of local Berkshire histories including books about Great Barrington, Monument Mountain, Lake Buel, Beartown, the Knox Trail and, nearing completion, 18th and 19th century waterpowered industry on the Housatonic River. He likes to explore the woods and find the unexpected in plain sight.
Sunday, 11 Mar 2018 - While few of us will miss the tollbooths on the Mass Pike, it’s fascinating to learn that some two ...
Monday, 27 Mar 2017 - Architect Hugh Hardy’s Berkshire roots ran deep. When redemption for the Mahaiwe was in the offing ...
Monday, 12 Dec 2016 - … Ye Holidays are just upon ye Towne and ye Boyes, of wh I counte mine owne selfe as I have beene ...
Sunday, 2 Oct 2016 - There was public pressure for a better way to reach the Berkshire Heights interior. The grade-level ...
Monday, 23 May 2016 - In the shadows of big brothers and sisters, very small buildings served important purposes and have ...
Tuesday, 23 Feb 2016 - Stockbridge — with the accent on “bridge” — has had more bridges over the Housatonic River t ...
Friday, 25 Dec 2015 - The good news of the trains was, they took our textile, paper, dairy and other products to market. T ...
Thursday, 26 Nov 2015 - The neighborhood known as Brooklyn was so-called because many guests at the Berkshire House hotel at ...
Thursday, 8 Oct 2015 - The earliest recorded moving of a house in Great Barrington is in 1793, when the town no longer need ...
Friday, 21 Aug 2015 - Town police had brought in machine guns from Hartford and kept them in the Town Hall basement, just ...
Friday, 7 Aug 2015 - It is a fictional character created and drawn by a one-time Great Barrington resident who is most s ...
Monday, 13 Jul 2015 - There’s a recreation of the Little Red Cottage in Stockbridge where Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne ...
Monday, 25 May 2015 - Many of the very oldest stones in the cemetery are unreadable today. If you rub some of the lichen ...
Friday, 1 May 2015 - Wasn’t entertainment so much simpler in 1925? Just scramble up the side of the building, and every ...
Sunday, 1 Mar 2015 - We are very anxious to have you attend and take the role of principal speaker of the evening. We als ...
Monday, 8 Sep 2014 - “The arrival of that first train is an event to be remembered; it had been expected in the afterno ...