It was Austen Riggs who brought the Coonley family to the Berkshires. Riggs founded his therapeutic community in 1919. Mary Lord Coonley was on the first board of trustees.
In 1902, while attending a conference for the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Great Barrington, Frederick Stark Pearson purchased the Tuller farm on Seekonk Cross Road.
“HVA is excited about collaborating with Historic New England to offer public programs and displays at Merwin House that connect the river, its ecology and our local history here in the Berkshires.” --Dennis Regan
"From Madness to Music" illustrates the power of music to bring people, particularly young people and those living in conflict regions, together on common ground.
A graduate of Katherine Gibbs, Christine worked at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City and later for Colonel Harwood at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington.
Western MA Beer Fest in Dalton; Berkshire Playwrights Lab stages reading of Jim Frangione's new play, "Flight of the Monarch"; Free Fun Friday at Jacob’s Pillow; “Van Gogh’s Ear” at AIER; Housatonic River canoe trip sponsored by Mass Audubon and Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary.