Six Stockbridge ladies joined together to form a club to save at least one Hungarian refugee. Their plan was to invite a refugee to Stockbridge to be housed and fed during the winter. Henry Sedgwick sent Ferdinand Hoffmann.
Since 2012, Betsy Nichols and Joann Farrell have orchestrated the Purgatory Road Haunted Hayride at Nichols' farm in Dalton to raise funds for youth suicide prevention efforts in Berkshire County.
