This grant supports ongoing restoration, building on over $500,000 secured since 2020, and advances the site’s future as a center for education, culture, and public programming led by the Du Bois Freedom Center.
“A Year by the Sea’ has several Berkshire connections, among them the lead actress Karen Allen, as well as a key character, Joan Erikson, widow of the renowned psychologist Erik Erikson who worked at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge.
