“To me, Ruby is the ideal candidate for the Citizen of the Year,” Rotary Club member Bobbie Hallig told the audience. “She has always sought out ways to support the common good. Here, our mantra in Rotary is service above self. This mantra has been Ruby’s life and she has lived the Rotary’s mantra.”
Why are we honoring a massacre? On the other hand, how many monuments are there to Native American maltreatment? It’s a rare admission of how fiercely we wrestled New England from its indigenous people.
There was public pressure for a better way to reach the Berkshire Heights interior. The grade-level Castle Street/railroad crossing was extremely dangerous.
The public disdained using the new roadbed for several years. You can improve our roads, but you can’t make us use them, people declared silently.
-- Reaction in 1812 to improvements in what would become Route 7
