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.
Tracy Seckler and her husband, Dr. Benjy Seckler, founded Charley’s Fund in 2004. Since that time they have raised more than $36 million to combat the leading genetic killer of boys in the world, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects approximately 30,000 people in the United States, and several hundred thousand children worldwide. Berkshire Waldorf High School announces first writer-in-resident, DJ Thielke.