While raising their five children, she earned a degree in education and then taught fourth grade at the Stockbridge Plain School for 20 years, retiring in 1987.
Initially Margaret and Joseph Pothul purchased a large tract of land off Lake Avenue in Great Barrington and built their family home, the first on Pothul Drive.
If you think of our country as Christian and sober, it is probably because you are more familiar with our later history. Taverner Root in Lenox was hauled into court when his customers, well-lubricated, were found dancing on tables, singing and shouting.
