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.
Mrs. Macken worked as cook and manager at the former Stockbridge Plain School from 1969 until 1984. From 1990 until 2006, Freda worked as a part-time receptionist for the Marion Fathers in Stockbridge.
St John, just across the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, has been expanding its deepwater port, serving as a tanker depot for oil and gas. This is where the disputed gas pipeline that would run through Berkshire County would end up.
There is no astronomical reason to begin the calendar year in January. The custom dates back to the Romans, who set the New Year to begin in the month of January, which celebrates the two-faced god Janus — one face looking back into the past, while the other peered forward into the future.
