He then moved to West Stockbridge and worked with the late Gordon Rose in real estate development in western Massachusetts, where he eventually settled.
After Lenox School closed and became Bordentown School, Bud remained for a bit but moved on to take a job as a shipping assembler for Lenox Machine until 1988, when he could not resist his neverending urge to just travel and to play golf every day that he possibly could.
Michael had become a master woodworker, creating hundreds of pieces of fine furniture and cabinetry. He built his second log home and shop in West Stockbridge.
She taught church school, was a tutor at the Pittsfield Adult Learning Center; and was on the board of directors for the historical society and Berkshire Sanctuaries, where she was also a field guide and gatekeeper.
I have often mused on how my progenitor was granted Pennsylvania and died a pauper. We consider these things just as my grandson places his finger on the scale of history.
We made a beeline for the Liberty Bell, a must-see since Kay had spent much of the summer studying history at the National History Academy in Middleburg, Virginia. Well-guarded and well-run, we meandered through on our own and then headed to Independence Hall.
I am sure my daughter thinks I am a nut. I know she thinks I fuss too much over these things, but I have travelled all over the country and to many parts of the world alone.
I never ate a morsel of the sweet stuff, but I enjoyed every minute of the visit. We built our own candy bars and then took a walking tour and a ride that gave us some background to the place and explained the entire process of candy-making.
How will we, as a community of creative, thoughtful and diversely capable individuals, respond to the circumstances at hand? How will we invest in a greener, healthier, more equitable future?
Mr. Le Beau worked at the former Union Federal Savings Bank in Pittsfield and Springfield from 1951 to 1959 and at the former City Savings Bank of Pittsfield from 1959 until he retired as president and CEO in 1995.
In 1984, she opened her own shop in Lenox, Weaver’s Fancy, where, for 29 years, she sold one-of-a-kind garments made by hand from her fabrics and those of a select group of other craftsmen.
In 1986 Mr. Farnum retired from Becton-Dickinson Medical Supplies in Canaan, Connecticut, where he had worked as an architectural draftsman for 18 years.
She met Merrill Grant, a budding TV producer, and they formed a close working relationship that lasted more than 40 years, until his death in 2015. Their organization produced such hits as “Kate and Allie,” “That’s Incredible” and “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
