“The Era of Manifestations” was a period from 1837 to the mid-1850s when Shakers came under a spiritual revival marked by visions and ecstatic experiences among the followers.
Exactly why such a small, out-of-the-way business in Dalton, Massachusetts, won a competition to become the single manufacturer of all the paper for the nation’s money is not known, but that doesn’t stop speculation.
The Berkshire history broadsheets are well laid out, richly illustrated and bursting with “news.” The first broadsheet covers 39 years, 1761–1800. The next covered 25 years, 1800–25.
While we like to think the Berkshires is populated with good people and only good people, we are not always right. The combination of bad actors and naiveté has resulted in more than one Berkshire swindle.
There are oral histories with pavilions and pine groves, cabins, casinos and horse barns. What we don’t know is exactly why locals called Lake Averic an echo lake.
The observer watched as the tornado veered south before the Square and missed him, the building in which he stood, and the center of town. That was the last of Pittsfield’s good luck.
On that frigid morning with flames the only light, the citizens of Pittsfield did not stand idly by...They manned the hoses and produced a steady stream of water for no less than four hours.
The first time around, from concept to completion, it took 44 years to establish passenger train service in Berkshire and there is no reason to believe it will take less time to restore it.
