Primary Day, 1986
To put things in perspective, I looked up the last time voters in North County faced a serious race in the Democratic primary on September 16, 1986. Daniel Bosley, then 32, was the clear winner, with...
View ArticleJohn and Yoko’s visit
Thirty years ago this week the news that John Lennon had been gunned down outside his home in New York shocked Berkshires. The day after, the Eagle reported that record store New Wave Music on North...
View ArticleAli-Reza Pahlavi, a son of the Shah who lived in exile in Williamstown, dies
Ali-Reza Pahlavi, the youngest son of the deposed Shah of Iran and graduate of Mount Greylock Regional High School, reportedly took his own life earlier this week at his home in Boston. Pahlavi was...
View ArticleWhen the Civil War began for the Berkshires
It was 150 years ago today that Southern batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, pushing months of sectarian tension into open warfare. Here in the Berkshires, there were plenty of...
View ArticleBob in the Berkshires
I couldn’t let Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday pass without a trip to the archives. Dylan’s first concert in the Berkshires was a surprise appearance with Joan Baez at the Boy’s Club of Pittsfield in August...
View ArticleRemembering Thoreau’s trip up Greylock
In this week’s issue of The New Yorker, staff writer and Williamstown resident Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the “Talk of the Town” section about the time Henry David Thoreau spent a sublime evening...
View ArticleWhen Williams led the way
There is a reason Williams College is consistently ranked one of the best liberal arts college in the nation — and by extension, the world — and isn’t just one of those expensive country clubs where...
View ArticleRemembering a few from the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment
Since so much has happened since, it can sometimes be hard to remember that Memorial Day has its roots in “Decoration Day,” when communities around the country would remember their fallen in the Civil...
View ArticleLong-time Eagle features editor Charles Bonenti retires
Congratulations and best wishes to my former colleague and one-time neighbor Charles Bonenti, the features editor at the Berkshire Eagle who retired last week after nearly 40 years at the paper. In...
View ArticleThe Tenth at Gettysburg
On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, 150 years ago today, as the northern and southern armies were beginning to collide in what would become the turning point of the war, the Tenth...
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