March 2026
Poor in the Berkshires: Poverty and Public Relief Before 1935
The Pittsfield Town Farm, or Poor Farm, now the site of Berkshire Community College. In this lecture presented by the Berkshire County Historical Society and The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Cynthia Farr Brown examines questions related to related to poverty and public relief in the Berkshires before 1935. What happened two centuries ago when people had no food, no housing, or no fuel? Where did people go for support? How did they understand poverty? What did law and custom prescribe?…
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Ghosts of Broadhall
Robert Oakes, ghost tour guide and author of Ghosts of the Berkshires, will team up with paranormal investigator Drew Babineau, owner of The Haunted Raven, to offer a combined ghost tour and paranormal investigation of the Country Club of Pittsfield Country Club of Pittsfield, Collection of BCHS At the start of the evening, Oakes will lead a walk by flashlight through this historic property, sharing accounts of spirit sightings and other strange encounters reported by those who work there. Babineau…
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