It's first school was known as Tomb School. It has had a Police Chief named Norman Bates, and a weekly paper called The Crow.  Histor...

I get a lot of questions about the old abandoned asylums in Massachusetts, those lovely brick ones with the 'batwing' shaped flo...

continued from Weird in Williamstown: Part 1 Despite its comparative size, the pages of Williamstown history present to our browsin...

Recently it has come to my attention that there is a sentiment on the part of more than one reader that I may have been a tad remiss in my ...

This summer construction will again begin at the Common, as it undergoes an 0.08 million dollar renovation , the second of four planned st...

Continuing a series of scenic and historic hikes in Savoy Forest throughout the past year, I embarked Sunday on an exploration of a few mi...

A little departure from the parade of distinctly New England weirdness featured throughout this blog, I decided to resurrect some samplin...

“ How short the race our children ran Cut down in all their bloom The course but yesterday began Now finished in the tomb.” ...

D.A. Capeless at arraignment for triple homicice- photo J.Durwin iBerskhires Perhaps the local legend I have heard told most often is t...

We've all become accustomed to some hectic weather in the Berkshires, from early blizzards to sudden micro-bursts to hail stones on a ...