Last March, U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) a member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo became the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. President Biden appointed Rep. Haaland to be Secretary of the Interior Department the federal.
Last March, U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M. a member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo became the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. President Biden appointed Rep. Haaland to be Secretary of the Interior Department the federal.
There s so much to love about Great Barrington including the natural beauty of landmarks such as Lake Mansfield, Fountain Pond State Park, Monument Mountain Reservation and so on. Then there are the historical and cultural attractions. For example the Great Barrington Historical Society, the W.E.B. Du Bois National Historical Site and the Guthrie Center to name a few. Great Barrington isn t short on live music either as the Great Barrington Summer Concert Series is in full swing and get ready for Berkshire Busk (a 10 weekend summer event beginning in July). Then of course you have the variety of local restaurants, shops, antique stores etc. This combination is what makes Great Barrington such a desirable place to work, play, visit and live.
Stephen D. Butzâs book âShaysâ Settlement in Vermontâ (History Press, 2017) reveals a little-known side of the Shaysâ Rebellion story that played out in a final confrontation in Sheffield in 1787.
When Perez Hamlin and other Regulators yielded to a superior Massachusetts militia force that chilly February day, instigators of the farmersâ revolt including Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays were elsewhere, sheltering on a mountaintop north of Arlington, Vt., on the New York border.
That location has become an active archaeological site. Butz merges scarce documentary sources with evidence found on the ground (recovered during several summer field schools) that remote Egg Mountain was home to a small community cluster that included a fort, a mill, a store and several dwellings.
As of Friday, the GoFundMe campaign had raised just over $5,800 of its $100,000 target.
The 120-member land trust, formed in 1991, bought the forested quarry in 1999 for $300,000. The preservationists jumped in to keep a company from buying the quarry and excavating millions of cubic yards of granite for Bostonâs $8 billion Central Artery/Tunnel project, infamously known as the Big Dig.
Since the purchase, the land trust has developed 10 trails of varying difficulty, the main trail off Quarry Road going from a parking area directly to the quarry. Smith noted that, in recent years, the Appalachian Mountain Club has helped expand the trail system.