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An interpretive display installed in May sits before the historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church at 9 Elm Court in Great Barrington. Community members formed Clinton Church Restoration to rehabilitate the historic Black church, which W. E. B. Du Bois attended as a child, and repurpose it as a heritage site and visitor center. The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area on Thursday announced a grant of nearly $500,000 that will go toward structural work on the building.BEN GARVER — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE GREAT BARRINGTON — The effort to restore the former building of a historic Black church is “a multi-phase, multi-million dollar project that’s going to take years,” says Eugenie Sills, interim executive director for the nonprofit Clinton Church Restoration.

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