Local History Librarian Amy Lafave will present The Building at 18 Main: A Survey of Construction and Reconstruction at the Lenox Library at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 10, via Zoom.
The activities at the National Historic Register Building at 18 Main St. have ranged from courthouse activity to library services, with ballroom entertainment in between. The program will be illustrated with never before seen images, including a tour of the attic above the Dome Ceiling.
For more information and the Zoom link, visit lenoxlib.org.
The Lenox Library s Distinguished Lecture Series will continue at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 21, with award-winning photographer Gregory Crewdson. The lecture will take place via Zoom.
In a career spanning more than three decades, Crewdson has produced a succession of widely acclaimed bodies of work. Beneath the Roses, a series of pictures that took nearly 10 years to complete and which employed a crew of more than 100 people, was the subject of the 2012 feature documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, by Ben Shapiro.
Often working with a large team, Crewdson typically plans each image with meticulous attention to detail, orchestrating light, color, and production design to conjure dreamlike scenes infused with mystery and suspense.
PITTSFIELD â Even as criticism of racist imagery in Dr. Seussâ books has grown in recent years, the late author remains popular among children in Berkshire County and across the nation.
There is no consensus among local librarians and early childhood educators on how to handle what has become a heavily debated legacy.
Dr. Seuss Industries, the company established to preserve the late authorâs legacy, will stop publishing six books because of racist imagery, it said Tuesday, the Springfield-born author Theodor Seuss Geiselâs birthday.
The companyâs decision follows years of research by nonwhite scholars that concluded that Dr. Seuss consistently placed nonwhite characters in âsubservient, exotified, or dehumanized roles.â Dr. Seuss âconsistently drew Africans and African Americans as monkeys and apes,â one organization wrote in an Instagram post.
LENOX â The town-owned library is facing a major structural rehabilitation and restoration project to repair and shore up the historic plaster ceiling in the dome room.
The total project cost could approach an estimated $1 million, according to the libraryâs application seeking initial funding of $100,000 from the Community Preservation Committee. Annual town meeting voters make the final decision on requests for support from the taxpayer-funded Community Preservation Act.
An application for $250,000 in support has been submitted to the Massachusetts Cultural Council Facilities Fund, Chief Administrative Officer Christopher Ketchen told The Eagle. The town would invest in the project through its capital budget, and an additional amount might come out of the general fund.
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