National treasures here in Berkshires
To the Editor of THE EAGLE: I wholeheartedly agree with Elaine Gunn (letter to the editor, Aug. 14) who spoke so highly about the exhibit at the Old Stone Store in Sheffield, that wonderfully documented the rich history of African Americans in Berkshire County. Mrs. Gunn and I also visited an exhibition at the Du Bois Center in […]
Great Barrington Maestro Peress to speak
GREAT BARRINGTON — Maestro Maurice Peress will be appearing at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20, at the Du Bois Center , 684 South Main St. Having worked with Duke Ellington on the “Suite from Black, Brown and Beige,” Peress will speak on ” ‘Black, Brown and Beige,’ from unpublished poem to a seminal worked premiered at Carnegie […]
Historical Society launches series
Saturday, July 01 GREAT BARRINGTON — The Great Barrington Historical Society will launch its biweekly “Films That Matter” series at its new Visitors’ Center in the Du Bois center on South Main Street. Each film will be hosted by a noted film critic, a writer or someone associated with that particular film. The series will kick off […]
Debate over Du Bois
GREAT BARRINGTON — Education and outreach to local schools were the two principal conclusions reached Saturday by a panel of experts who discussed the best ways to use the newly opened W.E.B. Du Bois Center on South Main Street. A host of professors from about 40 colleges and universities were on hand for the special seminar, including Edmond […]
W.E.B. Du Bois is focus of Great Barrington history center
Adopting communism shouldn’t diminish contributions, supporter says GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. Randy Weinstein doesn’t expect everyone in Great Barrington to feel exactly the same way he does about W.E.B. Du Bois. That’s not the point of the Du Bois Center for American History that Weinstein opened in February on Route 7 in this Berkshires community, Du […]
Du Bois Center plans ‘think tank’
GREAT BARRINGTON — More than 40 scholars will gather next Saturday, June 17, at the W.E.B. Du Bois Center of American History to participate in a daylong “think tank” discussion about the future direction and role of the center. Organized by founder Randy Weinstein and Egremont resident Carl Kaestle, a professor at Brown University and a member of […]
Workshop on Harlem Renaissance
GREAT BARRINGTON— “Teaching the Harlem Renaissance,” a workshop for Berkshire County teachers, will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Du Bois Center of American History, 684 South Main St. The morning session, “The Harlem Renaissance and the Berkshires: The Quiet Connection,” will be taught by James Sterling King of Simon’s Rock College. The […]
From Great Barrington to Ghana
A shot of one of the bleak and forbidding dungeon doors in Elmina. The monument outside the W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Center for Pan-African Culture in Accra. Thursday, March 16 January 2006. Roselle Chartock and her small group had been in Ghana for two weeks and this was their last stop. They had traveled the slave trade route, […]
