2025
Calendar for 2025 season - The new season begins Saturday, May 10 at noon. This year we are offering three exhibits: “Rivers, Roads, and Railroads: Transportation in Our Town”; “Landscapes: Paintings from the Collection”; “Children of Greenfield: A Sampling of Childhood.” Our Speaker Series begins Wednesday, May 21.The popular Ice Cream Social is Saturday, July 19 from 12:00 to 3:00.You […] Jan 16, 2025 – Presentation to highlight historical inventory update - GREENFIELD — In April 2023, Greenfield was awarded a $20,000 matching grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission to review and update documentation of the city’s cultural, historical and architectural resources. The results of this work, bringing new information into the existing inventory forms that were submitted in 1984, will be presented on Thursday, Jan. 16. […]
Interesting
New Discoveries about Old Tavern Farm – May 22 2024 - The Historical Society of Greenfield will host Gary Sanderson for a program titled “New Discoveries about Old Tavern Farm and its Greenfield Meadows Neighborhood” on Wednesday, May 22, at 6 p.m. in the Whiteman Room at the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew, 8 Church St. Sanderson will share new information he has unearthed […] Painting a Legacy – June 15th - Thursday, June 15, please join us for Painting a Legacy: the Search for Anna Judah by Christine Pifer-Foote, at the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew, 7 to 8 pm in the Whiteman Room. The speaker is a researcher at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, and is crossing the country, as the […] Remembering Greenfield’s shoestores - By ROBERT BITZER For the Recorder (2/13/2021) This is a topic I don’t think I have ever written about — shoestores from the past — and I have written extensively about stores and businesses that were part of Greenfield years ago. One of the nicest shoe stores in town, Flemmings, was located on lower Federal […] A whole story about Spring Terrace - Travis Drury, A local author, has decided to use the pandemic to write a detailed history of his street — a small intentional community in the shadow of Poet’s Seat. Created in 1895 off the Orchard of George Grinnell, sold by his son James S. Grinnell to 3 men, who eventually sold all to John […] Peter Miller, local historian Passes - Peter S. Miller, a Greenfield historian known for his collection of local memorabilia and his encyclopedic knowledge of the city’s past, and former Historical Society of Greenfield president died Sunday. He was 82. – See the full article from the Recorder His work (with Tim Blagg) collecting information of cemetery records and other aspects of […]
