Talk March 13 (GF Library) Did Grandma have a filling station ?
If you missed the initial presentation you have a chance again this coming week, March 13 at the Greenfield Library. Local authors Sara Campbell and Shari Strahan will talk about their book and research. In exploring the town files, they found documentation addressing the special handling of women owning businesses, and the Married Woman’s Property Act of 1855, leading to many interesting stories. A number of these are documented in their new book. Greenfield records of women owned businesses registered under the Married Woman’s...
read moreSpring Terrace Lecture on Video
If you missed the Spring Terrace Lecture or even want to revisit it, you now can, thanks to GCTV: Earlier posts at: About Spring Terrace
read moreSpring Terrace Lecture
This is a follow on to post A whole story about Spring Terrace Travis Drury gave a detailed talk about his personal local history project about the development of Spring Terrace – a small street on the far east side Greenfield, MA – just between Crescent and High St – directly of Orchard and around from George. He has published a book available here and, for the talk created a summary and a detailed research guides for how he found so much information. Also available are over 500 newspaper articles and map we will be...
read moreSpecial openings on Sat Oct 14
So the Weekend of Oct 13-15 is doubly special: The society is open Sat from 9:30-3pm The weekend is Greenfield Vintage days so the society will be open Sat 14, 11-3 And Sat is also the PV Historical Society’s History Trail ‘Following the Trolley trail ‘so that is Sat 9:30-12 noon (When you Click read more there are links for...
read morePainting a Legacy: now online
Christine Pifer-Foote from the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, who spoke on June 15th about “Painting a Legacy: the Search for Anna Judah”, has am online presentation at the Railroad Museum web site: as an Abode presentation. It includes many details about Anna Pierce Judah as well as many related photos of Greenfield. The full video will be available as soon as it is processed and posted. More about the project at: California Railroad Museum The Greenfield Recorder has written about the talk in the issue of Aug...
read moreIce Cream Social on Sat Jun 22 (2023)
July 22 from noon to 3 pm, picture yourself at the annual Historical Society of Greenfield Ice Cream Social! Have a scoop of ice cream and chat under a tent on the lawn at 43 Church Street. More on the FB page Posted by Facebook...
read moreCrazy Judah on TV
The Historical Society of Greenfield and Greenfield Community Television teamed up to produce a radio play from the 1950’s about an important historical figures that just so happens to have ties to Greenfield, MA! Theodore and Anna Judah were key figures in finding funding and, more importantly, surveying the route for the Transcontinental Railroad across America and through the Rocky Mountains. Originally produced by Dupont’s Cavalcade of America and written by Arthur Arent, Crazy Judah premiered in 1950. The Historical Society...
read morePainting 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 railroad did thanks to Theodore Dehone Judah and his work surveying and raising funding for the project with his wife, Anna Pierce Judah, who came from Greenfield. Don’t miss this exciting...
read moreComing soon for 2023
OPENING DAY is coming soon! We are working hard, preparing to be OPEN EVERY SATURDAY from 12:00 to 3:00 pm, May 20 to September 30!! This is a big step up, and we look forward to seeing many more of you at the museum at 43 Church Street this season! We will continue to be open by appointment for research visits year round – email us at Contact us to schedule, and generally the later half of the week is better for our all-volunteer staff. And you can always help out by joining: Membership...
read moreRemembering 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 Street. Elsewhere, on the north side of Main Street, there was Endicott- Johnson. Another retailer, Rosen’s, might have sold shoes although I am not positive about that. Of course, the former Wilson’s Department Store always had a shoe...
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