Local events

Special openings on Sat Oct 14

Posted on Sep 20, 2023 in Local events | 0 comments

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

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Ice Cream Social on Sat Jun 22 (2023)

Posted on Jul 20, 2023 in Local events | 0 comments

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.

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Painting a Legacy – June 15th

Posted on Jun 14, 2023 in Local events | 0 comments



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 presentation!

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Coming soon for 2023

Posted on Apr 20, 2023 in Local events | 0 comments

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!!

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7-23-22 Ice Cream Social at the Museum (THIS SAT – Come on down)

Posted on Jul 13, 2022 in Local events | 0 comments


Marys birthsay


The Historical Society of Greenfield invites you to join us OUTSIDE on the lawn to celebrate Mary P. Wells Smith’s birthday with ice cream generously donated by Foster’s Supermarket! An outstanding woman born in 1840, she is well known as the author of “Boy Captive of Old Deerfield,” as well as 20 other children’s books. She was a civic-minded and progressive activist, and we celebrate the 176th anniversary of her birth! Come and enjoy an ice cream, photo fun, and “Mary’s Fan Club”!

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Peter Miller, local historian Passes

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 in Local events | 0 comments


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 Greenfield
can be searched here.

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