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. Through a competitive bid process, Brian Knight Research was awarded the contract to update the historical inventories. The firm started its work by meeting with Planning...
read more2024 Ice Cream social – Sat July 20 – 12-3
The humidity is due to lift and the sun promises to shine as we remember Peter Miller. Enjoy the Falltown String Band and a cup of ice cream from noon to 3 pm, and speakers remembering our friend Peter from about 1 to 1:45. The event is free of charge. Many thanks to the Mass Cultural Council and Crossroads Cultural District for their support. More details: GREENFIELD — The Historical Society of Greenfield’s annual ice cream social is set for Saturday, July 20. This year, the event will honor Peter Miller, former president of the society and...
read moreNew 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 since submitting this property to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Old Tavern Farm is located at 817 Colrain Road and dates back to 1740. It’s a farm complex begun during the Colonial period and...
read more2024 Speaker Series and Events Calendar
2024 Speaker Series and Events Calendar for the Historical Society of Greenfield 43 Church Street will be open to the public Saturdays from noon to 3 pm from May 11 to September 28. The HSG Speaker Series will be held at the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew on Wednesdays at 6 pm in the Whiteman Room. MAY 22: New Discoveries Pertaining to Old Tavern Farm and its Greenfield Meadows Neighborhood. Gary Sanderson will share some of the new twists he’s discovered since submitting the National Register narrative. JUNE 12: Writing...
read moreNEPM – May 4 and 5 – Greenfield on the picketlines
“At Sword’s Point” will be broadcast on 88.5 NEPM on Saturday, May 4 at noon and Sunday, May 5 at 3 p.m. https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-03-27/at-swords-point/ This hour-long radio documentary, hosted by public historian Tom Goldscheider, recounts these dramatic events of the early 1950s, while also providing important context on the machine tool industry of Greenfield, Massachusetts — once a center of global innovation — as well as the origins of the United Electrical Workers Union, or...
read moreTalk 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...
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