Welcome New Year 2026
We are closed for the winter. We do take appointments for in-house research if you email on the contacts page.
Projects:
We are working away on various projects that could use help, for example, there are still boxes from Peter Miller that need archiving.
Lectures:
Also there an ongoing project digitizing society lectures dating back into the 1800s.
That is a 2 part process, our volunteers are using modern scanners to copy a printed copy.
That only does part of the job, since these are old typed copies and can not be very accurately scanned. These means there is a open project to review the scanned results and edit from the original printed copy in the word document that is also made when scanned.
You can see those that have been done, read and even vote for those that have not been done.
The whole list of those done and to be done
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 will find the program for the season attached.
We hope to see you in the museum and at the talks!
NEPM – 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 UE.
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 Property Act.
You can get the book at the talk, signed of course, or at Lulu (appropriately enough)
Scroll down and see a chapter.
More articles about their talks at:
- Mar 13, 2024 – Upcoming GF Library talk
- Feb 2 – talk at GF Senior Center
- North Quabbin Talk – Dec 2023
And here is a chapter to seed your interest:
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 making available.
The guide and summary can be found here: /about-spring-terrace
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