by SWCA E-mail gateway | Jan 1, 2016 | History
By Anne Tiffany In 1990, returning to the family homestead where I was raised, I learned that my school was being called “Little Red.” I rather resented that … and anyway it was never red. Brownish, I remember. (This was 1934 to 1939.) The building is now much larger...
by SWCA E-mail gateway | Sep 24, 2015 | History
Norman Burdick came to his first teaching job in 1955 at the South Center School, following time in the Army and a degree from North Adams State Teachers’ College (now MCLA). In 1955 he taught grades 3, 4, 5, and 6 in one room and had 25 to 30 students each...
by swcaadmin | Aug 24, 2011 | History
(Total distance to and from: 130 miles; total drive time, depending on the length of your stop-offs, 7-9 hours) Some sunny morning soon during good weather, plan to take a lovely rural drive to Fort Edward NY, along the highways described in “Hasty History...
by SWCA E-mail gateway | Jun 18, 2010 | History
by Samuel Y. Edgerton 1. Williamstown: Gateway to Manifest Destiny 2. Ephraim Williams’ Last stand 3. Founding of Williamstown & Williams College 4. The Fort William Henry Massacre & The Last of the Mohicans 5. 1758 & 1759: England’s Triumphant Years...
by swcaadmin | Jun 16, 2010 | History
Was there ever a more egregious representation of “manifest destiny” than this 1872 painting entitled “American Progress” by John Gast? We see here a diaphanous ” Columbia” carrying school books in one hand and a telegraph wire in the other, arrogantly thrusting...
