Home for the Holidays Auction

Home for the Holidays Auction

HEADS UP… … for the return of the bi-annual holiday dinner and Home for the Holidays Auction, which we will co-sponsor as a benefit for CHS and the Griswold Memorial Library on Saturday, December 3, 2016 at the Colrain Community Church. We’re looking for donated items...
2015 Donors

2015 Donors

CHS wishes to thank those whose generosity in 2015 and since has helped to fund the work we do. Marybeth Chichester Diane O’Connell Nancy Dole Lorraine and Hale Johnson Allan and Kendra Daniel Sally and Alfred Alcorn Marion Stafford Robert and Betsy Sand Prentice...
What We’ve Been Up To

What We’ve Been Up To

It’s been a busy year at the Pitt House and in the out buildings. For a couple of years we’d noticed sinking in that part of the barn that connects its two portions. Water coming off the mountain in back had weakened the foundation under that section. Ken Shearer and...
Rise and Fall of Penn Station

Rise and Fall of Penn Station

In 2016 the Colrain Historical Society celebrates the 120th anniversary of the Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway with a season-long focus on transportation in Colrain’s history. But our first program on Thursday, April 14 is a tip of the (conductor’s) hat to...
Early African Americans in Colrain

Early African Americans in Colrain

At our final meeting for 2015 in October an interesting program presented by Bob Drinkwater of the Association for Gravestone Studies focused on the presence of free and enslaved African Americans in western Massachusetts in the 18th and 19th centuries. Local town and...