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One Step At A Time at Glendale Falls
One Step at a Time Down
Glendale Falls needs volunteers like you August 7th 9am-1pm.
Come for all or part of the day, bring your friend and family to
pitch in. Don't forget gloves and your favorite shovel.
The Trustees of Reservations and the Westfield River Wild and
Scenic Committee have joined forces with community members to build
rustic stairs and a woodland trail for the purpose of restoring and
exploring this beautiful hidden treasure. Glendale Falls is one of
the highest waterfalls in Massachusetts, but the decent is daunting,
those that do brave the walk are unwittingly causing erosion. What
better way to give back to the river that inspires us all than by
helping protect and preserve it.
Call Meredyth Babcock at 413-623-2070 to sign up and for directions.
Hancock
Shaker Village Announces 50th Anniversary Programming
Hancock Shaker Village
Upcoming Summer Events 50th Anniversary Gala and Family-Friendly
Charter Day, New Tours, Workshops, and More
Hancock Shaker Village’s 50th
anniversary celebration continues through the summer with major
special events, including a festive Gala and family-friendly Charter
Day, newly-designed tours titled “A Young Shaker's Tour - For Kids
Only!” and “Attic Access Tour,” woodworking workshops, and the
“Return and Learn” series of lectures and workshops on a variety of
Shaker-inspired topics, plus a book signing by author Ilyan Woo and
a Limited Edition Shaker Button Box Signing by master artisan Steve
Grasselli. Details on all of these events follow below. Hancock
Shaker Village is open from 10:00am to 5:00pm daily for self-guided
visits through October 31. Hancock Shaker Village members and
children 12 and under are admitted free of charge. Admission for
adults is $17.00 and youth visitors aged 13 to 17 are $8. On Ten
Dollar Tuesdays, admission for adults is $10. For more information,
call 800.817.1137 or go to
www.hancockshakervillage.org.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Hancock Shaker Village 50th
Anniversary Gala
August 7, 5:00pm
Hancock Shaker Village
presents its 50th Anniversary Gala. The celebration will honor the
founders and friends who have been associated with the Village
during its first 50 years, and will look to the living history
museum’s future. The evening kicks off with a preview of the
exhibition Simple Gifts: Contemporary Artists Celebrate the Shaker
Legacy in the Poultry House and Shaker-inspired performances by
Shakespeare & Company’s founder, Tina Packer and the Cantilena
Chamber Choir, with guest artist mezzo-soprano Deborah Rentz-Moore,
in the Round Stone Barn. There will also be a Shaker-themed dinner
catered by Savory Harvest Catering, followed by dancing to the music
of The Brethren, a swing and jazz band featuring Jeff Link and
Charlie Tokarz. Tickets range from $125 to $500 and may be purchased
by calling Hancock Shaker Village at 413.443.0188 extension 115.
Charter Day
August 21, 10:00am – 5:00pm
Charter Day will be a
family-friendly celebration of Hancock Shaker Village’s official
"birthday" as living history museum. This fun-filled day will
include lawn games, wagon rides, Shaker story time, and musical
concerts for children by Mister G. Charter Day will also feature the
world premiere of Clara and Claire, a short play for young audiences
written and directed by Juliane Hiam and conceived by Sharon Smullen
on the occasion of Hancock Shaker Village’s 50th anniversary. Two
local 12-year-old actresses, Rebecca van der Meulen and Harper
Glantz, will play girls from different places in time who have a
magical, accidental meeting at Hancock Shaker Village.
Additional activities will include ongoing historical artifact and
contemporary art exhibits, a community slideshow, and a display of
the founding documents, as well as regular daily tours and
demonstrations. On Charter Day, admission is half-price ($8.50 for
adults and $4 for youth visitors aged 13 to 17) and free for members
and children 12 and under.
NEW TOURS
A Young Shaker's Tour - For
Kids Only!
10:30am & 1:30pm Daily
July 19 - September 3
Rates: $10 for Non-HSV
Members/ $8 Members
Children can now see the
Village through the eyes of a Shaker child - how they lived and
played to where they went to school. This kids-only tour conducted
by our Senior Interpreter for Child and Family activities, includes
a make-and-take craft, visits to areas of the Village that show how
Shaker children lived, including the Dwelling, Schoolhouse, and Barn
Complex. Children will be returned to their parents with a framed
photo of them in Shaker costume.. For children 6 - 12 years of age.
Attic Access Tour
July 31, August 14, September 18, and October 16
Rates: $27 for Non-HSV Members; $24 for Members
Presenters: Todd Burdick, Education Director, and Lesley Herzberg,
Collections Manager
Ever want to go beyond those
"Museum Staff Only" signs and see what's behind closed doors? Sign
up for this special tour and you'll get to peek into the nooks and
crannies of rarely seen areas, normally closed to the public, which
feature unique Shaker architectural details and design styles well
ahead of their time. The tour will also explore curatorial storage
areas and view furniture and artifacts not on view to the general
public. Tour runs approximately 90 minutes and includes upper floors
and basements of three highlight buildings. Space is limited and
reservations are required. Participants must be able to negotiate
multiple sets of stairs (up to six stories); proper footwear
required.
BOOK SIGNING AND LIMITED
EDITION SHAKER BUTTON BOX SIGNING
Book Signing and Reading
July 24, 1:00pm
Ilyan Woo, The Great Divorce
The Great Divorce is a
scandalous true tale involving a distraught mother, her errant
husband, their missing children, and the Shakers—a utopian society
that is now best known for their furniture, but was something quite
different in the formative years of American history. There was a
time when married women had few rights of their own. In 1815, Eunice
Hawley Chapman fought back, taking on her husband, the law, and a
reclusive religious sect known as the Shakers. She made history.
This, for the first time, is her story. Published by Grove Atlantic.
Paperback, $25.
At 2:00pm following the book signing, there will be a dramatic
reading of excerpts from The Great Divorce in the Brick Dwelling.
Limited Edition Shaker
Button Box Signing
July 25, 3:30pm
Steve Grasselli, Limited Edition Button Box Signing
Master box maker and
artisan-in-residence Steve Grasselli will be dating, numbering, and
signing a limited edition of 50 Shaker Button Boxes created in honor
of Hancock Shaker Village's 50th anniversary as a living history
museum. The boxes are painted in an especially distinctive
and significant “Antique Rose,” which was the color of the Horse
Barn at Hancock Shaker Village from 1880-1905. The "pink barn" is
noted in a number of Shaker journals of the day, and is being
returned to its historic color this summer. This is a unique piece
and supplies are limited, so contact the Village Store today at
413.443.0188 ext 246 to reserve your very own signed and numbered
work of Hancock craftsmanship and art. Box is $100.
“RETURN & LEARN” EVENTS
Lecture: Integrating Shaker
Style into Your Home
July 29, 2:00pm
Presenter: Gladys Montgomery, Editor, Berkshire Living Home + Garden
Magazine
The Shakers were famous in the
19th century for their creativity, design, simple style, and quality
craftsmanship and the Shaker aesthetic is still appealing to the
world’s people today. Not only are original Shaker artifacts highly
sought after in the antiques marketplace, but a wide variety of
replicas, reproductions, and adaptations of Shaker design are
available as well. Don’t we all want to simplify our lives? This
session will help guide you as you learn about and discuss various
approaches and ways to incorporate Shaker design and style into your
home. Free to members or free with admission.
Lecture: Modern Day
Intentional Communities
August 4, 2:00pm
Presenter: Daniel Greenberg, Executive Director, Living Routes
“Intentional Community” is an
inclusive term describing a group of people who choose to live and
strive together with a common vision. As part of its 50th
anniversary celebration, Hancock Shaker Village is hosting a series
of panel discussions with contemporary intentional communities.
Living Routes, based in Amherst, Mass., creates opportunities to
purposefully live and learn within an international network of
human-scale communities called “ecovillages”. These communities are
based on a holistic view of sustainability, and “consciously strive
to live well and lightly.” This presenter will give an overview of
the goals, practices, mission, and vision of Living Routes and the
many different eco-villages. Free to members or free with
admission.
Lecture & Book Signing: The
Locavore Way
August 8, 1:00pm
Presenter: Amy Cotler
In this lively and inspiring
conversation with renowned culinary professional (a.k.a. food
fanatic) and farm-to-table advocate Amy Cotler, she will discuss the
Locavore movement, which emphasizes the many benefits of local
eating and seasonal cooking. A recognized pioneer in the field, she
was the founding director of Berkshire Grown, an early local farm
and food advocacy organization that has become a national model.
Copies of her recent book, The Locavore Way, will be available for
sale and signing.
Tour: Metal Ware
August 18, 2:00pm
Presenter: Lesley Herzberg, Hancock Shaker Village Collections
Manager
This “curator’s tour” offers a
rare opportunity to examine up-close some original artifacts from
the Hancock Shaker Village collection. Hand-forged iron hardware,
copper kettles, tin ware, kitchen implements, cast iron woodstoves,
and all types of hand tools…these are some of the heavy and
not-so-heavy metal artifacts, designed and crafted by the Shakers,
that you will learn about in this session. The tour will also
include accounts of the Hancock Shakers’ iron ore mining operations,
and a visit to the Village forge to talk with blacksmiths as they
carry out their craft in the authentic setting. Free to members or
free with admission.
Workshop: Sing like a
Shaker (Family Fun!)
August 27, 1:00pm
Presenters: Todd Burdick, Hancock Shaker Village Director of
Education, and HSV Staff Interpreters
Shaker worship has always
intrigued the world’s people, since it incorporated not only
praying, speaking, and singing, but also dancing – called
“exercises” and “laboring” by the believers themselves. Through
motions and movements, such as bowing, bending, turning, marching,
and shaking, the believers would “labor before the Lord.” This
enthusiastic and energetic worship is what earned them the name
Shaker. This program, great for all ages, will be held in the
Meeting House, the authentic Shaker Sunday worship location during
the warmer months. Led by Hancock Shaker Village staff dressed in
Shaker costume, you’ll learn Shaker songs with accompanying motions,
and be invited to sing-a-long with some Shaker tunes, including the
well-known “Simple Gifts.” Free to members or free with admission.
What’s it Worth? An
Informal Appraisal of Your Antique
August 30, 2:00pm
Presenter: Charlie Flint, Charles L. Flint Antiques Inc.
Ever wonder about the history,
craftsmanship, and background of that antique harvest basket you use
in your garden? Could that old framed painting you picked up for a
song at a tag sale years ago perhaps actually be a hidden treasure?
Did your grandma hand down to you an old, early American country
style ladder back chair, and have you wondered ever since if it
could be Shaker-made? Bring in your item, whether Shaker or not,
and this antiques expert will look it over, comment on it, and
informally appraise it for you. Who knows what you might find out!
Free to members or free with admission.
WORKSHOPS
Workshop: Shaker Oval Box
Making Basics
August 7 - 8 OR October 9-10, 9:00am - 4:00pm each day, maximum ten
students
Tuition: $200 HSV Members / $220 Non-Members
Make your own nest of four
boxes while learning to carve swallow tails, bend the box, and
install tops and bottoms with instructor Steve Grasselli. A great
weekend for woodworking beginners to get a good start, and for
experienced woodworkers to develop a new skill. No previous
experience required. Tools and materials provided.
Workshop: Classic New
England Side Table
August 28 – 29, 9:00am - 4:00pm each day, maximum three students
Tuition: $585 HSV Members / $650 Non-Members
A tapered-leg one-drawer
stand, this design was utilized throughout New England and fits well
in any home décor. This class offers the opportunity to learn two
skill sets: building the table and hand dovetailing the single
drawer. Your completed cherry side table will stand two-feet tall,
20 inches wide, and 16 inches deep. This course utilizes both
machine and hand tools.
About Hancock Shaker
Village
Hancock Shaker Village
celebrates its 50th anniversary as a living history museum and
center for the study of principled living in 2010. Situated on a
picturesque expanse of farm, field, and woodland in Pittsfield,
Mass., the fully restored Village includes 18 historic buildings,
heirloom medicinal and vegetable gardens, 22,000 examples of Shaker
furniture, crafts, tools, and clothes that depict daily life at the
Shakers’ City of Peace through its 220 years, as well as heritage
breed farm animals and spectacular hiking trails. There are daily
tours, craft and cooking demonstrations, lectures and workshops, and
a variety of activities for children and families, as well as a
Museum Store and Shaker-inspired cuisine at the Village Harvest
Café. The Discovery Room offers hands-on opportunities for kids of
all ages to try their hand at chair seat weaving, working at a loom,
trying on Shaker-style clothing, or milking a life-sized replica of
a cow. An interactive audio tour (free with admission) is available
in English, French, Italian, and German. For more information, call
800.817.1137 or go to
www.hancockshakervillage.org.
Hancock Shaker Village is located on Route 20 in Pittsfield, Mass.,
just west of the junction of Routes 20 and 41. For GPS purposes, the
Village is located at 34 Lebanon Mountain Rd., Hancock, Mass. 01237.
Or, enter 1843 W. Housatonic St., Pittsfield, Mass. 01201 then
proceed 1/2 mile further west on Rt. 20 to the parking lot.
Earthwork
Programs
SUMMER FUN EXTENDED! At
Home in the Woods Summer Camps
August 9-13 and August 16-20, Conway, MA, ages 7-12
(August 2-6 has a couple of openings)
Earthwork Programs campers will explore hands-on wilderness
activities and adventures, such as building natural shelters,
practicing fire by friction, tracking animals, learning about wild
edibles, knife safety, and so much more!
$225 per week, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Register online:
www.earthworkprograms.com Or call 413-522-0338.
At Home in the Woods Summer Camps
Earthwork Programs campers will explore hands-on
wilderness activities and adventures, such as building natural
shelters, practicing fire by friction, tracking animals, learning
about wild edibles, and so much more! Day camps start at the end
of June and continue through August and are held in Greenfield
(ages 7-12), S. Deerfield (ages 8-12), Conway (ages 8-teen--special
Leader in Training week) and Shutesbury (ages 5-12). $225 per week.
Check our Calendar for appropriate location and dates, and register
online:
www.earthworkprograms.com/blog/. Or call 413-522-0338.
OVERNIGHT Wilderness Skills
Workshop for Adults
Fire without matches? Plants
that are edible and/or heal? Build a shelter with all-natural
materials? Earthwork Programs offers this new immersion
experience--a two-day nature awareness program for adults. Sat,
August 21, to Sun, August 22, in the Hilltowns, Western MA.
• Fire by Friction
• Animal Tracking
• Knife Safety
• Wild Edible & Healing Plants
• Shelter Building
• Scout Invisibility
• Wilderness Survival
• Games & Fun
• More hands-on experiences!!
$250-$350 sliding scale (food will be provided; BYOS (Bring/Build
Your Own Shelter)). For details, call 413-522-0338 or visit
www.earthworkprograms.com. Pre-registration is required.
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THEATRE CAMP OPENINGS STILL AVAILABLE
The
Westfield Theatre Group’s 17th Annual Summer Theatre Camp still has
openings for its Second and Third Sessions. The second begins
Monday, July 19 and the third and final session begins on
Monday, August 2, 2010. Each session has a morning group for
campers aged 8-12 and an afternoon group for campers aged 13-19.
Campers learn the basics of acting on stage, learning basic stage
movement, character development, auditioning basics and
improvisations. Acting in and working on plays has proven to
increase a young person’s self-confidence, self-expression and gives
the camper a positive experience in public speaking. Campers with
reading problems and speech problems also benefit from the
experience. The campers will perform a production that is open to
the public to practice what they have learned at the end of each
session.
Larry Andersen, M.Ed., a teacher for more than thirty years, has
been the Camp’s director for all seventeen years. He is a drama
coach, an award winning designer and director of the Westfield
Theatre Group’s acclaimed productions of “Godspell,” “Sound of
Music” and “Barefoot in the Park.” Mr. Andersen has assisted in
casting movies filmed in the local area. Former campers have
appeared in the Disney movie “Cider House Rules” as well as other
movies and one former camper appeared on Broadway in “Cats.”
The Co-Director of the Summer Theatre Camp is Tristan Andersen.
Tristan was one of the Summer Theatre Camp's first campers. Tristan
graduated out of the camp and then acted as Assistant Director for 4
years before being named as Co-Director in 2008. Tristan is a 2007
graduate of Westfield State College and is employed as a substitute
teacher.
The Westfield Theatre Group is a department of the Westfield Woman’s
Club, a non-profit corporation. The Westfield Theatre Group has been
presenting quality live theatre performances for over 70 years,
making it one of the oldest community theaters in the nation.
The Summer Theatre Camp is held at the Westfield Woman’s Club
building at 28 Court Street in Westfield and is easily accessible by
PVTA bus. Tuition is $150, with discounts available for families and
groups. Tuition assistance is also available. Registration forms can
be obtained by calling 413-214-1926, by emailing WTG Theatre
Camp@aol.com or by downloading from our website
www.westfieldtheatregroup.com.
Berkshire Community Radio Presents Award-winning Investigative
Journalist Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now! at Monument Mountain
Regional High School
Proceeds to Benefit WBCR-LP,
97.7 FM
Berkshire Community Radio will
present award-winning investigative journalist Amy Goodman on
Friday, July 16 at 7:30 pm at Monument Mountain Regional High
School (600 Stockbridge Rd., Great Barrington). Ms. Goodman will
speak about her recent visits to Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico in a
talk titled “The Role of Independent Media in Promoting Social
Justice,” followed by a book signing. Proceeds from the event will
benefit WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM, the volunteer-based, noncommercial,
community radio station in the town of Great Barrington, Mass.
Tickets are $20 (talk and book signing) and $100 (includes reception
with Ms. Goodman, front row seats during the talk, and a copy of her
newest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier). Tickets are available
through
www.berkshireradio.org, at Fuel Coffee Shop (286 Main St., Great
Barrington), and at the door.
Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, syndicated
columnist, author, and the host of Democracy Now! airing on more
than 850 public television/radio stations worldwide. She is the
first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known
as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” for “developing an innovative model
of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to
millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by
the mainstream media.” London newspaper, The Independent, named Amy
Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration”; and political blog
PULSE placed Goodman at the top of its “20 Top Global Media
Figures.”
Ms. Goodman is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. Her
latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of
independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. She
co-authored the first three bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness
(2008), Static (2006), and The Exception to the Rulers (2004), with
her brother, journalist David Goodman. She writes a weekly column
(also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for
which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for
Social Justice Reporting. For more information about Amy Goodman and
Democracy Now!, please visit
www.democracynow.org.
Founded in 2004, WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM is a volunteer-operated and
listener-supported noncommercial community broadcast and Internet
radio station in the town of Great Barrington, Mass. Each week, WBCR-LP
broadcasts over 90 locally-produced or sponsored radio programs;
with programmers ranging from elementary school students to
retirees; with topics including national and local community issues,
astrology, skate-boarding, French cooking, women's issues, and water
preservation and protection; and with live and recorded music
ranging from classical to Italian folk, jazz to heavy metal. In
addition, dozens of community volunteers perform the myriad of tasks
required to maintain the studios and keep the station running. For
more information about the station, see
www.berkshireradio.org.
Playwrights Philip Gerson and Kate Wenner to Workshop New Plays
Berkshire Playwrights Lab will
present staged reading workshop productions of Philip Gerson’s Eyes
Forward directed by Bob Jaffe and
of Kate Wenner’s Make Sure It's Me directed by Joe Cacaci (Wednesday,
June 30 at 8pm) at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Admission
is free. For reservations, call 413.528.0100 or visit the Mahaiwe
Box Office (14 Castle Street in Great Barrington, Mass.).
Playwright Philip Gerson’s work for theater includes productions at
the Colony Theatre in Los Angeles, Musical Theatre Works in New
York, The New York International Fringe Festival, and Gayfest NYC.
Among the many television shows he has written for are two of the
most successful series in TV history – Murder, She Wrote (for which
he was story editor) and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (for which he was
co-executive producer). He divides his time between New York and Los
Angeles.
In Gerson's new play, Eyes Forward, a valuable painting stolen by
the Nazis during WWII forms the background for two extraordinary
love stories in two different countries, seven decades apart. A
story of the need for human connection in the present and to the
past, it is about love and reconciliation and the healing power of
art. The cast of this staged reading workshop production includes
Ylfa Edelstein, Chris Stack, and three other actors TBA.
Playwright Kate Wenner spent fourteen years as an award-winning
producer for ABC's 20/20. She is the author of the novels Dancing
with Einstein and Setting Fires and a memoir, Shamba Letu: An
American Girl's Adventures in Africa. She lives in New York City and
the Berkshires. Her ten-minute play Einstein and Freud in Heaven
was featured in the Ten-Minutes Plays in the Berkshires Festival.
Wenner’s new play, Make Sure It's Me, is set in a university brain
trauma clinic, where five vets, injured in IED (improvised explosive
device) blasts in Iraq, confront the truth that their lives will
never be the same again. Shocked by the level of brain damage
sustained by these vets and by the Pentagon's continuing refusal to
test for this injury, Josephine Fitch, the passionate and
tough-minded clinic director, makes the fateful decision to expose
what she believes will turn out to be the Agent Orange of the Iraq
War. The ten-member cast of this staged reading workshop production
is TBA.
About Berkshire Playwrights
Lab
Founded in 2007 by theater
professionals Joe Cacaci, Jim Frangione, Bob Jaffe, and Matthew
Penn, Berkshire Playwrights Lab is dedicated to encouraging,
developing, and presenting new plays. Currently, through readings,
and, in the future, through workshops, and fully-staged productions,
the Lab provides emerging and established writers with a
professional and creative environment, while offering audiences the
unique and provocative opportunity to share in the dramatic
evolution of premiere works. For more information, see
www.berkshireplaywrightslab.org.
Note: Press is welcome to attend Berkshire Playwrights Lab Free
Staged Reading Series events, but not to review, as the plays
presented are works in progress.
Trustees of
Reservations Events
Saturday Sustainability
Workshops
Land of Providence Reservation, Main St., Holyoke
Trustees members $5,
non-members $10. Spaces are limited; Call The Trustees
of Reservations at 413 532-1631 x13 or email
pvregion@ttor.org to reserve a spot. Check
www.thretrustees.org for full workshop schedule.
Saturday, July 17 | 1 PM -
3 PM
Composting at Home
Composting is a simple way to
put your food scraps to good use. Cut down on the trash you are
hauling to the dump each day and increase the health and vibrancy of
your gardens. This is an introductory session for first-time
composters.
Meditation and Yoga
Sundays | 9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Land of Providence Reservation, Main St., Holyoke
Come for a peaceful class
overlooking the Connecticut River. This is a gentle yoga session
appropriate for beginners. Please bring a yoga mat and wear
comfortable clothing. Meets every Sunday through the summer. Rain
cancels. Trustees members and Holyoke Residents $5, non-members $10.
Call the Trustees of Reservations at 413-532-1631 x13 or email
pvregion@ttor.org for information.
Land of Providence Tours
Saturdays (June through October, and by appointment) | 11 AM
Land of Providence Reservation, Main St., Holyoke
Take a guided exploration of
The Trustees of Reservations’ new property in Holyoke, which
features community gardens, river views, and walking trails. $2
donation per person welcome. Call The Trustees of Reservations at
413 532-1631 x13 or email
pvregion@ttor.org to register or for more information.
Summer Stewardship:
Footprint Workday
Sunday, July 24 | 1 PM - 3 PM
Dinosaur Footprints Reservation, Holyoke
Spend this mid summer
afternoon along the bank of the Connecticut River and the dinosaur
track ways, pitching in to care for the property. A variety of
tasks possible, depending on the weather and your interest. Please
dress in long-pants, a work shirt and sturdy shoes. Bring gloves
and a water bottle if you have them. FREE. Call the Trustees of
Reservations at 413-532-1631 x13 or email
pvregion@ttor.org to register or for more information.
About the Trustees of
Reservations in the Pioneer Valley
Since 2001, The Trustees have
been building a stronger conservation presence in the Pioneer Valley
region with educational and grassroots community outreach programs
and the pursuit of significant land conservation opportunities.
Currently, The Trustees own and manage 13 spectacular properties in
the region. These include Notchview, the Bryant Homestead, Dinosaur
Footprints, Chapel Brook, Bear Swamp, Chesterfield Gorge, Petticoat
Hill, Glendale Falls, Little Tom Mountain (to open 2012) and Peaked
Mountain. Recent acquisitions which will open to the public in the
future include the Bullitt Reservation, Mt. Warner Reservation, and
Land of Providence. The Trustees locally operate the Highland
Communities Initiative (HCI), a program created to protect the
natural and cultural character of 38 rural hilltowns located between
the Connecticut and Housatonic Rivers. To find out more about HCI,
visit
www.highlandcommunities.org. For more information on becoming a
Trustees member, donor and/or volunteer or to reach The Trustees of
Reservations Pioneer Valley regional office, please call
413.532.1631.
The Trustees of Reservations
are 100,000 people like you, who love the outdoors and the
distinctive charms of New England, and believe in celebrating and
protecting them for current and future generations. Founded by open
space visionary, Charles Eliot in 1891, The Trustees “hold in trust”
and care for special places throughout the Commonwealth called
"reservations.”
A member-, donor-, volunteer-,
and endowment-supported organization, The Trustees (and its
affiliate, Boston Natural Areas Network) own and care for more than
100 spectacular reservations and 34 community gardens located on
25,000 acres in 73 communities throughout Massachusetts. From
working farms and historic homesteads, several of which are National
Historic Landmarks, to formal and community gardens, barrier
beaches, open meadows, woodland trails, mountain vistas, a Gold LEED-certified
green building, and a popular campground, all reservations are open
for the public to enjoy.
The Trustees offer hundreds of
programs and activities throughout the year, most of which are
free-of-charge or discounted for members. In addition, The Trustees
are a leader in the conservation movement and serve as a model for
other land trusts nationally and internationally. Working with
communities and conservation partners around the state in addressing
important conservation issues and efforts, The Trustees hold
conservation restrictions on more than 16,000 acres of privately
owned land and have worked with partners around the state to assist
in the protection of an additional 16,000 acres.
As land is being developed and
open space is being fragmented at a rapid pace around the state,
time is running out to save the best of Massachusetts’ landscapes
and landmarks. To find out how you can protect a special place in
your community, become a partner, request a speaker, and/or become a
Trustee through your volunteer, donor, or membership contributions,
please call 781.784.0567, visit
www.thetrustees.org, or email
membership@ttor.org. We are all Trustees.
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