The state Senate is planning to commission what Dennis Powell, the president of the NAACP Berkshires, considers “the most significant bust in its history.” The bust will honor Elizabeth Freeman, whose ...
Her story Catherine Sedgwick, a well-known writer of the time, regarded Mum Bett as a "second mother," in place of her own mother, who was unable to care for the Sedgwicks' 10 children. She was known ...
A Berkshire County icon is one of two women to be honored with a bust in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber for the first time in its history. When it comes to pomp and circumstance, the Massachusetts ...
The story of an enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation had been pushed to the fringes of history. A group of civic leaders, ...
The Massachusetts State House boasts one of the oldest public art collections in the country. Yet of its more than 300 works, only about 20 depict images of women. That’s one reason state Senate ...
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