Lamson and Goodnow to sell historic factory complex

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Vol. III No. 1 • Issue No. 51
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Shelburne chief
DeJackome resigns
By Don Stewart
don@sfindependent.net
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SHELBURNE—Shelburne police chief, Mark DeJackome, 52,
has announced his resignation to
the board of selectmen in order
to take on full-time duties as
assistant director of security at
the Holyoke Mall. DeJackome’s
resignation, effective Aug. 25,
follows his resignation from an
administrative post in the town
of Charlemont in late April.
“I haven’t put it in writing yet,
but I’m retiring...It’s just time to
move on,” DeJackome said during
a phone interview on July 18. “I
was going to retire at the age of
55, but this [job opening] came
up real quick. It’s going to be difcontinued on page 5
July 20–August 2, 2006
Lamson and Goodnow
to sell historic factory complex
Cutlery firm needs modern quarters, leaving old site
available — possibly for retail, office, or living space
By Jeff Potter
jeff@sfindependent.net
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Mark DeJackome
of the
Repairs near completion
for Arthur Smith Bridge
Historic covered ‘Burr arch’ bridge
is the last of its kind in Massachusetts
By Laura Rodley
laura@sfindependent.net
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COLRAIN—Massachusetts
has three 19th-century covered
wooden bridges: the Arthur A.
Smith covered bridge in Colrain,
the Burkeville covered bridge in
Conway, and Gilbertville covered
bridge in Ware. Until 1994, a
fourth, the Old Sheffield covered bridge, existed, but it was
destroyed in an arson fire.
The Arthur A. Smith covered
bridge is the last surviving Burr
arch truss covered bridge in
Massachusetts. Built in 1870 by
an unknown builder, the bridge
is 99 feet long, with a span of 97
feet. The Burr arch is just that,
an arch-shaped truss, or ceiling
support.
“The Burr arches design is
used today,” said Basil Hoffman,
a member of Colrain’s Bridge
$1.00
Committee and a resident since
1942 “If you stop and look at any
bridge, it is the same basic idea,
[although] not made of wood. It
was invented by someone named
Burr. Sometime in the ’20s, the
Burr arches were put in [the
Arthur Smith Bridge.]”
This was to make the bridge
stronger to hold the weight of
the apples being brought to the
cider mill in Foundry Village, one
of the villages of Colrain, and
cider being shipped out. Produce
and milk deliveries also traveled
across the bridge, carried by local
farmers.
“A milk trolley used to pick up
milk out on 112 from a platform,”
said Hoffman. According to him,
when the bridge was first built it
was across the Fox Brook in Shattucksville. Then it was moved up
to Lyonsville, and set across the
continued on page 6
The Lamson and Goodnow complex from the roof of McCusker’s Market. At left is Lamson and Goodnow’s
woodshop. The red building in the foreground is the company’s factory outlet store. Its metal press
and laser building is at right.
SHELBURNE FALLS—In what
company officials and its real
estate agent have described as
an ongoing process that will put
their historic property to better
use, Lamson and Goodnow Manufacturing Co. has put its 15-acre
Conway Street manufacturing
facility up for sale.
The company, which has crafted knives and other forged steel
tools, utensils, instruments and
artillery since the pre-Civil War
era, has employed thousands
of West County citizens in that
location during the past 155
years. Lamson’s manufacturing
will continue as usual, and Kurt
Zanner, Lamson’s president and
chief operating officer, assured
employees that their jobs would
be safe.
Carol Bolduc of Coldwell Banker Upton-Massamont Realtors,
the listing agent for the property,
described the complex, with its
maze of multi-story, interconnected buildings and elevated
passageways, as “functionally obsolete” for what Lamson needs.
Bolduc said Lamson is seeking a buyer, or buyers, who can
find new uses for the space that
would be more appropriate than
manufacturing and who can
use and preserve the historic
structures, some of which are
languishing and in various states
of disrepair.
The property went on the market July 14 at an asking price of
continued on page 5
Charlemont woodworker
releases ‘the soul of the tree’
By Don Stewart
don@sfindependent.net
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CHARLEMONT—Tom Kuklinski’s unique woodwork can be
found in executive boardrooms
on Fifth Avenue as well as in
homes throughout the country.
His exclusive heirloom series of
colonial furniture is available at
Historic Deerfield, Inc., while
modern pieces can be viewed at
upscale gallery showrooms.
Kuklinski’s intricate approach
to woodworking is not simply of
museum quality. That’s where
it can also be found. His exclusive series of Colonial furniture is available at Historic
Deerfield Inc., and, by this fall,
more modern pieces can be
viewed at galleries as close as
Buckland’s Salmon Falls Artisans
Showroom.
The Charlemont resident be-
gan a career in the trades some
25 years ago as a house builder. In
time a sideline of furniture repair
wedged into more of his hours,
providing a calling in the more
sublime pursuit of restoration.
Today, from a well equipped,
brightly lit workshop at Charlemont’s Hall Tavern Farm, Kuklinski Woodworking produces
furniture ranging from replications of colonial-era ornamental
boxes to 17-foot chestnut and
pine conference tables that could
probably support the weight of an
elephant as well as the stresses
of a corporate meltdown.
The word-of-mouth demand
for the skilled hands of this
48-year-old provides him with
travel to worksites throughout
the country.
But for a career sea change, all of
this may have never happened.
continued on page 10
Two vacant storage buildings line up in succession next to the company’s manufacturing and assembly building, the first one built after
the company’s move from Shelburne in 1850.
Falls couple accomplish ‘the ultimate’
World Frisbee tournament will take place at Devens
By Nate Walsh
nate@sfindependent.net
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SHELBURNE FALLS—Local residents Linda and Robert Sidorsky are helping to
bring the 7th Biennial World
Flying Disc Federation World
Junior Ultimate Championships for Ultimate Frisbee to
Massachusetts.
The Ultimate Frisbee tournament will draw the best teams
of athletes under the age of
19 from countries around the
world. Twelve teams with
players from 15 countries will
come together in Devens, Mass.
in tournament action to declare the best Ultimate Frisbee
team in the world. The event
will run from Sunday, August
13 through Friday, August 18.
Countries expecting to enter
teams include Great Britain,
Finland, Sweden, Australia,
Colombia, Israel, Canada and
the United States.
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“I’m very excited,” said Shelburne Falls resident Linda
Sidorsky, the tournament director. “A tremendous amount of
work went into it.”
Sidorsky said she got the
idea to bring the tournament to
the area after her son, Misha,
played for the U.S. Junior Ultimate Team when it went to the
last championship tournament
in Finland in 2004. While there,
she was introduced to the head
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Caution in hot weatherr
Summer fun at the Rec celebrates 10 years
By Laura Rodley
laura@sfindependent.net
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BUCKLAND—Jeff and Mary
Johansmeyer have been running
the Mohawk Summer Recreation
Program at the Buckland Recreation Area for 10 years.
“It’s sponsored by the PTO,”
said Jeff Johansmeyer. “It’s a
nonprofit sort of thing, we just
cover our costs.”
This year the camp runs from
July 3 to August 11.
“Something we do different
from other camps is we have kids
for one week, or Tuesday and
Thursday, whatever their parent
needs,” he said. “That’s why we
have daily rates.”
The rates are $25/day for regular campers. Junior staff members pay $10/day for the 9:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m. day camp.
“We offer pre- and closed-camp
staff supervision,” said Johansmeyer, meaning that parents can
drop children off with supervision before or after regular camp
hours if necessary.
“Regular campers are from
grades one through 5. Once they
graduate 6th grade, the regular
campers can become junior
staff,” Johansmeyer said. “We are
training the staff of kids who may
want to become counselors when
they become 16. They rotate in
Mohawk strategic
planning panel to meet
BUCKLAND—The next
meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee will be held
on Wednesday, July 26 in the
Mohawk Trail Regional High
School.
The proposed agenda includes
an open session from 7-8 p.m.
of strategy brainstorming led
by a facilitator and from 8-8:30
p.m., the full committee will
prioritize the list and charge
subcommittees.
Chairpersons include Jon
Wyman, education; Dave Purington, budget; Bob Aeschback,
transportation and Pam Porter,
building use.
three jobs.”
Those jobs include projects
on park sites, such as cleaning
winter debris and raking grass,
or projects for the school district,
such as collating binders for incoming teachers at the Mohawk
Trail Regional School District
administration building. Junior
counselors also serve as role
models to the younger campers,
which number 50-60 daily to a
staff of 14. Staff includes local
high school and college students,
the Johansmeyers and a camp
nurse.
Sue Mitchell, the Colrain Central School’s nurse, and Tim Willis
fill the camp nurse position on
alternating days.
“We follow state Department
of Public Health guidelines,”
Johansmeyer said. “We are inspected annually.”
The camp has a ratio of 1 staff
to 5 kindergarten-age campers and 1 to 10 ratio for older
campers.
Campers participate in arts
and crafts, swimming and group
age-appropriate games. On rainy
days they work on puzzles and
play other games.
“We have a science teacher/
nature teacher on a 21st Century
grant,” said Johansmeyer, adding
that the camp works with the
Buckland Recreation facility to
offer swimming lessons.
“I love working here,” said
counselor Holly Braziel. “It’s my
first year. I came to camp here
when I was in kindergarten and
first grade.”
“It’s good,” said camper Emily
Giguere.
“I think it’s educational,”
added camper Lucas Obert.
Swimming passes at the Buckland Recreation Area pool are
$3/weekdays and $5/weekends.
The pool is open from 12-8 p.m.
weekdays and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. on
weekends. A day pass of $10 for
a family of five or more is also
available.
For more information call the
Johansmeyers at the Mohawk
Summer Recreation Program at
(413) 625-9555. The Buckland
Recreation Area can also be reached
at that number.
Liz Prasol fills in as swimming teacher for the Buckland Recreation
Area Pool. She is teaching Riley Duprey.
Library gala due
COLRAIN—The Friends of the
Griswold Memorial Library are
celebrating the group’s first anniversary and members want to
say “thank you, thank you, thank
you” to Colrain and the surrounding community with a gala party
at the library on Wednesday, Aug.
2 from 4-7 p.m.
Iced tea, lemonade, West County Cider, Bart’s and Snow’s ice
cream and other delicious treats
Pat Beck, D.C.
Why settle for less than
the life you deserve?
FMC offers cholesterol
screenings
GREENFIELD—Franklin
Medical Center will hold a cardiac-risk cholesterol screening on
Wednesday, Aug. 9, from 8:30- 10
a.m. in Conference Room A.
Participants must fast for 12
hours prior to being screened.
Test results will be forwarded to
participants and their primary
care providers. The cost is for the
screening is $7; pre-registration is
required. To register, please call
the Professionals at 413-773-8557
or 1-800-377-HEALTH.
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will be served. The Coleraine
Cloggers will perform and Joe
Kurland and Peggy Davis will
play Yiddish folk music.
The party, with prizes for
children, is free and open to the
public, rain or shine. The group
is looking for volunteers to help
make iced tea, lemonade and
baked goods ahead of time, for
ice cream servers at the party
and for help setting up chairs and
tents and breaking it down before
and after the gala. Volunteer
party hosts to be present in shifts
of any time from 4-7 p.m. are also
welcome. To volunteer call Judith Roberts at (413) 624-5534.
ASHFIELD—With extremely
hot weather predicted over the
summer months, the Ashfield Office of Emergency Management is
advising residents to be cautious
in the expected extreme heat and
is offering some tips to help keep
cool and safe.
“There are measures that can
be taken to reduce heat-related
problems, especially for the elderly, the very young and people
with respiratory problems, who
are more susceptible to the effects of high temperatures and
humidity,” said Ashfield Emergency Management Director
Steve Girard. Residents with
questions or comments about
heat-related problems may call
the office at (413) 628-4441 for
further assistance.
Beating the heat safety tips
are:
• Slow down, avoid strenuous
activity. Don’t try to do too much
on hot days.
• Wear lightweight, loose-fitting, light-colored clothing that
reflects heat and sun.
• Protect your face with a widebrimmed hat.
• Drink plenty of water often.
• Limit intake of alcoholic
beverages.
• Eat well-balanced, light, regular meals.
• S t ay i n d o o rs a s mu ch a s
possible.
• Use sunscreen lotion with
a high SPF (Sun Protection
Factor).
• Plan daily events that include
air-conditioning, swimming
and resting in shady areas if
possible.
• Never leave children or pets
alone in a closed vehicle.
• Check on family, friends and
neighbors more frequently during extreme heat.
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SHELBURNE—School officials
say that the Buckland-Shelburne
Elementary Preschool might have
an opening for children from the
towns of Buckland, Shelburne,
Heath and Colrain.
Applications will be accepted
for children who are not already
in a public or private program.
Children must be three years
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program located at the elementary school. Interested families
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Hawley sets
special town
meeting
HAWLEY—Voters are asked
to attend a special town meeting
on Tuesday, Aug. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in
town office to vote on whether
or not to buy a grader for the
highway department.
Administrative Assistant Virginia Gabert notes that this will
be a “significant” expense for the
town, and may require a future
ballot box debt exclusion vote,
thus adding the expense to the
tax rate only for the duration of
the loan to buy the equipment.
The town clerk will be available to register those wishing to
vote at this meeting on Wednesday, July 19 from 2-5 p.m. and 7-8
p.m.
Mohawk central office
to move to middle school
BUCKLAND—The Mohawk
Trail Regional School District’s
central office is scheduled to
move from its present location
to the new location in the middle
school at Mohawk on July 27 and
July 28.
To facilitate the move the office will be closed on these two
days.
Telephones will not be operational for a time during the move.
School officials apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause
and say that they look forward
to serving the district from the
new location starting July 31.
Telephone numbers and the office mailing address will remain
the same.
Calling all cooks
HAWLEY—The deadline for
entering the Pudding Hollow
Pudding Contest is Tuesday, Aug.
1. This fundraiser for the Sons &
Daughters of Hawley building
project features fabulous prizes,
a good cause and lots of fun.
All original recipes for dishes
called “pudding” are eligible,
and the $10 entry fee is tax deductible. If you have questions,
please call Tinky at (413) 3394747 or e-mail tinky@merrylion.
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an entry form and official contact
rules, please visit the contest Web
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Frisbee
Charlemont’s Hometown Fair
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of the World Flying Disc Federation who suggested that she put
in a bid for the United States to
host the next tournament. She
helped form the New England
Ultimate Alliance to put together
the necessary proposals, which
included everything that goes
into hosting a world championship tournament—from equipment and playing fields to hotel
accommodations and meals.
Her husband, Robert, has also
been active in the endeavor.
He is the co-founder of the New
England Prep School Ultimate
League and was a teacher and
coach at Northfield Mount Hermon School, in Northfield for
seven years. Tina Booth, founder
of the Amherst Regional High
School team, National Ultimate
Training Camp and the coach
for the U.S. open junior team,
and Jim Pistrang, coach of the
Amherst Middle School team,
and many other New England
Ultimate Frisbee enthusiasts
have also been helping.
The cost to get the teams into
the competition is expensive, but
Sidorsky said that fundraising
efforts have been taking place
to help bring teams in from
countries where funds are hard
to come by. She said that they
have been trying to obtain grants
and working with team leaders in
four countries, and it looks as if
two of those teams will be able
to make it to the tournament.
“To see these kids get here will
be very exciting,” said Sidorsky.
“When it comes to the culmination and I actually see them out
on the field, it will feel great. It
will all have been worth it.”
The nature of the tournament
stresses fair play and respect, as
Ultimate Frisbee games are selfofficiating. The cultural nature
of a world championship will be
highlighted as players from different teams eat together, live
together and share their heritage
when teams make short presentations each night.
According to the WJUC Web
site, the international junior competition has been taking place
in Europe since 1983. Starting
in 1984 tournaments were held
every other year. The first junior
team from the United States
entered the competition in 1988
and the first junior tournament
held in the country was in Blaine,
Minn., in 1998.
Sidorsky said that the tryouts
to make the team are difficult.
Two take place here in the U.S.—
one in the east and one in the
west—which then allow a player
to try out for the team going to
the tournament. She said that
six players from Amherst have
made it to the team.
Massachusetts has a strong
history with the sport of Ultimate
Frisbee, as one of the sport’s
founders, film producer Joel
Silver learned a way of playing
frisbee from Amherst College stu-
dent Jared Kass while attending
a summer session at Northfield
Mount Hermon in 1968.
When Silver got back home to
Maplewood, N.J., he developed
the game he picked up into
the sport now simply known as
“Ultimate.” Some people have
dropped the word “Frisbee” from
the title as it is a trademarked
term for the disc made by the
Wham-O company and not all
players use their disc. Kass has
been invited to speak at this
year’s junior tournament.
The sport is played on a rectangular field 70 yards long and
40 yards wide. The end zones
are 25 yards deep. Seven players
from each team line up on their
own end zone line and the team
on defense throws or “pulls” the
disc to the other team. Players
pass the disc to their teammates
to move it down the field, as you
are not allowed to run when you
have the disc. A point is scored
when a player makes a catch
in the other team’s end zone.
When a pass is not completed or
dropped, the other team takes
control of the disc. There is no
contact and players call their own
fouls and line calls and settle
their own disputes, as according
to the WJUC Web site, respect
is held in a higher regard than
competition.
For more information visit the
tournament’s Web site at www.
wjuc2006.org.
Firefighters’ barbecue
tickets on sale
PLAINFIELD—The Plainfield
Volunteer Firefighter’s Association will hold its annual chicken
barbecue on Sunday, Sept. 3.
Tickets are now on sale from any
firefighter or emergency medical
technician. Advance purchase is
recommended as just 600 meals
will be served.
As in the past, the meal will
include half a barbecued chicken,
Plainfield-grown baked potato,
local corn on the cob, homemade
cole slaw, Hebert’s dinner roll,
watermelon and a beverage.
Tickets are $7/person; $5.50 for
children under 12.
The annual firefighters’ barbecue is Plainfield’s largest annual
event and includes many other
activities besides food—including the annual library book sale,
Sanderson Academy PTO bake
sale, Artsfeast (a gathering of
local arts and crafts), the annual
firefighter’s silent auction, games
for kids including basketball and
the annual rope tug at the end of
the barbecue.
Firefighter’s apparatus and
equipment will be on display. For
more information call Fire Chief
David Alvord at (413) 634-5470.
Yankee
Doodle
Days
2006
Fairgrounds Open – Food, Crafts, Vendors Open
+RIDES BY BOWDOIN AMUSEMENTS
+ROSIE’S RACING PIGS (check board for times)
Music & Dancing – “SIERRA PEARL”
5:30 p.m. Women’s Club Ham & Bean Supper
6:30 p.m. Cruise Night – Classic Car Exhibition
7 p.m. +Music & Dancing till 9:30 p.m.- “SHAKIN’ ALL OVER’
Square and Round Dancing till closing
in the Exhibition Hall with music by The Country Friendship
Band and caller Bob Livingston
8:30 p.m. Cruise Lap (rain date 7-22)
10 p.m. + SPECTACULAR FIREWORKS + Air and Ground
Shaking Displays by Skyfire Productions. Pre-show rides in
Monster Truck BIG DADDY By Skyfire Productions & Dillon
Chevrolet of Greenfield (rain date 7-22)
5 p.m.
11 p.m.
Saturday, July 22
8 a.m.
10 a.m.
11 a.m.
Fairgrounds Open
Food, Crafts, Vendors Open
+Petting Zoo (Crimson Acres)
+Show Rabbits (Shirley Tombs)
+Lupa Zoo - Educational Shows
+“Windows to Our Past” Vendors / Exhibition Hall
+Native American Storytelling & Exhibit
+ PoppyTown Puppets & Music (check board for times)
RIDES BY BOWDOIN AMUSEMENTS
+Vic and Sticks (Vaudeville Musical Storytelling)
+ OX DRAW
+ Cross Cut Saw Demo + Portable Saw Mill (All Afternoon)
+ Yankee Doodle Day Stamp Cancellation
Sunday, July 23
Fairgrounds Open
9 a.m. Pancake Breakfast by the Charlemont Inn
9:30 a.m. Church Service
10 a.m. Food, Crafts, Vendors Open
+HORSE DRAW
+GYMKHANA
+“Windows to Our Past” Vendors / Exhibition Hall
+Olde Fashion “Quilting Bee” / Exhibition Hall
+Basil Dorsey’s Underground Railroad Quilt
+Taylor’s Fort Excavation Exhibit / Exhibition Hall
PoppyTown Puppets & Music (check board for times)
Petting Zoo (Crimson Acres)
Lupa Zoo – Educational Shows
Coleraine City Cloggers
8 a.m.
T-Bone (sponsored in part by the Local Cultural Council)
12 p.m. +RIDES BY BOWDOIN AMUSEMENTS +
+PARADE “WINDOWS TO OUR PAST” +
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E S S AY
■ By B.J. Roche
My chickens,
myself?
Or, can a woman love her chickens too much?
W
What is best about a chicken
at rest is the sound--so soothing
it should be bottled: old hens
drifting off to sleep emit a lowlevel purr, like Marge Simpson
on Xanax.
ROWE
HERE’D YOU GO
— out for a walk?”
my husband asked
as I stepped into the kitchen
just after dark recently.
“No, I was just out with the
birds,” I said. He shot me a
look, and I had to take stock
of who I was and where our
relationship was heading. As we
embarked upon our third year
raising a small backyard flock
of chickens, what began as an
exercise in “Green Acres” chic
has given way to a concern:
Have I become a woman who
loves her chickens too much?
Over the summer I had
gotten got into the habit of
pouring myself a vodka and
tonic, going out to the yard, and
sitting in a plastic chair next to
the coop while our small collection of chickens settled in for
the evening.
Sometimes I’d read the
paper, but mostly I’d watch.
I loved to observe, as the
younger flock of Wyandottes
and Araucanas jockeyed for the
best position on the outdoor
roost. The way the older hens
would always take the same
spot on the right side of the
coop and peck at each other as
they scootched their way into a
sleeping position.
Sunshine, the hulking Buff
Orpington rooster, would strut
back and forth, choose his spot
from below, then hop up onto
the roost and nestle in between
the ladies, two on one side, one
on the other, like Hugh Hefner
club-sandwiched into a set of
bodacious triplets.
Wanderer, the black and
white Barred Rock hen, is always the first to doze off, crooking her neck down into her
torso, her heavy eyelids lazing
shut while the younger birds
are still trawling the food bin.
WHEN WE FIRST GOT our chickens a few years ago, we never
expected that they would replace the television set. Or the
dog. Or the therapist. If this
makes me a kook, I take solace
from the fact that I’m in good
company. It’s always a pleasure
to meet a chicken person, and
there are hundreds of them,
all over New England, raising small backyard flocks of a
dozen, maybe more, chickens.
It’s not always a copasetic
situation; the village of West
Stockbridge was roiled a
while back over the issue of
whether a woman could keep
chickens -- more specifically, a
rooster -- in densely populated
neighborhoods.
And those who don’t raise
chickens often live vicariously through those who do.
Carpenter Tony Cordray says
the webcam he put up in his
chicken yard in West Tisbury on
Martha’s Vineyard has drawn
about 70,000 hits since he went
online on April 1, 2001.
“They’re fun to watch,” he
says. “The majority of the
people are in offices and like
to watch while they’re working.
They find it relaxing.”
One particular fan club developed at the corporate offices
of Dunkin’ Donuts, Cordray
says. “The whole office began
to watch. They sent me e-mails
and free coffee. It sounded like
they had the thing up on a big
screen in the office.”
New York Times readers are
familiar with Bill Grimes’s My
Fine Feathered Friend, his book
about the chicken who showed
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up one day in his Queens
backyard. Grimes’s work is but
one piece of a growing body of
chicken lit.
In his book, Living With
Chickens, Vershire, Vt. author
Jay Rossier writes almost as
much about the metaphysical value of chicken ownership as he does nuts-and-bolts
information.
British author Martin Gurdon, in his droll poultry-memoir, Hen and the Art of Chicken
Maintenance: Reflections on
Raising Chickens, sums things
up nicely: “Having a few hens
at the bottom of the garden
was supposed to be a bit of fun,
a mild distraction, but it was
fast becoming a life-changing
experience.”
Indeed, few things are more
amusing than watching a
chicken eat a strand of leftover
spaghetti cadged from the
compost pile. I love to watch
them take their dust baths in
the loose dirt under the shed,
scratch through the leaves
in the woods, squabble over
nothing. The birds are good
company when I’m gardening,
following around as I loosen
the dirt, nipping the Japanese
beetles I cull off the roses right
out of my hand.
OF COURSE, LIFE WITH CHICKENS
is not all custards and meringues, particularly around the
yard. Chickens are diggers, and
they’ll leave their holes where
you least expect them.
To a chicken, a fence is not a
boundary; it’s more of an idea,
a mere suggestion that may be
taken or left alone. If they’re
inside, they want out. If they’re
out -- well, you get the picture.
But the rewards outweigh the
costs. Our efforts to round them
up into the coop every evening
inspired money-making idea:
a video game with chickens.
(Memo to Sega: Call me!)
And when my neighbor
needed three tail feathers from
the tail of a live rooster for a
feng-shui ceremony to get rid
of her migraines, you know who
she called.
Tony Cordray says he’s seen
an uptick in links from Arab
websites -- he doesn’t know who
they are, because he can’t read
their names. But when he decorated the site for Christmas, he
kept it non-denominational, out
of respect for his birds’ fans in
the Middle East.
Okay, maybe I am overly
obsessed with my birds. But if
chickens can help connect us
to Internet users in the Arab
world, why not here at home?
This winter we’ll be sitting
in Blue-State Massachusetts,
thumbing through the Murray
McMurray Hatchery catalogue
in Red-State Iowa, trying to
decide: more Araucanas and
Wyandottes or Mottled Houdans? Buff Brahmas or Black
Langshans?
Politics and borders may
separate us, but chickens can
bring us together.
Even if they don’t, as Woody
Allen might say, we all need the
eggs.
4
When not watching her chickens,
B.J. Roche works as a freelance
journalist and lecturer in the
journalism department at the
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. She can be found on the
Web at www.bjroche.com.
HISTORICAL ESSAY
■ By Washington Gladden
The view from the train
NORTH ADAMS
Greenfield
Railroad, from Greenfield to the Hoosac
Tunnel, is owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
but is leased and operated by
the Vermont and Massachusetts
Railroad Company. The airy and
pleasant cars of this company
take us on board at the Greenfield station, and we are soon
passing over the high bridge
across Green River, and steaming swiftly along the table-land
that overlooks the Deerfield Valley. West Deerfield is the name
of the station at Stillwater; and
just before reaching it we look
far away across the meadows
upon two peaks in the southern
horizon which must be Tom and
Holyoke. The gorge from which
the Deerfield River emerges,
and into which we enter at this
point, is the wildest and most
beautiful spot we have yet
found in our railroading.
The traveler must not be
looking in his book; he must
be looking out of the window.
Shelburne Falls is a thriving
town twelve miles from
Greenfield. The cataract in
the Deerfield at this point is
a beautiful one, though the
glimpse of it that we get from
the cars is hardly satisfactory.
Here is another mammoth
cutlery establishment, next to
the Russell Works at Greenfield
in size and importance. Messrs.
Lamson and Goodnow are the
proprietors. The excellent waterpower afforded by these falls
is turned to good account in
manufacturing.
Here resided, until his
death within the past year, Mr.
Linus Yale, Jr., whose father
picked the locks of Hobbes,
the Englishman, so cleverly,
and who himself made a lock
that the Englishman could not
pick. The Yale locks, known
everywhere, are made here. The
village of Shelburne Falls puts
in a fine appearance, scattered
along the narrow valley, and
upon the adjacent hill-sides.
Two churches confronting each
other on one of the streets made
us think of Dr. Holmes, who,
you know, was always reminded,
when he saw two churches
situated in this manner, of a
pair of belligerent roosters, with
tails erect and crests ruffled,
eyeing each other at close
quarters. These two churches,
it is pleasant to know, are not
in a state of war, nor even in a
condition of armed neutrality,
though their edifices may be in
a threatening attitude.
Beyond Shelburne Falls is
Buckland, a small station where
travelers will be amused to see
T
HE TROY and
a sort of telegraphic contrivance
for carrying the mail across the
river. It is a good illustration
of Yankee ingenuity. Part of
the territory of Buckland was
formerly called "No Town." To
this unpretending old town,
the thoughts of many will
make pilgrimages, though their
eyes may never see the glory
of its wooded hills. It was the
birthplace of Mary Lyon. Here
the valley of the Deerfield,
which for much of the distance
since we left Stillwater has
been only a gorge, grows a little
wider, and there are good farms,
with excellent orchards, on both
sides of the river.
Without doubt, this valley,
in which part of Buckland and
nearly the whole of Charlemont
lie, was once a lake. But
though the hills recede from
the river they do not lose
their attractiveness. Their
symmetrical outlines present
to us a constant and charming
variety of graceful and beautiful
forms. This river, whose banks
we follow, now lying placidly in
the midst of green meadows,
or winding through willow
thickets; now rippling with a
musical delight, which we can
feel if we cannot hear it, over
broad and shallow places; now
reflecting in its smooth pure
waters, long reaches of shingly
shores or islands; now plunging
madly down tortuous rapids this
matchless Deerfield River is to
every traveler who follows its
course a ceaseless fascination, a
perpetual delight.
4
Washington Gladden (18361918), a Congregational church
pastor, prolific writer, and newspaper editor, was a leader of the
Social Gospel and Progressive
movements, and spent his early
career in North Adams. This text
was taken from his 1869 book
From the Hub to the Hudson.
LETTER
Local gem
To the Editor of the Independent:
The Shadow Box, playing again
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at
Memorial Hall in Shelburne Falls,
is a treasure beyond treasures.
We’re so richly blessed that
after a long absense, West County
Players director Rachel Popowich and cast and crew are in the
limelight again. This play somehow becomes rich tapestry and
vibrant chorus of interweaving
themes and deep lessons that
tug on your heartstrings again
and again. Treat yourself!
MIYACA DAWN COYOTE
Buckland, July 18
V IEWPOINT
■ By Bernard den Ouden
Finding a cultural common ground
Amid different cultures, politics, religions, there’s some potential for unity
HEATH
traveled to
Tunisia in North Africa,
where I stayed for six days
and gave a presentation at a
conference, “New Directions in
the Humanities,” at a university in Carthage. It was an occasion for me to meet and confer
with scholars and teachers from
North and South Africa, numerous countries in Asia, South
America, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Europe,
and Russia.
My paper, “Indigenous Voices
and Sacred Spaces,” was about
the two courses that I have developed and led on the Lakota
and the Eastern Pueblos. I was
particularly pleased by the
response of indigenous thinkers
from Hawaii and Australia who
came forward after my talk and
said, “Yes, this is the way we
would like to have our cultures
studied, our people met, and
our places respected.” I was offered invitations to visit them,
and indeed I hope that they
reciprocate and come to visit in
Heath and at the University of
Hartford.
Equally rich and compelling
were the conversations with
philosophers and poets from
Iran, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia,
Lebanon, and Palestine. I had
read some of their work, and
some of them had read mine.
They, as I, have been struggling
to articulate a renewed postcolonial humanism free from
Eurocentric assumptions and
paradigms.
For years I felt like I was
wandering alone in a postmodern desert, a wasteland of nihilism that Nietzsche had predicted where fascism and genocide
became as morally and politically acceptable as the pursuit
of justice or the search for common human responsibilities. I
then discovered postcolonial
I
N EARLY JULY I
thinkers from India, the Caribbean, and Africa. They too were
concerned with the lack of ethics and with the amoral politics
explicit in or clearly implied in
much of Postmodern discourse.
I am excited to meet my
Middle Eastern colleagues who
are interested in a renewed and
transformed humanism. We are
searching for commonalities
to the human condition that
can be focal points for discussion, collective hope, and for
social and political action. We
have strong beginnings in the
United Nations Declarations on
Human Rights and the Asian
version of this covenant, called
the Bangkok Accords.
Asian nations and cultures
place more emphasis on the
rights of community, whereas
western legal principles are
largely based on the rights of
individuals. I do not think that
these traditions are ultimately
incompatible. If we function
with a genuine respect for difference, we can draw on the
best of both of these cultural,
moral, and political values.
WORKING WITH my Middle Eastern friends I am reminded of
an Islamic teacher in the Emirates. A number of terrorists had
been caught by their government and were imprisoned.
Getting permission from the
government, the teacher asked
the prisoners if they would like
to form a study group.
The rules proposed by the
Mullah were that through
studying the Koran together
and discussing it, if they could
convince him that violence of
the form they were engaged
in was justified, he would join
them. If on the other hand
they were convinced that Islam
did not advocate terrorism,
they would sign a document
and foreswear violence of the
form in which they had been
involved.
For three months they spent
six days a week reading and
talking with each other. After
these lengthy discussions the
former terrorists signed a document committing them to a
different path.
Many Muslim people have
been misled by Mullahs into
a false jihad. This is not much
different from what many of us
were taught about the Crusades
or the Crusades themselves.
What were we being taught
through singing “Onward
Christian Soldiers Marching off
to War?” Too frequently we, as
Americans and Europeans have
believed that God was and is
on our side. It happened in our
own history so many times. One
of these occasions was the conquering and forced Christianizing of Native Americans and
the destruction of their languages, religions, and cultures.
MANY MUSLIM PEOPLE believe
that the West and the U.S. in
particular are trying to destroy
Islam. They react to the influx
of western popular culture by
becoming more rigidly conservative. This is not unlike the
puritanical intolerance of the
religious right preaching hatred
and contending that the only
moral persons in the world are
Christians. Mark Twain contended in a number of ways
and through many novels and
characters that when you are
self-righteous and certain, it is
difficult to be thoughtful and
kind. By doing so one also loses
sight of our common humanity.
This disease appears in all
of our cultures, much of our
politics and religions, and too
frequently in our philosophies.
Individuals and movements
that promote and celebrate the
absolute truth are very danger-
ous. They know for certain who
should live and who should die
and who deserves our tolerance
and respect.
If my newfound friends and I
can continue to meet in humility, courage, and resoluteness
perhaps we can make a small
contribution to the positive
relationships between nations
and cultures. There will be no
easy answers.
Genuine thinking, as is the
case with creative politics, is
complex, tedious, and often
riddled with fits and starts. War
is at times tragically necessary,
but these occasions are indeed
rare. Strength does not come
from intimidation.
Voltaire said, “Make sure
your enemy is not totally humiliated.” If so, he will always
remain a threat. Genuine power
comes from values that respect
and celebrate all of humanity.
With genuine respect for diversity, thriving on constructive
disagreement, and working towards sustainable consensus, a
better path or a better configuration of paths may emerge. If
we continue with the rituals of
hatred, vilification, and revenge
in which our governments and
many of our people are currently engaged, no one will win. A
genuine peace has no victors. 4
Bernard den Ouden is Professor
of Philosophy at the University
of Hartford. He is the author of
Language and Creativity, Reason
Will Creativity and Time, The Fusion of Naturalism and Humanism and Are Freedom and Dignity Possible? He has given guest
lectures in over fifteen countries.
He has served as a consultant on
anti-poverty projects in Egypt,
India, Bangladesh, Guatemala,
Mexico, and Pine Ridge Reservation. He spends and much of his
year in Heath as he can.
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Lamson complex
$1.9 million. The complex is valued around $1 million, Buckland
Town Administrator Robert Dean
said.
Companies like Lamson once
needed to be near a river to supply power for electricity and they
needed to be near population
centers so workers could walk to
their jobs. Now, in a 180-degree
twist, those same companies (if
they are still in business) often
find conditions too close for comfort on residential, commercial
and environmental fronts.
Lamson’s owner, J. Ross Anderson, and his corporate officers
have long discussed the need and
vision for a modern, single-floor
manufacturing plant. Zanner
said, however, that no plans are in
the offing to build such a facility
in town or elsewhere, and that
the company’s strategy would
depend on various aspects of the
sale of the complex.
Zanner said one of Lamson’s
options is to expand its facility
at the Industrial Park in Greenfield, where the firm’s shipping
and receiving operations have
been located for three years.
The company’s official corporate
headquarters moved there from
Buckland in the fall of 2005.
In another place and time,
Lamson might have built a new,
30,000-square-foot facility between the current complex and
the Deerfield River and find
new uses for the old buildings,
a scenario proposed in 1999 by
a consulting architectural firm
from Cambridge. The question,
Bolduc said, is whether putting
a new factory next to a river in
2006 would be “doing the land
justice.”
“It’s not the highest and best
use of the property,” Bolduc said.
“To Ross’s credit, he has an affinity for the buildings and the
site.”
Rethinking and reusing
In 1837, brothers Ebenezer and
Nathaniel Lamson and partner
Abel Goodnow began making
knives on the Shelburne side of
the river. By 1850, the company
needed new, modern facilities
and moved to Buckland where
“a large brick building, 208 feet
by 48 feet, was constructed,
three stories high, and before the
cutlery works were moved in the
town of Shelburne Falls held its
Fourth of July celebration in the
upper room, using it as a hall,”
according to The History of Buckland, 1779-1935, by Fannie Shaw
Kendrick, describing “Building
No. 8,” where the first floor is
still the central nervous system
of the company’s manufacturing
operations.
From its original nine buildings, Lamson’s Buckland operation quickly acquired a reputation for quality, and the company
grew in reputation and scope. By
1891, Lamson’s complex became
a meandering collection of 16
buildings of varying sizes, shapes
and uses. By this time the firm
offered 500 different styles of
cutlery.
Its hundreds of workers —
many experienced craftsmen
hailing from Sheffield, England
and Solingen, Germany — presented U.S. President Ulysses
S. Grant with a 62-piece pearland ivory-handled dinner set in
1869.
In the intervening years, the
workforce has shrunk, mostly by
attrition, recalls Dennis Clark, a
24-year employee in the polishing
department. The company, which
employed almost 100 people at
the time of Buckland’s bicentennial in 1979, now numbers 60,
including office staff based in
Greenfield.
In Buckland, 29 factory workers
create precision cutlery using a
production process that integrates methods that have hardly
changed in a century with modern computer-numerical control
(CNC) equipment.
Today just 10 buildings remain.
In addition to Building No. 8,
the complex includes Building
No. 9 and Building No. 5, both
from the 1850s. Building No. 9
is vacant and Building No. 5 was
renovated in 1997 and houses
Lamson’s factory outlet store.
Until the fall of 2005 it was home
to the company’s headquarters.
Now the upstairs is rented to
the architectural firm of Juster
Pope Frazer, which moved there
several months ago from its
longtime home in Salmon Falls
Marketplace.
Several 1890s-era buildings
remain. Building No. 1, the twostory brick structure that parallels Conway Street, now houses
West County News/Turley Publications and Greenleaf Press, Carl
Darrow’s artisanal letterpress
printing shop. The company still
uses the two-floor, brick-and-wood
Building No. 11 as a woodworking shop where the handles of its
cutlery are manufactured. A twostory wooden building from the
era, Building No. 10, is unused.
Lamson’s metal press and laser
building — Building No. 4 — was
built in 1920.
Several buildings adjacent to
Conway Street were demolished
in 1997; several others were
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whisked away by the flood of
1938.
Looking for a good match
Zanner said the complex would
be a good match for “a developer
who is experienced and who has
the wherewithal to take on a
reconstruction project,” one that
would transform historic industrial buildings into residential
use — a use the company had
already started to explore before
deciding to sell.
“We have a couple of interested parties already,” Zanner
said.
Although the entire property,
including the factory outlet store,
will be on the market, Zanner
said that didn’t preclude a buyer
renting retail space to the company to keep the store operating.
“Anything’s possible,” Zanner
said. “Depending on the buyer,
we may sell a certain portion of
the property or otherwise subdivide it.”
Bolduc said that Lamson had
hired architect Joseph Mattei in
2004 to explore alternative uses
of the complex.
As she unfurled the designs,
Bolduc described them as one
comprehensive scenario of what
the property might become.
Mattei’s preliminary site design concept — featuring 35
housing units, commercial office
space, retail space, community
rooms, green space, a gazebo,
and plenty of parking — “honors the history of the buildings
and reuses them,” Bolduc said.
Since the buildings were connected for a single purpose, the
complex could be well suited to
the use of a close-knit residential
community.
Such a plan might also ease
some of the pressure on the
village’s housing stock, Bolduc
predicted.
“It’s the only responsible place
[in the village] where there’s
the opportunity for residential
development,” she said.
“Should it be residential? Or
commercial? That’s the real nut to
crack,” Bolduc said. “It’s not likely to be any form of industry.”
Bolduc said her role is to find
one party — “or two, or three”
— who would have “the financial
wherewithal, the vision and the
ability” to find a different use, a
scenario where “the land wins,
the town wins, the buyer wins,
and Lamson wins.”
“They’re open to any creative
way to solve this puzzle,” she
said.
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ferent. I’ve been doing this for a
long time. Twenty-seven years is
a long time to be police chief.”
DeJackome said that the new
position, which he’d applied for
last month, would “not necessarily” mean a significant boost in
income.
Due to their summer schedule,
Shelburne selectmen will not
officially consider DeJackome’s
resignation until they next meet
on Aug. 14. Selectman Joe Judd,
who serves as police liaison, had
spoken informally with DeJackome about the resignation during
the past few days.
“The board is pretty much
together about the fact that we
understand Mark’s request and
certainly we intend to honor it,”
Judd said during a phone call on
July 18. “We’re sorry to see him
go. He’s been our chief for the
last quarter century, longer.”
Judd said he hoped that DeJackome would agree to continue
to serve as a part-time chief,
while the town seeks a candidate
for the soon-to-be-vacant post.
Judd also said that he hoped
that fellow board members would
agree to the creation of a review
board, to be composed of “peopleat-large and elected officials” to
assist in the vetting process.
“I have no plans to rush this,”
Judd said. “It’s going to be a very
meticulous, a very well-thoughtout process, and we’re going to
find out what our community is
looking for in relation to a new
chief.”
Town counsel Donna MacNicol
has informed Judd that the process of selecting a new police
chief could take from three to six
months. The selectman said that
he has “an unofficial goal” of selecting a new chief by the first of
next year. He also noted that the
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Patrick to visit Heath
HEATH—Deval Patrick, a
Democrat Party candidate for
governor, will visit interested
residents at the Heath Elementary School on Monday, Aug. 7
from 12-2 p.m.
Town Democratic Committee
Chairman Art Schwenger said
the school was booked under a
standing policy that the building,
owned by the town of Heath, is
made available for community
events.
“Part of the reason for his visit
is if he were to become governor,
Heath is a great example of a
small rural town that’s being
treated unfairly by state policy,”
Schwenger said. “From my perspective, anyone who might be
in that corner office should come
and visit this school.”
Schwenger added the Patrick
event should transcend partisan
politics and serve as an opportunity for townspeople to engage
with someone on the frontline
of the political debate.
“We’re expecting to see Republicans, independent voters, and
people who don’t vote, as well as
Democrats,” he said.
House party for
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HAWLEY—Tinky and Jan
Weisblat will host a “Meet Margie Ware” party on Sunday, July
30, at their home at 84 Middle
Road in Hawley 1-4 p.m. The
public is invited and refreshments will be served.
Ware is a Democratic candidate
for state senate in the Berkshire,
Hampshire and Franklin district
that includes Ashfield, Charlemont, Conway, Hawley, Heath,
Monroe and Rowe.
Regional director for the SHINE
(Serving Health Information Needs
of Elders) program in Berkshire
County, the candidate has spent
more than 30 years in western
Massachusetts as a local official,
parent, volunteer and worker.
To RSVP or get more information contact the Ware Campaign
at (413) 997-9273 ([email protected]) or Tinky or Jan Weisblat
at 339-4747 ([email protected])
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hiring of a new chief will be left
to newly-elected board member
John Payne and himself. Chair
Bob Manners, a member of the
police force, will recuse himself
from deliberations.
Raising level of law
enforcement
Judd praised DeJackome, noting that the chief had brought
“a world of knowledge” to the
job. He cited DeJackome’s talent
for bringing in grant monies and
outside funding for departmental
needs as well as his professionalism in operating a force of nine
officers.
“He brought a level of law
enforcement into the village that
I think has served him well in
relation to keeping Shelburne a
town that has become a tourist
attraction, and at the same time,
a town that people like to live in,”
Judd said.
Judd believes, but could not
confirm immediately, that DeJackome has the longest tenure
on record as Shelburne’s Police
Chief. DeJackome first served as
a federal agent before taking on
duties for two years as a patrolman in Orange. In 1980 he left
that position and moved here
to begin serving as Shelburne’s
Police Chief.
He and his wife, Irene, are
the parents of Matthew, 23, and
Gemma, 19. Their son has recently graduated from Vermont
Tech with a degree in architecture. Their daughter is now a
sophomore at Westfield State
College.
DeJackome said that job stresses were not a factor in his decision to step down.
“I love the job,” he said. “The
job’s been great and this town
has been great to work for, It’s
a fantastic town to work for. It
was a great place to raise my
children.”
Swimming lessons
at Ashfield Lake
ASHFIELD—For people who
want to learn to swim closer to
Ashfield, swimming lessons are
available from July 24-Aug. 4,
through the Ashfield Park Commission. Forms are available at
Ashfield Lake, Ashfield Hardware, Ashfield Town Hall and
Belding Memorial Library. The
cost is $35.
The chief added that he and
his wife have no intentions to
move from town. Irene is chair of
the Shelburne Health Board and
she continues to operate her own
business in Greenfield.
“Mark will be missed for a lot
of reasons, but mainly because
Mark was a good guy,” Judd
concluded. “Any police chief has
his issues. You’re not going to
please everybody if you’re in the
role of police officer. Basically,
I think he’s served the town of
Shelburne pretty well for the last
27 years.”
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it a “great opportunity to come
into the community,” Mike and
Ellen Eller have purchased Sawyer News Company from longtime
owners Don and Kathy Upton.
“They put 18 years in here,”
said Ellen Eller. “They said to
me, Ìt needs some new blood.’”
The couple have lived in
Buckland for two years. They
plan minimal changes for the
61 Bridge Street business. They
said patrons can expect new toys
and crafts and “a refurbished
selection of greeting cards,” but,
as Mike Eller said, the store will
remain an iconic newsstand.
“We’ll still maintain newspapers, offer smokes and tobacco,
and sell office supplies,” he
said.
Mike Eller, a coin collector,
added that he might integrate
that interest into the business or
offer a collectible coin enterprise
under the same roof. He brings
an eclectic background to the
business and experience ranging
from managing a warehouse to
selling cars in Greenfield.
Ellen Eller, a former senior
copywriter for Doubleday Book
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Schindler assumes that there
will be a big celebration to mark
the occasion.
SFI photo/Laura Rodley
Belden Merims and Basil Hoffman in front of the Arthur A. Smith
covered bridge in Colrain. The bridge, on Lyonsville Road, is being
refurbished with federal monies, with repairs set to be completed
in 2007. Merims is a longtime member of the Colrain Historical
Society. Hoffman was a founding member of the Bridge Committee,
which assembled in 1989 and worked with the Colrain Historical
Society to set in motion the long process of restoring the bridge.
The photo shows the beginning curve of the Burr arches, for which
the bridge is known. It is the last surviving Burr arch bridge in
Massachusetts.
Covered bridge
North River. Hoffman guesses
that local craftsmen built the
bridge
“They were pretty inventive,”
he said.
The bridge here is listed in the
World Guide of Massachusetts
list of covered bridges and in the
National Society for Preservation
of Covered Bridges, Inc.
Lapsed into a state of disrepair
and unusable by vehicular traffic, the bridge was removed from
its abutments in 1990. There it
sat, until Northern Construction
Company was hired by the state
to rebuild it.
“They are fabricating it in the
warehouse, the old AF& F warehouse,” said Diana Schindler,
assistant administrator for the
selectmen for the town of Colrain,
referring to the former American
Fiber & Finishing plant, then the
town’s largest employer. “They
have a goal date of Labor Day.
The contract goes until October
of 2007. We suspect that it will be
done this summer. If they want to
leave their tools, and come back
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later, they can. For our purposes,
we do not plan on it being done
until next year. It is a state contract. Until they release the site
back to the town, we can’t do
anything.”
The bridge will be put back
on its abutment across the North
River in Lyonsville. But the current design is for pedestrian
traffic.
“We’re not sure if it is going
to be open for vehicular usage,”
Schindler said. “We plan for it to
be pedestrian only. We have to
wait to see if it can safely accommodate traffic. The abutments are
five feet off the ground. It may be
a marked one-way bridge. Right
now the selectmen have decided
that it will be pedestrian-only
bridge. It’s got such an incline
when you’re on the road, you cannot see through the bridge. It will
never be a two way bridge.”
The five-foot incline means that
the drive isn’t able to see through
the bridge to oncoming traffic. It
is not a fairly flat approach from
the road, as with other covered
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“I’m quite sure they [town officials] blocked the bridge off in
1980. It had big rocks in front of
it so nobody could drive through,”
said Hoffman, noting that despite
its need for repair, the bridge was
not in danger of falling down. “It
was painted once in a while, but
nothing serious was ever done.
That’s why it deteriorated. The
town used to replace the planks
where the wheel tracks went.
They would pop up and come
apart.”
As cars approached the bridge,
the wheel tracks, two-by-six-inch
planks, ran diagonally across it,
supported underneath.
“Everybody loved this bridge,”
said Belden Merims, a member
of the Colrain Historical Society.
“It was named for a man who had
once been in another place and
moved here.”
Because of residents’ attachment to the bridge, a Bridge
Committee was formed in 1989
that met weekly in hopes to
restore the bridge. Members
consulted with Arnold Graton,
a well-known covered bridge
restorer who rebuilt the Palmer
covered bridge.
“Graton’s estimate for fixing
the bridge was $80,000,” said
Merims.
“ Th e B r i d g e C o m m i t t e e
planned to raise money for donations and get Graton here,” said
Hoffman, noting all but two of
the original committee members
have died.
Th ey i n c l u d e
Ronald Scott, Jim Cromack,
Lousie O’Brien and Ray Austin.
Phillips Sherburne is another
member who still lives in town.
“He’s the youngest of any of
us,” said Hoffman. Another member, “Ed Thorne has moved away.”
Louise O’Brien was responsible
for placing the bridge on the
National Historic Register.
The committee raised money
by selling T-shirts and coffee
mugs and holding bake sales and
sitting at booths at the Heath and
Tri-County fairs.
“The whole Historical Society
supported us,” Hoffman said.
“They addressed envelopes, sold
tickets. A lot of people supported
us.”
With donations of $1 to $500,
$30,000 was raised. Anybody who
gave $500 dollars or more was
promised to have their names
included in a plaque that will be
either on the bridge or on a stone
by the bridge. In 1990 a celebration was held when Graton and
a team of oxen moved the bridge
off its abutments.
“It was a wonderful event,”
said Merims. “We expected he
would restore it and put it back
on the abutments. When the Massachusetts Historic Commission
got involved, it got out of our
hands. The Massachusetts Highway Department got involved.”
At that point, the land the
bridge is on had to be removed
from the state’s Agriculture Preservation Restriction program and
the bridgework had to go out to
bid. Now the price tag for the
work is about $2 million.
“We were hoping to have
Graton work on it,” Hoffman
said. “Engineers from Vermont,
from the New England Society of
Covered Bridges, did the design
work for nothing.”
Merims explained that the
state requirements for the span
include that it withstand a 100year wind and a 100-year flood—
engineering terms that indicate
wind and rain of such velocity
that it occurs every century.
“We’ve [Massachusetts] had
tornados, but Colrain has not had
a tornado go through,” Merims
said. “The hurricane of ’38 did
go through Colrain.”
The bridge here withstood that
hurricane.
The state has made other
changes, including adding more
space for water to go through in
a three-foot higher foundation.
Hoffman said that the thing
that “saved” the old bridge from
greater weather damage is that
“water could go around the
edges.”
“I saw water go into the cornfields,” he said.
The state’s perspective
“The designs process can be
lengthy,” said Mark Moore, project development engineer for
the Mass Highway Department
in District One, which includes
Colrain.
Part of his job entails getting projects ready and out for
bidding.
“The town requested Mass
Highway participation,” Moore
said. “I don’t know if it was the
selectmen or the town’s historic
association. The request would
have come through the town. This
project had a project manager
in Boston and was designed by a
consultant in Boston.”
According to records, Mass
Highway become involved in 2002
and initiated a project request at
that time. A public hearing was
held in 2003. A contract award
was awarded July 14, 2005 for a
price of $2,123,690.
Moore recalled that Mass
Highway had funding mechanisms in place to assist the town
in receiving reimbursement, but
that action had been the limit
of the state’s involvement until
2002.
Regarding the need for the
bridge to be built to withstand
100-year winds and floods, Moore
said, “I could not speak specifically to the criteria for this
project.”
“Any project has to meet current building codes,” he said. “All
projects are required to withstand a certain amount of wind
force. There is some dependency
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covered bridge
Instead of Graton restoring
the bridge and returning it to
its abutments, the new design
criteria called for rebuilding the
bridge. And, after 16 years of just
sitting in the field, as Hoffman
noted, “Stuff deteriorated as it
was sitting there.” What is now
being built is an exact replica of
the original bridge, designed to
accommodate one-way traffic.
“They were able to use more
of the original timbers than
expected,” Merims said. “Some
of the diagonals, weight-bearing
timber and metal work are original. Everything that looks gray
now is from the old bridge.”
The Burr arch has also been
replaced.
“Somebody said what we have
now is a $2 million sidewalk,” she
said.
But there is a new bridge, and
most seem happy about that.
“We’re pleased,” Hoffman said.
“They’re doing a real nice job on
it. It looks like the outfit that is
working on it is doing a real good
job. It’s got a lot of memories for
a lot of people. We’re glad it’s being fixed again. It’s a shame it’s
going to be a footbridge, [but]
it’ll be a destination.”
One thing that everyone can
agree on is a celebration when
the bridge is finally back in place
across the river—where a bridge
belongs.
Where did our money go?
Some who had readily donated
to restore the bridge wondered
where their money went.
“The Bridge Committee never
had nonprofit status,” Merims
said. “They [donors] gave money
to the Colrain Historical Society
that held it in a separate account. Last year funds were
turned over to the historical commission, a town department, and
a new committee has now been
formed to include that panel and
members of the historical society.
Some of the money raised paid
to move the bridge in 1990. The
new committee will decide how
to spend the remaining money.
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He reiterated that the town is
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The first day of the project saw Main Street closed and traffic detoured as a result of a sewer and drainage replacement project. That
project has been completed eight weeks early, and traffic flow and
parking in the village are back to normal.
Sewer, drainage project
done, ahead of schedule
By Jeff Potter
jeff@sfindependent.net
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SHELBURNE FALLS--The
huge earth-moving equipment
has left town. New drainage
and sewer pipes are now safely
ensconced underground, and
fluorescent orange detour signs
are put away. Other than a few
cosmetic touches yet to come,
the necessary disruption of a
sewer and drainage replacement
project is now over.
The trouble is, Art Schwenger
says, some people still assume the
worst and are staying far away
from town under the mistaken
assumption that the village is a
torn-up construction zone. And
that makes the executive director of the Shelburne Falls Area
Business Association wince.
“I ran into one person in Greenfield who said something to
the effect that she was afraid
to come to Shelburne Falls,”
Schwenger said. “And then I ran
into another person who said,
‘Oh, Bridge Street is closed, isn’t
it?’ People hear things, and it
tends to blossom.”
Part of the confusion might
well have resulted from the careful communication about the
project, designed to raise awareness and encourage business
as usual to the greatest extent
possible.
Townspeople and businesses
were told to gird themselves for
three months of lost parking,
detours and other inconveniences
that would result from replacing
underground infrastructure.
As it happened, the construction, which started May 15, was
completed in four weeks after
general contractor Borges Construction, of Ludlow doubled the
number of workers on the project
to accelerate its progress.
Fast and smooth
“The project went fast and
went pretty smoothly, as projects
go,” said Schwenger, adding that
village businesses, while by and
large affected lightly, are “relieved” that the work is done.
Schwenger said the business
that suffered the most was Greenfield Savings Bank, which lost
the use of its drive-through window “every day for about two
weeks.”
“When you dig into the ground
to replace an old sewer, you never
know what you’re going to get,”
Schwenger said.
Construction workers uncovered old coins and old corked
(but empty) whiskey bottles.
They also found an unmovable
boulder “the size of a cement
truck” under Baker Avenue,
Schwenger said.
Town officials have known
there were problems with drainage culverts, as evidenced by
buckling in the municipal parking lot in back of the commercial
buildings on Bridge Street.
Schwenger said that the work
uncovered the extent to which
the system, made of dry stone
masonry and wood, had deteriorated. “They were in danger
of collapsing,” he said of the
culverts.
“The penetration of groundwater into the sewer system was
enormous,” Schwenger added.
“All that water would go down
and through the sewage treatment plant. The system was not
as effective.”
The century-old cast-iron/clay
sewer lines ran parallel to the
drainage lines, crossing the
length of the parking lot from
Main to Water streets, including
a section installed under the Hotel Block housing the Shelburne
Falls Supermarket (formerly the
Keystone Market).
“These sewer lines have been
replaced with PVC pipes in a
new location towards the center
of the parking lot, away from
any building,” said John Ryan,
grant consultant and project
administrator.
Parking lot surfaces have
been coated with two layers of
pavement where excavation occurred. The lot will receive a final
topcoat and will be re-striped in
the late fall 2006 or early spring
2007, Ryan said.
Schwenger said that for all
the inconvenience, the project
staved off more comprehensive
repairs.
“If there were a major collapse,
you aren’t talking a three-week
repair project. You’re talking
something much bigger and much
more disruptive,” he said.
Who paid for it
Schwenger also serves as the
program manager of the Shelburne Falls Area Partnership, a
formal working group made up of
Buckland and Shelburne boards
of selectmen and members of the
SFABA’s board of directors.
In the case of the recent sewer
work, Schwenger said that on behalf of the Partnership he tried
to orchestrate communications
about construction and traffic
detours from concerned citizens
and businesses. At the same time,
under the auspices of the SFABA,
he “was really representing concerned businesses,” he said.
Funding for the project came
from a Community Development
Block Grant through the state
Department of Housing and
Community Development and
from the town highway and sewer
department budgets.
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Concert: “CelebratCHARLEMONT
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Matthew Hunter, violist, the first
American to gain a position in
the esteemed Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, makes his MTC debut
at these concerts, and is joined
by Estela Olevsky, pianist, in the
premiere of a new work, especially written for him by Robert
Stern. They will also perform the
Adagio and Allegro, Opus 70 by
Robert Schumann. Hunter and
Masako Yanagita, violinist will
play the Duo (for violin and viola)
#1 in G major by Mozart, and, in
recognition of the 100th birthday
of Shostakovich, Ms. Olevsky, Ms.
Yanagita and Mr. Hunter will be
joined by Tessa Petersen, violin
and Roberta Cooper, cello, in a
performance of Shostakovich’s
great Piano Quintet. 7:30 p.m.
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Annual summer art
exhibition: Regional
artists exhibit works that include
landscapes, still lives, and floral
subjects in a variety of styles and
media, as well as a variety of locally
made crafts. Reception July 23, 5-7
p.m. Through Sunday, August 06.
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Winner of the 1977 Tony Award
and Pulitzer Prize, The Shadow
Box, by Michael Cristofer, follows
three cancer patients as they come
to terms with their deaths. It has
been praised by critics for its insight, humor and perceptiveness
in dealing with a very difficult
subject.7:30 p.m. $6 all seats on
opening night. West County Players, Memorial Hall, 51 Bridge St.
shelburnefallsmemorialhall.org.
Ya n ke e D o o d l e
CHARLEMONT
Days: Charlemont’s
annual hometown fair. 5 p.m.:
Fairgrounds open (food, crafts,
vendors); rides; Rosie’s Racing
Pigs (check board for times); music and dancing with Sierra Pearl.
5:30 p.m.: Women’s Club ham and
bean supper. 6:30 p.m.: Cruise
night, with classic car exhibition.
7-9:30 p.m.: Music and dancing
with Shakin’ All Over. 7-11 p.m.:
Square and round dancing in the
exhibition hall with music by The
Country Friendship Band and
caller Bob Livingston. 8:30 p.m.:
Cruise Lap (rain date July 22). 10
p.m. Air- and ground-shaking
displays of fireworks. Pre-show
rides in monster truck (rain date
July 22).5-11 p.m. Through Sunday,
July 23. $7; $3, ages 4-12. Friends
of the Charlemont Fairgrounds,
Charlemont Fairgrounds, Route 8A.
Information: 413-339-5334; www.
charlemontfriends.org.
O p e n Po e t ry and Prose
Reading Series: Writers wishing
to participate may sign up for a
five-minute time slot the night of
the reading. Listeners welcomed.
Refreshments.Lower level. Parking
and universal accessibility available in rear of building. Free. Arms
Library, Corner of Bridge and Main
streets. Information: 413-625-0306;
[email protected].
SHELBURNE FALLS
Farmer’s market:
Noon-4:30 p.m., upper lot of the rear parking area.
Franklin Medical Center, 164 High
St. Information: (413) 773-2268;
baystatehealth.com/fmc.
GREENFIELD
Theater: Guys
and Dolls: Guys
and Dolls, under the direction of
Nick Waynelovich, will include
25 male dancers as part of the
production numbers along with 20
female dancers from JaDuke. The
plot follows the oldest permanent
floating crap game as it pits gamblers against do-gooders while the
outcome of a bet, involving love,
TURNERS FALLS
is played out. Well known musical numbers include “Luck be a
Lady,” “Marry the Man Today,” “Sit
Down, You”re Rocking the Boat,”
“A Bushel and a Peck,” and “If I
Were a Bell.” Moriah Sterling as
Miss Sarah Brown, Peter Rizzo as
Nicely Nicely and Brian McCarthy
as Nathan Detroit. Taking his first
JaDuke lead role is Matt McCormick as Sky Masterson. Kimberly
Waynelovich, a world champion
tap dancer, is the choreographer.
8 p.m. Through Saturday, July
22. $12; $10, under 12 or over 65.
Ja’Duke Productions, Shea Theatre,
71 Avenue A. Information: (413)
863-2281; www.jaduke.com.
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SATURDAY,
JULY
Bang on a Can AllStars concert: 8
p.m. $22. MassMOCA, 87 Marshall
www.massmoca.org.
NORTH ADAMS
Concert: “Celebrating Shostokovich”:
Matthew Hunter, violist, the first
American to gain a position in
the esteemed Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, makes his MTC debut
at these concerts, and is joined
by Estela Olevsky, pianist, in the
premiere of a new work, especially written for him by Robert
Stern. They will also perform the
Adagio and Allegro, Opus 70 by
Robert Schumann. Hunter and
Masako Yanagita, violinist will
play the Duo (for violin and viola)
#1 in G major by Mozart, and, in
recognition of the 100th birthday
of Shostakovich, Ms. Olevsky, Ms.
Yanagita and Mr. Hunter will be
joined by Tessa Petersen, violin
and Roberta Cooper, cello, in a
performance of Shostakovich’s
great Piano Quintet.8 p.m. A reception for the audience to meet
the artists follows the concert.
CHARLEMONT
Live performance: Kristen
Ford: Kristen Ford is a folk rocker
with a Northampton-esque indie
heart.8 p.m. Free; tips appreciated. Mocha Maya’s, 47 Bridge St.
SHELBURNE FALLS
Play: “The
SHELBURNE FALLS
Shadow Box”:
Winner of the 1977 Tony Award
and Pulitzer Prize, The Shadow
Box, by Michael Cristofer, follows
three cancer patients as they come
to terms with their deaths. It has
been praised by critics for its insight, humor and perceptiveness
in dealing with a very difficult
subject.7:30 p.m. $6 all seats on
opening night. West County Players, Memorial Hall, 51 Bridge St.
shelburnefallsmemorialhall.org.
Farmer’s Market: 9
a.m.-12:30 p.m. Ashfield Farmers Market, In front of
Ashfield Historical Society Museum, 457 Main St. Information:
(413) 628-0198; [email protected].
ASHFIELD
annual hometown fair. 10 a.m. Food,
crafts, vendors open. Petting zoo,
show rabbits, lupa zoo. “Windows to Our Past” vendors. Native
American storytelling and exhibit;
Rosie’s Racing Pigs (check board
for times); PoppyTown Puppets &
Music (check board for times). 11
a.m.: Rides, Vic and Sticks (Vaudeville musical storytelling); ox draw;
cross-cut saw demo and portable
sawmill (all afternoon); Yankee
Doodle Day postage stamp cancellation. 12:30 p.m.: T-Bone. 2 p.m. Vic
and Sticks (Vaudeville musical
storytelling). 2:30 p.m.: Sawdust
pit with prizes (children). 3 p.m.:
Coleraine City Cloggers, potato
sack races, kid”s games with prizes.
4 p.m. Chicken barbecue. 5 p.m.
T-Bone; demolition derby. 8-10
p.m. Music and dancing to Cottonwood Band.8 a.m.-11 p.m. Rain or
shine. No alcohol, no bikes, no pets
(guide dogs permitted). Through
Sunday, July 23. $7; $3, ages 4-12.
Friends of the Charlemont Fairgrounds, Charlemont Fairgrounds,
Route 8A. Information: 413-3395334; www.charlemontfriends.org.
CHARLEMONT
Live performance:
The Bobby Darling
Show: Foot-stomping music and
knee-slapping comedy with The
Bobby Darling Show (www.bobbydarling.com) follows buffet dinner.
Dinner, 6-8 p.m.; show follows.
$23, dinner and show; $7, show
only. Stillwater’s Restaurant,
1745 Route 2. Information: (413)
625-6200; www.stillwaters-restaurant.
com.
CHARLEMONT
pianist Boris Berman Lerdahl: Time
After Time Beethoven: Grosse Fuge
in B flat Major Beethoven: Sonata
in A Major for violin and piano
(“Kreutzer”). 8 p.m. Wheelchair
accessible. $15; season passes available. Yellow Barn Music, Buckley
Recital Hall, Amherst College,
Route 9. Information: 800-6393819; www.yellowbarn.org.
SUNDAY,
JULY
23
Play: “The
Shadow Box”:
Winner of the 1977 Tony Award and
Pulitzer Prize, The Shadow Box,
by Michael Cristofer, follows three
cancer patients as they come to
terms with their deaths. It has been
praised by critics for its insight, humor and perceptiveness in dealing
with a very difficult subject.2 p.m.
$12; $10 in advance (students and
seniors: $10, $8 in advance). Advance tickets available at Boswell’s
Books, 10 Bridge St. West County
Players, Memorial Hall, 51 Bridge
www.shelburnefallsmemorialhall.org.
MONDAY,
JULY
Lecture: Basic economics: Second in
a series about finances and economics with Dr. Chris Martenson,
who holds an MBA from Cornell
University and a Ph.D. from Duke.
7-9 p.m.; continues Tuesday, Aug.
1. Suggested donation $10/session,
sliding scale. Greenfield Community College, 270 Main St. Information: (413) 648-0542; www.gcc.
mass.edu.
GREENFIELD
SHELBURNE FALLS
annual hometown fair. 9 a.m. Pancake breakfast. 9:30 a.m. Church
service. 10 a.m. Food, crafts, vendors open; horse draw; gymkhana;
“Windows to Our Past” vendors;
quilting bee; Basil Dorsey”s Underground Railroad quilt; Taylor”s
Fort excavation exhibit; Rosie’s
Racing Pigs (check board for
times); PoppyTown Puppets &
Music (check board for times);
petting zoo; lupa zoo; Coleraine
City Cloggers. 11 a.m.: T-Bone.
Noon: rides; “Windows to Our Past”
parade begins at the west end of
Charlemont. 1 p.m.: Parade arrives
at Fairgrounds; crosscut saw demo,
portable sawmill (all afternoon);
chicken barbecue. 1:30 p.m. T-Bone.
2 p.m.: Tournament of Trills. 2:30
p.m.: Doc Streeter Award (Charlemont Lions Club). 3 p.m. Zoe
Darrow and the Fiddleheads. 4
p.m. Yankee Doodle Days Raffle:
10th Revival Quilt (prize: Berkshire
East Season Ski Pass). 8 a.m.-5
p.m. Rain or shine. No alcohol, no
bikes, no pets (guide dogs permitted). $7; $3, ages 4-12. Friends
of the Charlemont Fairgrounds,
Charlemont Fairgrounds, Route 8A.
Information: 413-339-5334; www.
charlemontfriends.org.
CHARLEMONT
Concert: Chamber
music: Chamber music
concert featuring J.S. Bach: “Italian” Concerto in F Major with
AMHERST
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TUESDAY,
JULY
Concert: Edie
Brickell and New
Bohemians: Edie Brickell and The
New Bohemians first stormed onto
the charts with their 1989 debut
“Shooting Rubberbands at the
Stars” and the hit single, “What I
Am,” which helped propel them to
multi-platinum status. Their new
studio album “Stranger Things”
is their first in 16 years.8 p.m. A
reception for the audience to meet
the artists follows the concert.
Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center
St. Information, ticket prices, and
reservations: (413) 584-0610; www.
iheg.com.
NORTHAMPTON
FRIDAY,
JULY
28
Performance: Moonlight and Morning
Star: Jazz favorites will be featured at the next “A Bouquet of
Music.” Refreshments. The duo
will perform classical, folk, gospel
and Jewish selections. The Healing
Environment Committee, series
sponsor, is interested in hearing
from area performers who would
like to volunteer for future concerts. Noon-1 p.m.; hospital main
lobby. Free. Franklin Medical
Center, 164 High St. Information:
(413) 773-2573; baystatehealth.
com/fmc.
GREENFIELD
Concert: The St.
Petersburg Quartet: This quartet performed in
Charlemont as the Leningrad
Quartet during their very first year
in America (in collaboration with
Musicorda, then a newly-established summer school for young
professionals co-founded by artist
friends of Mohawk Trail Concerts,
CHARLEMONT
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W I N N E R O F T H E 1 9 7 7 P U L I T Z E R P R I Z E A N D T H E 1 9 7 7 T O N Y AWA R D
by Michael Cristofer • directed by Rachel Popowich
“The Bobby Darling Show”
Sat. July 22
July 14, 15, 21 and 22,
7:30 p.m.
—
July 16 and 23,
2 p.m.
—
Memorial Hall
Dinner Dance
$23.00 for buffet dinner and the show!
$7.00 cover for music only.
Buffet starts at 6:00; music at 8:00
•
Please join us for Sunday breakfast
from 7:30 until 12:00
and dinner 6 nights per week 5:00-8:30,
9:00 on Fri. and Sat.
WITH Kurt Blaha, Robert Campbell,
Suzanne Conway Legrèze,
Carrie Ferretti, Erin Freed,
Phil Hayes, Marc Kaufmann,
Marcia Schuhle AND
Cale Weissman
$10 in advance • $12 at the door • ($8 and $10, students and seniors)
Special opening night price: $6 all seats!
Advance tickets at Boswell’s Books, Shelburne Falls
For more information, call (413) 625-9863 or (413) 625-9362
Call 625-6200 for information or reservations
Now open for brunch
8 a.m.–1 p.m.
! Friday, July 21 — The Rock Hounds
Live music Friday, July 28 — Bobby Darling and Dr. Divine
Saturday, July 29 — The NoNo’s
Just a 10 mile ride from Shelburne Falls!
Dinners 5–9 weekdays, until 10 weekends
Lunches Wednesday–Monday from 11:30 a.m., Tuesday from 3 p.m.
Children’s Menu • Open 7 nights a week
141 Buckland Rd. • Ashfield, MA • 628-0158
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
The Academy at Charlemont
Always something special
H J C 9 6 N H / Feast
on the LONGEST-RUNNING
BREAKFAST BUFFET IN THE COUNTY! All you can eat,
7:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .-#..
Live music every Saturday night
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- Susan Angeletti
- The Hill Tones,
celebrating the end of
Yankee Doodle Days
- Gina Coleman and
Misty Blue
Yankee
Doodle
Days
July 21,
22, 23
The
Charlemont Inn
on the scenic Mohawk Trail
Charlemont, MA 01339 • 413-339-5796
www.charlemontinn.com
Summer Theater Workshop
PRESENTS
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July 19, 20, 21
Wednesday • Thursday • Friday
10 a.m. • 1 p.m. • 7 p.m..
—All Shows Free
—Air conditioned
—Suitable for all ages
For more information please call
The Academy at Charlemont
(413) 339-4912
Call Linda at
(413) 625-8297
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Jackie Melnick and `Terry’ Teraspulsky). This evening’s concert
will be dedicated to the memory
of Melnick, who died in November
and whose vibrant presence is an
enormous loss to the region’s musical community. The St. Petersburg
Quartet brings music from their native Russia, including their tribute
to Shostakovich, and winds up the
Mohawk Trail Concerts season.
They will be joined by Abba Bogin,
pianist, with the second of the two
Mozart Piano Quartets.7:30 p.m.
Nicely Nicely and Brian McCarthy
as Nathan Detroit. Taking his first
JaDuke lead role is Matt McCormick as Sky Masterson. Kimberly
Waynelovich, a world champion
tap dancer, is the choreographer. 8
p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m.,
Sunday. Through Sunday, July
30. $12; $10, under 12 or over 65.
Ja’Duke Productions, Shea Theatre,
71 Avenue A. Information: (413)
863-2281; www.jaduke.com.
Live performance: Derrik
Jordan: Multi-instrumentalist
Derrik Jordan will make his debut
appearance performing on the
violin using a mesmerizing looping
technique.8 p.m. free (tips appreciated). Mocha Maya’s, 47 Bridge St.
Concert: The St.
Petersburg Quartet: This quartet performed in
Charlemont as the Leningrad
Quartet during their very first year
in America (in collaboration with
Musicorda, then a newly-established summer school for young
professionals co-founded by artist
friends of Mohawk Trail Concerts,
Jackie Melnick and `Terry’ Teraspulsky). This evening’s concert
will be dedicated to the memory
of Melnick, who died in November
and whose vibrant presence is an
enormous loss to the region’s musical community. The St. Petersburg
Quartet brings music from their
native Russia, including their
tribute to Shostakovich, and winds
up the Mohawk Trail Concerts season. They will be joined by Abba
Bogin, pianist, with the second of
the two Mozart Piano Quartets.8
p.m. A reception for the audience to
meet the artists follows the concert.
SHELBURNE FALLS
Theater: Guys
and Dolls: Guys
and Dolls, under the direction of
Nick Waynelovich, will include
25 male dancers as part of the
production numbers along with 20
female dancers from JaDuke. The
plot follows the oldest permanent
floating crap game as it pits gamblers against do-gooders while the
outcome of a bet, involving love,
is played out. Well known musical numbers include “Luck be a
Lady,” “Marry the Man Today,” “Sit
Down, You”re Rocking the Boat,”
“A Bushel and a Peck,” and “If I
Were a Bell.” Moriah Sterling as
Miss Sarah Brown, Peter Rizzo as
TURNERS FALLS
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SATURDAY,
JULY
CHARLEMONT
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Farmer’s Market: 9
a.m.-12:30 p.m. Ashfield Farmers Market, In front of
Ashfield Historical Society Museum, 457 Main St. Information:
(413) 628-0198; [email protected].
ASHFIELD
Village Fair set: Village
HEATH
fair benefits the Community Hall upgrade. Silent raffle
of baskets/gifts, natural foods,
Avon products, crafts, handmade
rugs, handmade doll clothes, tag
sale items, and more. The Ladies
Aid Fair at the Church will offer
craft items, baked goods, “white
elephant” table and quilt raffle.103 p.m.; lunch, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Heath Senior Center.
Tag space available outdoors on the
Common,$5, and in the Hall, $10.
Heath Village Fair, Community
Hall. Information: 413-337-6680.
SUNDAY,
JULY
30
Concert:
Eclectec jazz
with Jill: Jill Connolly and the Vermont Jazz Center Quintet take the
stage to celebrate release of her
debut album, “Venus in Transit.”
7:30 p.m. $15/advance, $18/at the
door, $10/kids. Memorial Hall,, 51
Bridge St. (above Shelburne town
offices). Information: www.venusintransit.info or www.vtjazz.org.
SHELBURNE FALLS
Antiwar activist
visits: Cindy
Sheehan will come to Brattleboro.
1 p.m., the common. Traprock
Peace Center, 103a Keets Road.
Information: (413) 773-742; traprockpeace.org.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt.
TUESDAY,
AUGUST
1
Lecture: Basic economics: Second in
a series about finances and ecoGREENFIELD
Accepting takeout orders
Call ahead for fast service
L i ve m u s i c /
Swing Caravan: Northampton-based acoustic
Gypsy jazz group returns.8 p.m.
Free; tips appreciated. Mocha
Maya’s, 47 Bridge St. Information:
(413) 625-6292; www.myspace.com/
mochamayas.
2
Theater: Urin e t o w n : N i ck
Waynelovich and Ja’Duke take
on the contemporary ensemble
musical.8 p.m. Through Saturday,
August 05. $12; $10, under 12 or
over 65. Ja’Duke Productions, Shea
Theatre, 71 Avenue A. Information:
(413) 863-2281; www.jaduke.com.
WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST
Concert: Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry on
tap: 7:30 p.m. $14; $12, advance.
Watermelon Wednesdays at West
Whately Congregational Church,
Corner, Williamsburg and Conway
roads. Information: (413) 665-3741;
www.watermelonwednesdays.com.
WHATELY
THURSDAY,
AUGUST
3
Poetry reading open mic
night: All poets within driving
distance: come and contribute or
just listen. Beginners, published
authors... all are welcome.7:30 p.m.
Free. Mocha Maya’s, 47 Bridge St.
SHELBURNE FALLS
FRIDAY,
AUGUST
4
Movie and cartoons: Buster Keaton, Jim Woodring: MASS MoCA’s
outdoor film series continues with
high art animation when guitarist
Bill Frisell takes on two of Buster
Keaton’s most celebrated shorts,
Obie- and Bessie-award-winning
filmmaker, Bill Morrison and maverick cartoonist Jim Woodring’s
animations. 8 p.m. $26; $22, advance. MassMOCA, 87 Marshall
www.massmoca.org.
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session, sliding scale. Greenfield
Community College, 270 Main St.
gcc.mass.edu.
THE
BEST
SHELBURNE FALLS
TURNERS FALLS
Franklin County
youth bring
Shakespeare to life
SHELBURNE FALLS—Franklin County Action Corporation
Youth Programs is sponsoring an
all-youth directed and performed
production of Shakespeare’s A
Midsummer Night’s Dream on
Aug. 4-6 and 11-12.
Caitlin Freed, a seventeenyear-old Shelburne Falls resident,
was the happy recipient of an
arts grant from the FCAC Youth
Programs to stage and direct the
play.
“This production of Shakespere’s A Midsummer Night’s
Dream is really all about language and love,” said Freed. “It’s
about language in that we had
the cast rewrite portions of the
script in their own language so
we could contrast the Elizabethan English with the modern
American English. It’s a virtual
love affair between the two languages. Shakespeare, after all, is
all about the language. And it’s
about love in that it explores a
wide range of universal ideas of
love: love as drug, love as magic,
love as parental control, love
as mischief and love as battle
between the sexes. It’s a truly
magical play.
“And, the cast is terrific,” she
continued. “This is a really talented group. Our cast ranges in
age from 9 to 19. And they have
come up with lots of creative
interpretations of the story as
we have been swimming around
in this great pool of love. I think
the audience will be enchanted
by this production.”
Proceeds of the Ashfield performances will go to an Ashfield
organization that services youth
and proceeds of the Shelburne
Falls performances will go to a
Shelburne Falls organization that
serves young people.
Performances from Aug. 4-5
are at 7:30 p.m. in Ashfield Town
Hall. The Aug. 6 performance is
at 2 p.m. in Ashfield. The Aug. 11
and 12 performances are at 7:30
p.m. in Shelburne’s Memorial
Hall on Bridge Street. A donation
of $5 will be gratefully received
at the door at all performances.
IN MEDICAL CARE
“
Franklin put a full medical
team together, when my
health was falling apart.
”
An independent healthcare research agency that
reviews and analyzes patient satisfaction for more
than 1,000 hospitals nationwide, recently honored
our cardiology, radiology, oncology, intensive care,
emergency and behavioral health services for
ranking over 90% in patient satisfaction with
respect to quality and service.
Franklin’s physicians come from the top medical
schools in the nation and abroad. They choose
to practice here where they enjoy close ties with
their patients and colleagues. This means our
community receives a high level of medical care
that most would expect to find only at a big city
medical center.
Our doctors are currently accepting new patients.
Call us at (413) 773-8557 for more information.
I first went to Franklin Medical Center, I was having difficulty breathing
“When
and thought I was having a simple allergic reaction to medication. Then things
got scary. It turned out that I had a severe infection that was causing complex
medical problems for me, including a high fever, double pneumonia, and an
abscess in my spinal column.
During ten days in the hospital, and before I was finally out of the woods, I was
under the care of several highly skilled physicians from the Emergency Medicine,
Pulmonology, Cardiology, Radiology, Pathology, Rheumatology, Neurosurgery, and
Hospital Medicine departments. There were also compassionate nurses, nurses’
aides, radiology, laboratory and respiratory technologists, dietitians, and finally,
a great physical therapist, who literally got me on my feet again.
As a health care professional myself, I know how critical it is to be cared for by top
notch people at a facility with the latest diagnostic equipment and technology.
To have a whole team of them here at my hospital and at my side, well, I feel so
thankful. Who knows what might have happened if all these experts hadn’t been
available so close to where I live.
”
164 High Street • Greenfield, MA
413-773-8557 • baystatehealth.com/fmc
MARCIA CONNORS, ORANGE
radiology tech and active church member
– Marcia Connors
Puppet
production
to return
SHELBURNE FALLS—The
Mettawee River Theatre Company returns for its only Franklin
County area appearance on Sunday, Aug. 6 to perform Valentyne
& Orson, hosted by Arms Library
as part of its summer reading
program.
The large-scale puppet production will take place on the lawn
of the Buckland Shelburne Elementary on Mechanic Street at
8 p.m. Still the only free outdoor
theater in the county, the play
will be held inside the school in
case of rain.
Mettawee is the critically
acclaimed company, under the
direction of Ralph Lee, which in
previous years has entertained
hundreds of local residents with
its productions of Psyche, The Tempest, The Caravan Of Dreams, Stone
Monkey Banished, The Dancing
Fox, and last year, The Caucasian
Chalk Circle.
This summer’s show is drawn
from a 15 th century French romance. It is the story of Valentyne, a courageous young fellow
who was found by King Pepin
in the forest when he was a
baby. When a ferocious Wildman threatens Pepin’s domain,
Valentyne sets out to deal with
him. Their encounter turns from
a battle into the beginning of a
friendship, and the Wildman is
given the name Orson because
he was raised by bears. The two
heroes encounter villains and
fools, charming ladies, an onery
giant and a hungry bear as they
seek to determine the nature of
Valentyne’s origins.
The production will incorporate many puppets, masks and
other visual elements, and original, live music as Mettawee conjures up the pageantry of court,
castles and dark forests alive in
the medieval imagination.
Lee adapted the text for Valentyne & Orson from two major
sources: a 1505 English translation by Henry Watson of the 1489
French original prose version and
an early 18th century English ballad that tells the story in rhyming
quatrains.
“It’s a compelling story about
achieving harmony with nature
by finding the courage to embrace one’s opposite,” Lee said.
Actors Kim Gambino, Robert
Ierari, Ian Lassiter, Tom Marion,
Jan-Peter Pedross and Clea Rivera will play multiple roles.
The production will feature an
original musical score composed
by Neal Kirkwood and performed
by musicians Corey King on
trombone and Barbara Benary on
violin. Casey Ompton designed
the costumes.
The company, founded by Lee
in 1975, creates original theater
productions that incorporate
masks, giant figures, puppets
and other visual elements with
live music, movement and text,
drawing on myths, legends and
folklore of the world’s many cultures for its material. Celebrating
its 30th anniversary in 2005, the
company is committed to bringing theater to people who may
have little or no access to live
professional performances.
In his design and direction
Lee seeks to create vivid theatrical moments with economy
and elegance. This search for an
evocative simplicity of image
and Mettawee’s commitment to
making theater accessible to the
widest possible audience through
its outdoor performances give the
theater company its particular
character.
Lee first created puppets as a
child growing up in Middlebury,
Vermont. Two of Lee’s Mettawee
productions have been honored
with American Theatre Wing
Design Awards. Under Lee’s direction, Mettawee has received
two Citations for Excellence from
UNIMA, the international puppetry organization. Additional
awards to Lee include a 1996
Dance Theatre Workshop Bessie
Award for “sustained achievement as a mask maker and theatre designer without equal.” In
2003, he received a Guggenheim
Fellowship, one of the nation’s
most prestigious honors. He is
currently on the faculty of New
York University.
Support for the production—
the twelfth here by Mettawee—
has been provided by the Friends
of the Arms Library.
Please bring a blanket or
lawn chair to sit on and please
remember to leave your pets
at home. Picnicking before the
show is encouraged. Stay late
and talk to the actors and musicians and touch the puppets and
instruments.
For further information call the
library Mondays and Thursdays
from 1-8 p.m. or Saturday from
11 a.m.-3 p.m. at (413) 623-0306
or e-mail [email protected].
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OBITUARIES
Richard B. Coombs, Sr.
Mary Martin, 75
COLRAIN—Richard Brown
Coombs, Sr, of Wilmington, died
June 30.
He was born in Colrain, MA,
July 3, 1920 the youngest son of
William Henry and Nettie Brown
Coombs.
Coombs graduated from Arms
Academy in 1938, enlisted in the
Army in 1941 and rose to the
rank of Colonel in the regular
Army during his 26 year career
in logistics. He served during
WW II in North Africa, Italy, and
the Balkans, serving at the US
Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
The Korean War took him to
Japan and Korea where he was
a staff officer, QM Section, HQ
Army Forces Far East. In Vietnam
he served on the Joint Staff in
Saigon. While in the service he
attended Georgetown University
and graduated from the Advance
Course, QM School and other
specialist courses.
When he retired from the Army
in 1967, he joined the staff of
Thomas Jefferson University in
Philadelphia in the Purchasing
Dept, retiring in 1986 as Director
of Material Management.
He was life member of the Retired
Officers Association, the Colrain
Historical Society, the Arms
Academy Alumni Association,
VFW Post 3857, Colrain.
I n Wi l m i n g t o n , h e wa s a
member of the Cape Fear Country
Club, St. John's Episcopal Church,
and a volunteer at the SeamanÕs
Center.
He is survived by his wife,
Marian Calder Coombs, his son,
Richard Brown (Rick) Coombs, Jr.
of Wilmington, daughter-in-law,
Betty Coombs Cohen of Conway,
Arkansas, and a granddaughter,
Evelyn Leigh Coombs.
He is also survived by in-laws
Robert and Elizabeth Calder; and
brothers-in-law Robert (Melva)
Calder, William (Lynn) Calder,
and Keith (Alice) Calder.
He is also survived by nieces
Betty C. Clancy (Ed), Kathryn &
Caroline, Kelly and Emily (Little
Stuff) Calder; Nicole Coombs,
Karen Herzig (Charlie), Jean C.
Temple (Roger), Joyce C. Graves
(Phil); and by nephews Russell
Coombs (Sandi), Matthew Clancy,
Rusty Coombs, Eric Herzig, and
Scott Coombs.
He was preceded in death by
his first wife, Jeanne Matscheck
Coombs, his son Michael M.
Coombs, and his daughter-in-law
JoDeane Coombs.
A memorial service took place
July 9 at St. John’s Episcopal
Church with the Rev. Robert
Morrison officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may
be made to St. John's Episcopal
Church or a charity of one's
choice.
SHELBURNE--Mary (Meadow)
Martin, 75, of 770 Devils Ridge
Lane, Tryon, N.C., died July 3
at 106 Colrain-Shelburne Road,
where she was visiting her daughter, Kathleen M. Nicholson.
Mary Martin was born in Norfolk, Va., Dec. 8, 1930, the daughter of Harold L. and Edith DeVoe
(Bogert) Martin.
Before moving to Tryon in 1990,
the family lived in Cohasset,
Mass. for 16 years. Her husband,
Tyrone G. Martin, is a retired past
commanding officer of the SS
Constitution.
She was a member of First Congregational Church in Tryon.
Survivors besides her husband
and her daughter include two
sons: Cameron M. Martin, of Falmouth, Maine and Guy J. Martin
of Braintree, Mass. She leaves
a granddaughter, Errin T. McDonald; two grandsons, John G.
McDonald and Theodore Martin;
a great-granddaughter, Penelope
Rose McDonald-O'Neil, and several nieces and nephews.
Following cremation, services
will take place at the convenience
of the family.
Donations in Mary Martin's
memory may be made to Hospice
of Franklin County, 329 Conway
St., Greenfield, MA 01301.
Alvin M. Hillman, 54
HEATH--Alvin M. Hillman, 54,
of 77 Sadoga Rd., died July 16
at Baystate Medical Center in
Springfield.
Born in Greenfield on Feb. 21,
1952, he was the son of Smead
and Evelyn (Spencer) Hillman.
He was a 1972 graduate of the
former Greenfield Vocational
School.
Upon graduation, he was
drafted into the Army, where he
served for six years, primarily on
a base in Germany. He remained
in Germany for four years after
being honorably discharged on
June 20, 1978.
He was employed as a mechanic by Dillon Chevrolet in
Greenfield for many years before
becoming a self-employed excavation contractor, mechanic and
logger. He employed his many
talents "mostly working for and
with his community of Heath,"
his family writes.
He leaves his father, of Heath;
and two sisters: Linda Chapin
and her husband, Don, of Northfield and Sandra McCloud of
Charlemont. He leaves nieces
and nephews Tyler and Brandy
McCloud and Joshua and Molly
Chapin. He also leaves aunts,
uncles, cousins and friends.
A funeral service will take
place Thursday, July 20 at 10:30
a.m. at the Smith-Kelleher Funeral Home, 40 Church St.,
Shelburne Falls. Burial will follow in North Heath Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made either to
the American Cancer Society, 40
Bobala Rd., Holyoke, MA 01040
(please note "Alvin Hillman" on
check memo) or to the oncology
department of Baystate Medical
Center, 3400 Main St., Springfield
MA 01107.
Smith-Kelleher Funeral Home
Louis Smith, 94
HEATH--Louis Wayland Smith,
94, of 239 Rt. 8A North, died July
7 at Charlene Manor Extended
Care Facility in Greenfield.
He was born in Heath, September 6, 1911, the son of K. Paul and
Edith (Gilbert) Smith.
He attended grammar school
in Heath.
Prior to retirement in 1978 he
was employed by L.S. Starrett Co.
in Athol for several years.
He lived in Orange for 25 years
in a home he built himself before
moving to North Adams for a
short time after his retirement.
He returned to Heath in 1984.
He was also employed at the
Lane Construction Co., building
bridges after the 1938 hurricane,
and as a farm worker on various
farms in Heath.
"He was very knowledgeable
about Heath history, and many
people sought him out for knowledge," his family writes.
He enjoyed carpentry and gardening, and until five years ago,
he was a maple sugarer.
Smith was a member of St.
Joseph Catholic Church in
Shelburne Falls.
Survivors include three brothers: Floyd E., of Grafton, N.Y.;
Daniel J., of Canton, Maine; and
Donald H., of Fort St. Lucie, Fla.
He leaves two sisters: Vivian
L. Hazlett of Dover Fox Croft,
Maine and Lucy Burnett of Peoria, Ariz. He also leaves several
nieces and nephews in the area
as well as grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces and
great-grandnephews.
Three brothers -- Frederick A.,
Marshall E., and Gilbert C. -- died
earlier.
A Liturgy of Christian Burial
took place on July 12 at St. Joseph's Church, with Rev. John A.
Roach, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in the West
Branch Cemetery in Colrain.
Donations in Louis Smith's
memory may be made to St. Joseph Catholic Memorial Fund,
34 Monroe Ave., Shelburne Falls,
MA 01370
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Fleeing Peabody
Graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music in 1980 with
a degree in education, the North
Shore expatriate found budgets
for teaching jobs drying up in
the wake of recent Proposition
2 ½ legislation. With a fluency in
saxophone and clarinet, Kuklinski played reed notes at resorts,
summer stock theater and touring shows before moving full-time
to hammers and nails.
“I knew on some level, either
conscious or unconscious, that
I just didn’t have the fire in my
belly to do what I needed to do
to be a professional musician,”
he said during an interview at
his workshop.
Seeking a life away from the
cluttered high-rise landscape of
the Boston area, he and his wife
at the time, a Springfield native,
found harmony in the mid-1980s
in the Deerfield River Valley.
Fourteen years ago he converted
a 2,000-square-foot building at
Jay Healy’s farm into a woodshop.
The antique building, highlighted
with Greek Revival columns to
either side of its entrance, originally served for egg sorting and
packing.
“The detailing on this is better
than on my house,” Kuklinski
joked.
In a back room is a rare sight—
a pair of two-inch-thick, two-foot-
wide, unblemished pine slabs
from a tree as much as 120 years
in age, hewn from woodlands just
to the north of Healy’s sawmill.
For the uninitiated, such wood is
now only found in quantity on the
floors of homes built generations
ago. Any carpenter would be
briefly hypnotized by the vision.
The wood is destined to become
tables.
“You can’t buy it,” he said,
describing the pine. “There’s
no lumberyard that can carry
anything like this, even specialty
lumber yards don’t usually carry
this.”
A few feet away, a polished
3/8-inch, sugar maple slab, as
tall as a man and older than the
pine, leans on a wall. Less than
20 pounds in weight, the vertical
section offers a botanical history
of recorded sunlight. Like viewing a map of Ireland, it shows
the sinews of strength and accommodations to age. Kuklinski
points out where the compression
from the weight of a large branch
created “fiddleback” patterns
below on the main trunk. Opposite to the branch are split fibers,
“crotch” patterns, where the
wood interlocked to support the
branch. Their abstraction brings
to mind aerial views of desert
mountains.
“It’s very three-dimensional,”
the woodworker said. “When it’s
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really fixed up and laying flat, if
the light is right, it just shimmers.
It looks like you could reach right
down into the wood and feel the
waves and bumps...One reason
I like making slabs is that they
have a story.”
These ancient trees frequently
succumb as windfalls during
storms.
Occasionally Kuklinski is able
to save them from the ignominy
of a landfill or the fate of the
wood chipper. As slabs, they take
on an afterlife as tabletops.
Restoring antiquity
When Kuklinski is not working
on his Hall Tavern Farm collection of antique replications for
Historic Deerfield, or creating
custom furniture on commission,
he’s restoring a 19th century government building in Washington,
D.C.
“Working in D.C. is interesting,
it’s a whole different mindset,”
he said. “On one level you have
the absolute, finest workmanship.
The quality of buildings in D.C.
is phenomenal...and at the same
time, they tried to tear this building down twice, but they stopped
both times, realizing that it would
cost more to tear it down than to
fix it up.”
On yet another level, the building’s interior, echoing the French
Empire style of carved stone,
brick and ornate cast iron suffered the 20th century indignity
Charlemont
woodworker
Tom Kuklinski
and one of his
finished pieces.
SFI photo/Jeff Potter
of fluorescent light bars screwed
into frescoed ceilings. Kuklinski’s
task is to assist in stripping layers
of paint in two rooms to reveal
the interior’s original, highly
detailed mahogany woodwork.
“It’s a huge project,” he said. “A
lot of it is being done with toothbrushes and dental picks because
there are a lot of carvings.”
Largely self-taught, Kuklinski’s
portfolio of work ranges from
walnut liquor cabinets and desks
made from tropical hardwoods to
a coffee table based on Moorish
patterns with geometrical inlays
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of mahogany, curly maple and
three different varieties of satin
wood.
“A lot of the work at this level
is really trying to listen to the
client...” he said. “A lot of being
a musician is about listening and
I find that that’s something that
translates well into what I do
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