Katrina Stockton’s Sewing History Museum will open Friday in the Chapman-Noble House in historic Midtown. The museum’s collection of more than 400 sewing machines date from the mid-1800s and ...

GREENFIELD — Little Orphan Annie may be famous in comic strips and movies, but she was first near and dear to the hearts of a Hancock County family who called her Mom and Grandma. Now, a piece of her ...

Many of the stories that I share in this biweekly column are suggested by readers. These are related to a place or event I remember from growing up during the early baby boom years in the Berkshires.

HUNTINGTON -- When Sandy Skidmore uses a treadle sewing machine, it takes her back. She's a young girl in the 1940s, watching her mother and her aunt using the old-fashioned, non-electric machine.