The $20,000 project had been in the planning stages for several years, according to the museum.
Wally spent 30 years on the grounds of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History before being given to the Berkshire Museum in October 1997, as a gift by Carol and Tom McCann. He got his name in a communitywide contest.
Wally, the fiberglass stegosaurus, returned to the Berkshire Museum on Monday, after restoration work at the Louis Paul Jonas Studios in Germantown, N.Y. Wally is a 26-foot-long, 12-foot-tall fiberglass model of a stegosaurus created by the Louis Paul Jonas Studios in Hudson, N.Y. The sculpture was the second made from a mold created for the Sinclair Dinoland pavilion at the New York Worldâs Fair in 1964-1965. The model currently at Berkshire Museum arrived in 1997, after 30 years outside the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Wally was renovated at the Louis Paul Jonas Studios in Germantown and returned to the lawn of the Berkshire Museum. Monday, July 26, 2021. BEN
Police Chief Michael Wynn marches in the procession to Durant Park in June. The chief says he is committed to working with community groups to build a more equitable society. PITTSFIELD, Mass. Pittsfield in 2020 addressed social issues such as police reform, inclusivity, and domestic violence, along with a worldwide pandemic. In June, following weeks of worldwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., at the hands of police, Pittsfield began to look at the Police Department’s use of force policy and saw a number of rallies and protests against police violence.