A Becket couple is crowdsourcing for information about their home and their town's early history
Now, they're hoping a modern technique will help them uncover their town and home's early past: crowdsourcing.
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Eagle Archives, Jan. 18, 1967: From church to Grange Hall to library: The several lives of one building
BECKET — The conversion of the Becket Grange Hall for use by the Becket Athenaeum marks the third use to which this building on Route 8 in North Becket has
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Wood-boring bug has damaged a Becket church. Congregation asked to dig deep to fix things.
BECKET â A local congregation is rallying the town to save its historic house of worship ravaged by a wood-boring bug. The 40-member First Congregational Church needs to raise $200,000 toward renovations and repairs of the 171-year-old church, which is being eaten away by the powderpost beetle. Temporary structural supports have been installed to stabilize the bell tower. A study approved by voters at the 2020 annual town meeting found that more than 50 percent of the wood in the building was hollowed out or damaged. STEPHANIE ZOLLSHAN â THE BERKS...
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