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Dwight resident Walter Jenks, 82, remembers the railroad station that once stood down the street from his home, halfway between the Amherst and Belchertown commons.“The locomotives would come and pick up the milk cans on the platform,” Jenks said of...
Just now I read the lovely column by Michael Carolan on Justus Dwight [“Justus Dwight: Conflicted about Revolution, Constitution,” Gazette, April 21]. It is wonderful to be in touch with the history of the people of this region we love. But as...
Valuable antique firearms and other military items from several museums in New England have been returned — after being stolen a half-century ago. Many of the items will be back on display by this summer.
BELCHERTOWN — In the summer of 1971, Michael Corbett, a visitor to the Stone House Museum, arriving with his girlfriend, signed the guestbook and toured the historic building at a time when it still housed three antique powder horns, including one...
During a ceremony on Monday, the FBI returned stolen artifacts recovered through a cold case investigation to sixteen different museums and historical...