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The venerable beacon of hospitality in Stockbridge is throwing a community celebration to mark the 250th anniversary of the inn’s earliest incarnation as a store, small tavern and stagecoach stop
Stockbridge Plain Street was a North-South connector road, there were stagecoaches as well as Revolutionary War troops moving through the village. Ethan Allen stopped and bought a knife at Bingham’s store—perhaps on his way to Ticonderoga. Indeed, in the 18th century, Stockbridge was considered—you guessed it—a destination.
CONNECTIONS: Widow Bingham Tavern In 1781, Anna Bingham became the first female “victualler, inn-holder, taverner, and seller of wine” in Berkshire County. About Connections: Love it or hate it, history is a map. Those who hate history think it irrelevant; many who love history think it escapism. In truth, history is the clearest road map to how we got here: America in the 21st century. Every historian owes a debt to those who came before. We rest upon and build upon their work. This column owes a debt to an exceptional researcher, now deceased, Lion Miles. (See New England Quarterly, Ju...
joining us from dc water is alan, to tell us how long do you thing it will take to clean this up. a lot of people have been bailing out on massachusetts as a work around but those bailout routes are taking a beating. so good morning alan. >> good morning julie thanks for having me on the show. >> thank you. so how long do you thing this will take to clean up before we can get traffic moving south on connecticut >> which we don't have an exact answer at this time even though we are on the scene we are working to isolate the exact location of the break. we so where the pavement is buck...