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“We need pens,” someone calls out. “Where are the pens?” The vaccinators have been readying themselves for the past hour, rushing to fill the van with syringes, signs and doses of the Moderna vaccine. The details still are coming together at the last possible moment as the van pulls up in a church parking lot ringed by white blossoms. Scribes grab clipboards and pull on jackets before they head outside, where several cars already have pulled in for the Friday morning clinic. Zenani Santos, 19, waits in one of those cars. Santos, one of just over a dozen people registered f...

PITTSFIELD — Her words captured the power of memory to create the eternal: As long as you remember someone, they never die. They were spoken a few years ago by the Rev. M. Louise Williamson as she eulogized the Rev. Willard Durant, under whom she had served as pastor’s associate at Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in Pittsfield. She spoke of the power of their lives, which intersected with her own after she moved from the Deep South to Pittsfield, where she forged a path of faith, family and fellowship. Williamson died last month, at age 87, but is held close in the minds of her ma...