Category: Current Events

250th Town Celebration. Music/Games/Food/Drink. Southlawn Cemetery Tours.

FRIDAY, JULY 3rd, 2026 12:00-4:00PM

32 NEW ASHFORD ROAD, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA

12:00 – 4:00 PM Family Fun Fest at Williamstown Historical Muse um. Historic tours, music, games, and prizes! Food and drink available for purchase. Rain or shine. Programming features:

  • Barrington Stage Company bringing patriotic songs and performances
  • Green Mountain Boys with family-friendly drill and musket demonstrations
  • Berkshire Fife & Drum Corps
  • Flatbed Jazz Band
  • 1976 American Flag on display
  • Singing of the Star-Spangled Banner
  • Reading of the Founding Documents
  • Races, Games, and Activities for kids of all ages
  • Walking Tour of Southlawn Cemetery
  • Self-Guided Tour of 1776 Williamstown
  • Vendors include Store at Five Corners Wood-Fired Pizza, Cricket Creek Farm, and North Adams Lions Club Food Truck

Annual Meeting. “Reading Frederick Douglass Together: Berkshire County Lasting Legacies”

SATURDAY, JUNE 20th, 2026 11:00AM

32 NEW ASHFORD ROAD, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA

The book discussion of Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave will take place Thursday, June 18th at 4:00 p.m. at the David and Joyce Milne Public Library in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Similarly, the reading of Douglass’ “What to a slave is the Fourth of July” will take place at the Williamstown Historical Society on Saturday, June 20th at 11:00 a.m.

The Berkshire County tour of historic sites connected to Douglass and the abolitionist movement will take place in Lanesborough, Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts Sunday, June 21st starting at 9 a.m.. Specifically, the Old Meeting House in Pittsfield, Elizabeth Freeman’s statue, and the most recent W.E.B. Dubois statue  at the Mason Public Library.

“Hometown Heroes in the Civil War – Berkshire County.” Dennis Pregent, local historian/author

SATURDAY, MAY 30th, 2026 10:00AM

32 NEW ASHFORD ROAD, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA

Dennis G. Pregent was born and educated in the Berkshires. He joined the Marines in 1965, served six and a half years, and was decorated during his two tours of duty in Vietnam. After being honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant, he attended and graduated from North Adams State College in 1975 (currently Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts) and received his MBA from the University of Massachusetts in 1977. For over thirty-five years, until his retirement, he worked in the human resources field serving as an international vice-president for the Evenflo/Spalding and ConAgra companies.

Pregent’s first book, The Boys of St Joe’s 65 in the Vietnam War (December 2019), was followed by Born in the Berkshires (October 2021). Berkshire Patriots: Stories of Sacrifice is his third book. His fourth book, Berkshire Heroes in WWII – With Courage and Honor, was released in 2024.