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Join us for a celebration of local baseball history!

The WHM will be hosting an event focusing on local baseball history on Saturday, October 16 from 11-1 pm. Our temporary exhibit on the history of baseball in Williamstown, presented by Baseball in the Berkshires will be coming to a close in the next few weeks. Please join us on the 16th for an event featuring:

  • A Q&A and remarks from prominent local baseball figures
  • A chance to meet baseball pros and Williamstown natives Jonah Bayliss and Ryan Cameron
  • A guided tour of the temporary exhibit
  • Refreshments
  • … and more!

The event will be held at the museum, 32 New Ashford Road in Williamstown, rain or shine! We hope to see you there.

Please see a flyer for this event here.

October 14: WHM’s Next History Book Group Meeting

Back to school season is a great time to join WHM’s history book group!

On Thursday, October 14 at 1 pm we will be meeting via Zoom to discuss Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold and Murder on the Erie Canal by Jack Kelly. The book offers an intriguing synthesis of American cultural and economic developments in the early 19th century, all culminating with the completion of the Erie Canal, which has shaped our region. Copies are available through your local library or at most bookstores!

A message from the Board of Directors

We regret that the Museum’s August 28 lecture, “Native Americans in Williamstown” was cancelled.   We believe Dustin Griffin’s lecture, as written and as always, is well documented, respectful, and culturally sensitive, and deserves to be heard or read.  For this reason we are attaching here a link to the lecture (except for the slides).

We welcome and encourage people of diverse backgrounds to approach the Museum about presenting future lectures.

Board of Directors
Williamstown Historical Museum