Self Guided Tour of Williamstown

Photo Preservation Workshop for Members and Friends at the WHM

Photo Preservation Workshop

with Collections Curator, Laura Staneff, MA

Saturday, May 9th,  11 am at the WHM

Laura can help tell us when this photo was taken and how we can best preserve it! Bring a photo to our workshop to learn what you can do to preserve your photos too!
Laura can help tell us when this photo was taken and how we can best preserve it!
Bring a photo to our workshop to learn what you can do to preserve your photos too!

Do you have a collection of old family photos that are fading fast?  What can you do to protect them?  Should you tape photos into your scrapbooks?  Our freelance collections curator, Laura Downey Staneff, will answer your questions.  In this workshop Laura will discuss different types of photographic processes, their mounts, and how they deteriorate as they age.  She’ll also discuss how photographs should be displayed and stored.  Did you know that displaying a high quality facsimile reproduction of your favorite family photo is a great way to preserve the original?  Workshop participants are invited to bring individual photographs and plenty of questions for discussion about how to preserve your precious photos.  Continue reading Photo Preservation Workshop for Members and Friends at the WHM

Pat Leach ~ 1765 Saturday, April 18th, 11:00 am, Milne Library

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Pat Leach ~ 1765

Saturday, April 18th, 11:00 am, Milne Library

1765 is the year the settlement of West Hoosac became Williamstown!  In 2015, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Williamstown’s incorporation. Although, in 1765 our town had yet to produce any major writers, painters, musicians, ballet dancers, or soccer stars, there is still a lot of history to talk about!  

Williamstown residents of 1765 may not have left us a literary or artistic legacy, but they did leaves us a valuable and informative Proprietors Book, which miraculously did not burn in the Meeting House Fire of 1866.  The Proprietor’s Book will be our point of departure for an illustrated fly-over of the year 1765 in Williamstown, Berkshire County, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as well as Boston, London, and Paris.

Jim Kolesar ~ The History of Weston Field Saturday, March 28th, 11:00 am, Weston Field

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The History of Weston Field  

Saturday, March 28th, 11:00 am, at Weston Field –

Weston Field, one of the college’s two outdoor sports facilities, embodies much of the history of athletics at Williams. Come hear about the facts and the lore associated with Weston, from its 1884 acquisition to its 2014 renovation and expansion.  There will be time for a tour of the facility with this talk.

Jim Kolesar, Williams class of 1972, has served as the college’s chief public affairs officer since 1984, following a career in journalism.  Since then he has chaired the college’s Communications Advisory Group and served as a member of the Advisory Group on Admissions and Financial Aid, the Strategic Planning Coordinating Committee, the Diversity Initiatives Steering Committee, and as chair and member of several search committees. He has also taught several Winter Study courses on journalism and on college communications.