From the early 1970’s through the 1990’s, the Yahoo Festival was a music and sports festival held at Windsor Lake in North Adams. It was hosted by the then named North Adams State College by the…

What became an internationally-renowned company based in the Berkshires started as the work of just three people in the kitchen of a home in Quincy, MA more than ninety years ago.

In the early summer months of 1947, North Adams’ first radio station, WKOB, went on the air. The idea was devised by three World War II veterans who arrived in this city during the winter of 1946.…

Housed in one of North Adams’ oldest and most architecturally impressive mills, hundreds of workers worked to dye, bleach, and print a variety of textiles as part of North Adams’ cotton manufacturing…

Windsor Lake, located in the scenic hills of North Adams, Massachusetts, is a calm body of water with a history of transformation and importance to the community. The lake known as “Fish Pond” by…

In 1925, the year that William Henry Johnson was first elected as Mayor of North Adams, the City Hall occupied space roughly where the Burger King is located today. A man of frail health when he took…

William Arthur Gallup was a notable figure in North Adams, Massachusetts, where he was president of Arnold Print Works, a leading textile manufacturing company. Gallup was also known for his…

Native Americans were the first to travel along the Mohawk Trail, through the Northern Berkshires and between the Hudson and Connecticut rivers. Today, a scenic drive east from North Adams past the…

Looming over the Deerfield River Valley atop Whitcomb Summit there is a peculiar sight, a strange animal stands stalwart against the harsh winds and freezing temperature that persist at the highest…

It was in 1894 that F.E. Rice, a native of Charlemont and a resident of Florida, came down from the mountain and formed a partnership with E.A. McMillian and began a shoebox manufacturing facility on…