Berkshire Athenaeum Celebrates Women's History Month

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. The Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield's public library, is observing Women's History Month this March with displays from the library's adult and children's collections, as well as a list of recommended readings.

"The athenaeum collections offer works by and about women throughout history and today —their diverse stories, experiences, and accomplishments. We encourage readers to select materials from our physical and digital collections that speak to these themes," said Outreach Librarian Alicia Hyman.

Women's History Month began in 1980 as a week in March proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter, who remarked that "too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength, and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well."

In 1987 Congress declared the weeklong event a month-long observance in perpetuity.

The athenaeum is open 9 a.m. -9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Friday; and 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday. For more information or questions about accessing library services or materials, please call 413-499-9480, Ext. 4 or email info@pittsfieldlibrary.org.

Fiction:

Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale (FICTION Atwood)

Arafat, Zaina - You Exist Too Much (FICTION Arafat)

Barry, Quan - We Ride upon Sticks (FICTION Barry)

Butler, Octavia - Parable of the Sower (SCI FI Butler)

Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine (FICTION Erdrich)

Heti, Sheila - Motherhood (FICTION Heti)

Kirby, Gwen - Shit Cassandra Saw (FICTION Kirby)

Miller, Madeline - Circe: A Novel (FICTION Miller)

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Gods of Jade and Shadow (FICTION Moreno-Garcia)

Ozeki, Ruth - A Tale for the Time Being (FICTION Ozeki)

Peters, Torrey - Detransition, Baby (FICTION Peters, Torrey)

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple (FICTION Walker)

Yoder, Rachel - Nightbitch (FICTION Yoder)

Nonfiction:

Bates, Laura - Everyday Sexism (305.42 Bates)

brown, adrienne maree - Pleasure Activism (170 Brown)

Brown, Keah- The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me (813 Brown)

The Crunk Feminist Collection (305.42 Crunk)

Davis, Angela Y. - Angela Davis: An Autobiography (B Davis)

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong - She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman (BTubman)

Duster, Michelle - Ida B. the Queen The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells (B Wells)

hooks, bell- Ain't I a Woman (305.48 Hooks)

Jenkins, Morgan- This Will Be My Undoing Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (305 48896 Jenkins)

Jewell. Hannah - She Caused a Riot 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, & Massively Crushed It (305 409 Jewell)

Kendall, Mikki-Hood Feminism (305.42 Kendall)

Mailhot, Terese Marie-Heart Berries: A Memoir (813 Mailhot)

Martin, Wednesday - Untrue Why Nearly Everything We Believe about Women, Lust, and

Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free (306,736 Martin) Morrison, Toni - The Source of Self-Regard Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (814 Morrison)

Quinn, Bridget - She Votes How US Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next (324.623 Quinn)

Shields Charles J-Lorraine Hansberry The Life behind A Raisin in the Sun (B Hansberry) Simone, Nina- I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone (B Simone) Sjunneson 1-Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism (3624 Sjunneson) Solnit, Rebecca - Recollections of my Nonexistence (813 Solnit)

Talusan Meredith- Fairest: A Memoir (B Talusan) Valenti, Jessica-Sex Object (813 Valenti)

West, Lindy-Shrill (817 West)

Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own (824 Woolf)

Zimmerman, Jess - Women and Other Monsters (155.333 Zimmerman]

Poetry:

Angelou Maya- The Complete Poetry (811 Angelou)

Clifton, Lucille-How to Carry Water Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (811 Clifton):

Giovanni Nikki-Chasing Utopia A Hybrid (811 Giovanni)

Gorman, Amanda - Call Us What We Carry (YA 811 Gorman)

Rich Adrienne- Collected Poems: 1950-2012 (811 Rich)

DVDs:

Frida (DVD Frida)

Hidden Figures (DVD Hidden) A League of Their Own (DVD League)

Little Women (2018) (DVD Little)

9 to 5(DVD Nine)

Set It Off (DVD Set)

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Protecting Your Assets: How FDIC and DIF Protect Your Deposits

Submitted by Dana Robb02:39PM / Wednesday, March 12, 2025

In this time of economic uncertainty, keeping your money secure should be a top priority. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Depositors Insurance Fund (DIF) play crucial roles in safeguarding your deposits.

FDIC Insurance: Your First Line of Defense

More than just a sticker on the door at your bank, the FDIC, an independent government agency, provides insurance coverage for deposits at member banks. As of 2025, the FDIC insures up to $250,000 per depositor, per institution, and ownership category. This means if you have two different types of accounts (e.g. savings and a CD) at the same bank, you only receive $250,000 of insurance for these accounts even if you have more than this amount deposited.

FDIC insurance is automatic for covered accounts at member banks for individual and business customers, meaning there's no cost to you for the protection. Covered accounts include:

Checking accounts
Savings accounts
Money market deposit accounts (MMDAs)
Certificates of deposit (CDs)
Certain retirement accounts, such as IRAs invested in CDs

In instances where an account has more than one owner, the $250,000 coverage per ownership still applies.

For example, a joint account with two owners could be insured up to $500,000 ($250,000 per owner). Similarly, a trust account with three beneficiaries could be insured up to $750,000. The only limitation is that the maximum insurance coverage for a trust owner with five or more beneficiaries is $1,250,000 per owner for all trust accounts held at the same bank. You can add more than five beneficiaries, but the coverage will not exceed $1,250,000.

Depositors Insurance Fund (DIF): Extra Protection for Massachusetts residents

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