Clark Art, Morgan Library, the Mount Present Discussion on Belle Da Costa Greene

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, April 13 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute, the Morgan Library and Museum, and The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, present "Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy," an examination of the inspiring life and career of the Morgan Library's first librarian and director Belle da Costa Greene. 
 
This free event takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium.
 
Philip S. Palmer and Erica Ciallela, co-curators of the Morgan Library's centennial exhibition Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy, discuss their favorite objects in the show; examine Greene's life against the backdrop of national and institutional histories; and talk about the overlapping social circles of Greene, Bernard Berenson, and Edith Wharton. Five years in the making, this powerful and popular exhibition presents new research and is accompanied by a catalogue which will be available for purchase during a book signing after the event.
 
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. 

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Neal Touts Federal Aid to Support Renovation of Symbol of Democracy

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff

Congressman Richard Neal looks at historic photos of the 19th-century meetinghouse during a tour Thursday. 
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A longtime Democratic member of Congress on Thursday lauded the democratic ideals embodied in a local landmark.
 
U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, was in town to celebrate a $500,000 federal earmark to support the renovation of the Williamstown Meetinghouse, a project that will make the iconic structure more compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and more accessible to members of the community.
 
Referencing the 1869 structure's connection to the town's 1765 founding (the first two meetinghouses burned down), Neal drew a line from Thursday's celebration to a much better known party happening at the other end of the commonwealth this week.
 
"I hope I'm going to be there on Saturday morning, that's my plan, to be in Concord and Lexington for the acknowledgement of what happened 250 years ago, because that's what we honor with the Meetinghouse: Representative democracy, where people have the right to assemble and petition their government and to make their voices heard," Neal said in prepared remarks on the meetinghouse steps.
 
"That's what the meetinghouse meant. It was very much in the Puritan history. After a church was constructed, a Congregational church, generally, nearby, there was the library and the meetinghouse. It's all over New England in these beautiful little towns that I represent."
 
Since 2013, Williamstown has been on that list of towns represented by Neal, a former Springfield mayor who has served in the House of Representatives since 1986. After the 2010 Census, Neal became Williamstown's representative from the newly drawn 1st Congressional District.
 
On Thursday, he was joined on the meetinghouse steps by state Rep. John Barrett III, D-North Adams, Sherwood Guernsey of the Berkshire Democratic Brigades and Carolyn Greene, president of the Williamstown Meetinghouse Preservation Fund.
 
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