Filmmaker, actor, author John Sayles reads from his new historical novel "Crucible" about automobile titan Henry Ford and "the spirit and especially the conflicts of breakneck industrial progress." Sayles talks with documentary archival researcher Rich Remsberg at the North Adams Public Library.
Dr. Bob Donahue, Mt. Wilson Observatory astronomer & member of the Northern Berkshire Astronomical Society, talks about what's happening in the sky this fall. Meteor showers, galaxies, the "water" constellations, and more!
Carl Byron, author of "A Pinprick of Light: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Its Hoosac Tunnel," and co-founder of the Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, discusses the history of the Hoosac Tunnel.
Industrialist William Arthur Gallup was president & treasurer of Arnold Print Works, a turn-of-the-century world leader in the design & printing of fabrics, located on what is now the MASS MoCA complex. His biographer and great-grandson, Samuel M. Trudel tells the story of Arnold Print Works at the North Adams Public Library.
Historian and graphic designer Samuel M. Trudel tells the second chapter in the history of Arnold Print Works, here focusing on the textile factory's ownership by Dr. Samuel Jones between 1915 and 1942.
