Lectures and events from the Williamstown Historical Museum (formerly known as the Williamstown House of Local History).
Dustin Griffin shares his processes and sources for writing local history, from choosing a topic, gathering evidence, to organizing that evidence into a story. Griffin also demonstrates some of the many printed sources and primary materials that are available to any researcher, many of them in the collection at the Williamstown Historical Museum.
Patricia Leach delves into the history and architecture of the Williamstown meetinghouse, from its original one room structure in what is now Field Park to its white clad building (the First Congregational Church) on Main Street.
Oblong Road was one of the earliest parts of Williamstown to be settled, devoted to farming, dominated by three farming families: the Youngs, the Torreys, and the Phelpses. Two of them farming today.
Williams Professor Christine DeLucia offers possibilities for critically rethinking both history & geography & their enduring meanings.
"Spanish Flu" hits W'town in 1918. Dusty Bahlman shares the local effect of the 1918 flu pandemic. The WHM, in partnership with Williams College Library & Chaplains' Office, is actively gathering reflections from community members on the COVID-19 pandemic. Share your story& fill out a survey at: https://tinyurl.com/yystsugw