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High School Football
11-07-09 - Hoosac Valley beats Drury.
More photo's on Monday
Thursday, Nov. 06

Boys' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
McCann Tech 3, Keefe Tech 2

Girls' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
Blackstone Valley 8, McCann Tech 0
Fall Basketball Clinics

Election

Barrett Reflects on Accomplishments with Capital News 9
Alcombright's Victory Speech

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This is Jake
He's been lost in Pittsfield for weeks but frequently sited. He was last seen heading toward the fire station on Peck's Road. He's tired, dirty and needs seizure medication. He's chipped. If you see him, call Julie at 413-537-5616, the vet 24/7 at 413-499-2820 or animal control at 413-448-9700.
How Much is Heating Oil this Week?
It's breaking $2.50 but still cheaper than gas.
Thanks to Gabriella Bond for sharing her memories of the Quincy Street house torn down last week.
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Alice R. Filiault, 87
Lucille Burt, 92
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Mary M. Hanlon, 82
George F. Sarrouf, 73

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Bazaars

Nov. 7:

VNA & Hospice, Community Room, North Adams

North Adams Elks
10-4; Nov. 8, 9-2
Crafters, Chinese auction, bake sale
For vendor information, Melanie at 413-743-5562.

Nov. 14

Berkshire Community Church, Richmond
10-4; Crafters, bake sale. Contact Evelyn Goggia at 413-445-5747

Lanesborough Elementary School annual Fall Craft Fair from 10 to 4. Free admission, huge variety of arts and crafts, raffles, food and more. Proceeds go to sixth-grade trip to Cape Cod.

Vendors can contact Deb at 413-738-5349 or debhutton@aol.com or Lori at 413-499-0065 or lorittod@yahoo.com to secure a spot.

Dec. 12-13

North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Contact Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.

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Williams College Art Historian Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

10:19AM / Friday, May 16, 2008

WILLIAMSTOWN - The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the award of its most prestigious fellowships to Michael J. Lewis, professor of art at Williams College.

The Fellowship will allow Lewis to complete the research and writing of "The Pietist Tradition in Town Planning." "Pietist tradition," Lewis explains, "is expressed in a half century of Utopian town building by varied separatist sects as the 16th-century Anabaptists, 18th-century Moravians, and 19th-century Shakers." It is a tradition that is in parallel and in opposition to the ideal cities of the Italian Renaissance.

His project "is to do justice to this neglected chapter in the history of idea," Lewis said. "It will show that Pietist architecture … was rooted in the scholarly and courtly centers of Europe -- and reflects the fertile interaction of the Renaissance and the Reformation."

He will spend some of his year's leave from Williams in Germany, primarily doing research at the Moravian archives in Herrnhut, Germany. In the U.S. he will focus this year on the Moravian archives in Bethlehem, Penn.

Lewis said the book will sum up the meaning of "the other urban tradition, and seeks to take the measure of the Pietist contribution to urban thought, and its role as a laboratory for social experimentation."

He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and a number of books, including "Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind" (W. W. Norton) and "The Gothic Revival" (Thames and Hudson). His most recent book titled "American Art and Architecture" (Thames & Hudson, World of Art Series) provides an eloquent overview of the history of American art. His book "August Reichensperger: The Politics of the German Gothic Revival" (Architectural History Foundation) received the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for the best book of the year. He is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Criterion.

He received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1985 and his Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He studied for two years at the University of Hannover, Germany, under the auspices of a Fulbright Fellowship. At Williams since 1993, Lewis teaches courses on American art and architecture, eighteenth to twentieth century architecture, and architectural criticism. In addition to his work on American art forms, Lewis also focuses on German art and theory.

Lewis is one of 190 successful candidates, chosen from a group of more than 2,600 applicants. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment. In all, 75 disciplines and 81 different academic institutions are represented by this year's Fellows
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