Shaker drawings by Ejner Handberg featured in several books

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Berkshire House Publishing, located in Lee, publishes several books by Ejner Handberg. Born in Denmark, Handberg was a builder in the Berkshires for most of his life. As is noted in the forward by June Sprigg in Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware, his involvement with Shaker furniture began with a chance meeting with Faith and Edward Deming Andrews, noted authorities on the Shakers who were also Berkshire residents. The books are a visual pleasure, even to one who never made a piece of furniture and probably never will! But they have been gifts to those who do and to those who simply appreciate craftsmanship. The titles are: Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware; Shop Drawings of Shaker Iron and Tin Ware; three volumes of Shop Drawings of Shaker Furnitire and Woodenware; Measured Drawings of Eighteenth Century American Furniture. Other Berkshire House books that may be of interest: Old Barns in the New World, Reconstructing History, by Richard Babcock and Lauren Stevens; Home Life in the Colonial Days, and Child Life in the Colonial Days, both by Alice Morse Earle; French Ways and Their Meaning, by Edith Wharton. The Berkshire House website is: www.berkshirehouse.com

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No One Injured in Mass Ave Truck Collision

Staff Reports 10:28AM / Thursday, February 26, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — According to North Adams 911, firefighters, police, and emergency medical services were dispatched to Massachusetts Avenue between Ashton and Protection avenues late Wednesday, around 9 p.m.

A westbound truck veered from its lane, striking the rear quarter panel of an eastbound truck and spinning it 180 degrees.

One tire was ripped off the westbound truck and rolled approximately 40 yards before coming to a stop near a utility pole.

Although there were no injuries, both vehicles were towed from the scene.

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