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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Marshall Street Crash Under Investigation; Businesses Remain Closed Until Damage Repaired.

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

Glass litters Tres Ninos' floor on Friday. Right, the front logo from the truck is screwed into the plywood covering the front of the building.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Two local businesses are closed for an indefinite amount of time after a pickup truck slammed through the front of Brewster's antique shop on Marshall Street on Thursday night. 
 
Police Chief Mark Bailey said the crash is still under investigation and didn't have have any further information on Friday morning on one of the truck's occupants who was taken to the hospital. 
 
Brewster's owner Casey Albert was standing in line at another antique shop on Friday, hoping to replace some merchandise shattered in the collision. 
 
"I mean half the store is gone," she said. "He pushed a lot of things way far back, the whole front is just gone."
 
Albert said building owner David Carver said it would be months before she could re-open. Right now, she can get into the back half of the store but was told not to touch anything in the front until the insurance adjuster can look at it. 
 
It's not clear, she said, how long it will take to repair the damage to the building. But her business is taking a big hit. 
 
"You can't replace antiques," Albert said. "That's why they're usually expensive." 
 
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