Berkshire Athenaeum Celebrates Women's History Month

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. The Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield's public library, is observing Women's History Month this March with displays from the library's adult and children's collections, as well as a list of recommended readings.
 
"The athenaeum collections offer works by and about women throughout history and today —their diverse stories, experiences, and accomplishments. We encourage readers to select materials from our physical and digital collections that speak to these themes," said Outreach Librarian Alicia Hyman.
 
Women's History Month began in 1980 as a week in March proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter, who remarked that "too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength, and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well."
 
In 1987 Congress declared the weeklong event a month-long observance in perpetuity.
 
The athenaeum is open 9 a.m. -9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Friday; and 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday. For more information or questions about accessing library services or materials, please call 413-499-9480, Ext. 4 or email info@pittsfieldlibrary.org.
 
Fiction:
Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale (FICTION Atwood)
Arafat, Zaina - You Exist Too Much (FICTION Arafat)
Barry, Quan - We Ride upon Sticks (FICTION Barry)
Butler, Octavia - Parable of the Sower (SCI FI Butler)
Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine (FICTION Erdrich)
Heti, Sheila - Motherhood (FICTION Heti)
Kirby, Gwen - Shit Cassandra Saw (FICTION Kirby)
Miller, Madeline - Circe: A Novel (FICTION Miller)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Gods of Jade and Shadow (FICTION Moreno-Garcia)
Ozeki, Ruth - A Tale for the Time Being (FICTION Ozeki)
Peters, Torrey - Detransition, Baby (FICTION Peters, Torrey)
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple (FICTION Walker)
Yoder, Rachel - Nightbitch (FICTION Yoder)
 
Nonfiction:
Bates, Laura - Everyday Sexism (305.42 Bates)
brown, adrienne maree - Pleasure Activism (170 Brown)
Brown, Keah- The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me (813 Brown)
The Crunk Feminist Collection (305.42 Crunk)
Davis, Angela Y. - Angela Davis: An Autobiography (B Davis)
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong - She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman (BTubman)
Duster, Michelle - Ida B. the Queen The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells (B Wells)
hooks, bell- Ain't I a Woman (305.48 Hooks)
Jenkins, Morgan- This Will Be My Undoing Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (305 48896 Jenkins)
Jewell. Hannah - She Caused a Riot 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, & Massively Crushed It (305 409 Jewell)
Kendall, Mikki-Hood Feminism (305.42 Kendall)
Mailhot, Terese Marie-Heart Berries: A Memoir (813 Mailhot)
Martin, Wednesday - Untrue Why Nearly Everything We Believe about Women, Lust, and
Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free (306,736 Martin) Morrison, Toni - The Source of Self-Regard Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (814 Morrison)
Quinn, Bridget - She Votes How US Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next (324.623 Quinn)
Shields Charles J-Lorraine Hansberry The Life behind A Raisin in the Sun (B Hansberry) Simone, Nina- I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone (B Simone) Sjunneson 1-Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism (3624 Sjunneson) Solnit, Rebecca - Recollections of my Nonexistence (813 Solnit)
Talusan Meredith- Fairest: A Memoir (B Talusan) Valenti, Jessica-Sex Object (813 Valenti)
West, Lindy-Shrill (817 West)
Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own (824 Woolf)
Zimmerman, Jess - Women and Other Monsters (155.333 Zimmerman]
 
Poetry:
Angelou Maya- The Complete Poetry (811 Angelou)
Clifton, Lucille-How to Carry Water Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (811 Clifton):
Giovanni Nikki-Chasing Utopia A Hybrid (811 Giovanni)
Gorman, Amanda - Call Us What We Carry (YA 811 Gorman)
Rich Adrienne- Collected Poems: 1950-2012 (811 Rich)
 
DVDs:
Frida (DVD Frida)
Hidden Figures (DVD Hidden) A League of Their Own (DVD League)
Little Women (2018) (DVD Little)
9 to 5(DVD Nine)
Set It Off (DVD Set)

 


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Companion Corner: Freya, Fudge & Charlotte

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — If looking for the perfect feline pet, why not triple the fun? There's a threesome at Berkshire Humane Society waiting for a family to call their own.

iBerkshire's Companion Corner is a weekly series spotlighting an animal in our local shelters that is ready to find a home.

We highlighted Freya, Charlotte and Fudge last month and they are still looking for their new home together. 

Kittens Fudge and Charlotte and their mother, Freya, have been at the shelter and in a foster home since April. All three have tested positive for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), often described as feline HIV/AIDS

Feline/small animal adoption counselor Alyssa Petell introduced us to them. 

"They originally were brought in from animal control. The conditions weren't the best in the home. But when they came in, they were tested positive for feline AIDS (FIV). We do send our kittens normally to foster programs to get socialized with the mom. So they got sent to a foster program for about two months to get socialized," she said.

The shelter preferably would like the three to as a family, and to a home with respectful children that will keep them inside.

"We would prefer if they could all go together, but they are a very sweet trio of kitties. They would have to be indoor only because of them being feline AIDS positive," Petell said. "It is OK for them to go into a home with other cats. We prefer if they go into a home with feline AIDS-positive cats, but even if they are negative for feline AIDS, as long as they're not actively scratching each other and biting each other to transmit it, then it should be OK."

Each cat has their own personality. The two kittens love to play with an abundance of toys; one is shy and the other is outgoing. They both like to curl up and sleep in your lap once they get to know you.

It turns out that Fudge is actually a girl. In our previous article, he was mistakenly identified as a boy. 

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