Clarksburg Sets Townwide Tag Sale

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CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The Clarksburg Historical Commission is sponsoring the second annual Townwide Tag Sale to be held on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9 to 2 at Town Hall, 111 River Road.
 
Clarksburg residents can bring table(s) for $10 per table space to set up behind Town Hall. The cost is also $10 to list a personal tag sale on a map that will be handed out to customers. Maps will be handed out at Town Hall the day of the event.  
 
To reserve space or to list your tag sale, contact Jeanne at 413-663-3630. Deadline to be listed on the map is Thursday, Sept. 26. 
 
Raffles will be held of an oil painting by the late Cheshire artist Len Stomski, an afghan and a quilt. Also, items can be donated for the Historical Commission's table (no clothing or magazines). If anyone has items of an historical nature that they would like to donate to the commission, particularly related to Clarksburg, contact Joe at 413-663-8710. We'll pick up.
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Art Donation Brightens Bracewell Youth Project

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff

Above, a watercolor landscape on the second floor.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Residents entering transitional housing at 111 Bracewell Ave. can look to the left to see a light at the end of the tunnel. 
 
The dark painting with its pathway toward lighted element brought to mind the Hoosac Tunnel, said Kathy Keeser, executive director of Louison House, on Friday.
 
"Somebody who was going through something could think, well, this is a way out — or a way in," she said, of why she selected that piece.
 
Plus, she added, the colors really worked in the front hallway of the Bracewell Youth Housing Project
 
The work was one of three donated by artist Sarah Sutro, whose paintings also hang in the Flood House and in Terry's House in Adams. A regional and international artist who makes her home in North Adams, her artworks have been in collections and exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including at the State House
 
Sutro's recently been going through her works of acrylics, inks and watercolors she's created over her career.  
 
"I just have enjoyed giving some of my paintings that are in storage in my studio, not doing anything with them, and having them out in the community instead, and having other people enjoy them and relate to them," she said.
 
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