An Evening with Ted Tally: A Fundraiser for Images Cinema

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema  announced An Evening With Academy Award-Winner Ted Tally on Wednesday, Oct.16.

Ted Tally, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "The Silence of the Lambs" for Best Adapted Screenplay, will be in conversation with American novelist Jim Shepard following a screening of "The Silence of the Lambs" on Wednesday, Oct. 16. Starting at 6pm there will be a cash bar with specialty drinks in the Images Cinema lounge and lobby. 

Tickets are $20; $18 for members, with the option to pay a higher ticket price to benefit Images Cinema. Tickets are available at https://www.imagescinema.org/movie/an-evening-with-ted-tally

Buying tickets in advance is strongly suggested, as we do expect this event to sell out. 

Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring Street, Williamstown. For more film and event information, visit imagescinema.org.

Event Timeline

6pm: Cash bar with specialty drinks in the Lounge

7pm: The Silence of the Lambs will screen in the Theater

9pm: Ted will be in conversation with Jim

Williamstown Recognizes Local Farmer, Library Director at Town Meeting

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
09:35AM / Thursday, May 21, 2026

Win Chenail has had a farm stand at his Luce Road dairy farm since 1965. The Chenails have been farming in Williamstown since 1916. Right, Select Board Chair Stephanie Boyd thanks board members whose terms were up this year. 

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — For more than 60 years, Winthrop F. Chenail has been selling his bountiful crops to residents of Williamstown and beyond. 

 

"The family dairy farm at the top of Luce Road has been an anchor farm in our community since 1916," said Elisabeth Goodman. "His farm stand has been operating since 1965 and that's where we get our sweet corn, homegrown tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, cabbage, peppers, summer squash flowers, and pumpkins that he and his grandson Nick Chenail grow as a side business to the family dairy farm."

 

Win Chenail's integrity, excellence, and dedication of service to the citizens of Williamstown was recognized at the annual town meeting on Tuesday with the 11th annual Scarborough Solomon Flint Community Service Award.

 

"At age 90, Win has not slowed down much," Goodman said. "I never did get to speak to him on the phone when notifying him about this award, as his wife told me he was busy in the greenhouse repotting 2,000 tomato plants."

 

Five generations have worked the Mount Williams Dairy Farm that Chenail's grandparents purchased, and Chenail's also been a caretaker of 130 acres of town land at the Spruces and Burbank properties. 

 

"The Chenail family has been managing the land since the 1950s keeping the fields green, lush, and productive with sustainable management practices," she said. "They fertilize it with manure from the dairy farm and lime as needed. With such careful, long-term stewardship of the soil, the land has continued to be fertile and productive for half a century under his fare."

 

Chenail thanked his family and fellow farmers for contributing to the welfare of the community and said it had been a privilege to keep the town-owned fields in farming.