Triplex to Screen 'Made in Massachusetts'

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Triplex Cinema and Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative announce a special one-time screening of "Made in Massachusetts," an epic chronological compilation of scenes from two hundred movies and television shows shot in Massachusetts between 1922 and 2022, including a number of films shot in the Berkshires.

Directors Adam Roffman and Vatche Arabian have compiled memorable clips from one hundred years of filmed entertainment into a delightful and informative film highlighting the diversity of locations in Massachusetts.

Tickets for the Oct. 13 screening are available at the Triplex Cinema website and are free; there is a suggested donation of $20 for this event and all fundraising proceeds will be shared by the Triplex and BFMC. Following the screening will be a conversation between director Adam Roffman and BFMC's Executive Director Diane Pearlman.

According to a press release:

Filmmaking in Massachusetts began in the earliest days of the motion picture industry, in the late 1890's, with a series of eight "Rip Van Winkle" short films shot on Cape Cod in 1896. Notable films shot in Massachusetts include "Captains Courageous," shot in 1937 in Gloucester; " the Academy Award winning "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," shot in the Northampton area, in 1967; 1967's "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" shot on Nantucket; 1969's "Alice's Restaurant" shot in and around Great Barrington; "Love Story," shot in 1970 in and around Cambridge; "Jaws," shot in 1974 on Martha's Vineyard; "The Verdict," shot in and around Boston in 1982; "Good Will Hunting," shot in and around Boston in 1997; the Academy Award winning "The Departed," shot in 2005; and the Academy Award winning film "Coda" shot in Gloucester in 2020. This is just a small handful of films shot in Massachusetts over the past century, films which include many of the greatest actors and performances in the history of cinema.

Director Adam Roffman has worked on numerous films shot in Massachusetts as a member of the art department where he is an On-Set-Dresser (the member of the art department who, along with the production designer, consults with the director and cinematographer to achieve the look of each scene). Films he has worked on include "CODA," Little Women," "American Hustle," "Don't Look Up," and "The Town," and he will share with the audience his experiences working on these films, as well as the work that went into compiling "Made in Massachusetts." As a co-founder of the Independent Film Festival Boston, Roffman has been an advocate for film in Massachusetts and "Made in Massachusetts" is a love letter to the State and a visual representation of the diversity of one-hundred-years of filmmaking.

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South County Celebrates 250th Anniversary of the Knox Trail

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
06:18PM / Sunday, January 11, 2026

State Sen. Paul Mark carries the ceremonial linstock, a device used to light artillery. With him are New York state Sen. Michelle Hinchey and state Sen. Nick Collins of Suffolk County.

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. —The 250th celebration of American independence began in the tiny town of Alford on Saturday morning.

Later that afternoon, a small contingent of re-enactors, community members and officials marched from the Great Barrington Historical Society to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center to recognize the Berkshire towns that were part of that significant event in the nation's history.

State Sen. Paul Mark, as the highest ranking Massachusetts governmental official at the Alford crossing, was presented a ceremonial linstock flying the ribbons representing every New York State county that Henry Knox and his team passed through on their 300-mile journey from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the winter of 1775-76.

"The New York contingent came to the border. We had a speaking program, and they officially handed over the linstock, transferring control of the train to Massachusetts," said Mark, co-chair of Massachusetts' special commission for the semiquincentennial. "It was a great melding of both states, a kind of coming together."

State Rep. Leigh Davis called Knox "an unlikely hero, he was someone that rose up to the occasion. ... this is really honoring someone that stepped into a role because he was called to serve, and that is something that resonates."

Gen. George Washington charged 25-year-old bookseller Knox with bringing artillery from the recently captured fort on Lake Champlain to the beleaugured and occupied by Boston. It took 80 teams of horses and oxen to carry the nearly 60 tons of cannon through snow and over mountains.

Knox wrote to Washington that "the difficulties were inconceivable yet surmountable" and left the fort in December. He crossed the Hudson River in early January near Albany, crossing into Massachusetts on what is now Route 71 on Jan. 10, 1776. By late January, he was in Framingham and in the weeks to follow the artillery was positioned on Dorchester Heights.

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