Clark Art Institute Announces 'American Revolutionaries' Gallery Tour Series

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute has announced a series of gallery talks for April to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States. The "American Revolutionaries" tours will feature artworks from the Burrows Gallery of American Decorative Arts, including silver from the Henry Morris and Elizabeth H. Burrows collection.

All talks begin at 12 p.m. in the Manton Research Center reading room.

The series opens on April 1 with a presentation by Alexis Goodin, curator of decorative arts. Goodin will discuss silver crafted by Paul Revere Jr. and his father, highlighting Revere's dual role as a silversmith and a figure in the American Revolution.

On April 8, curatorial intern Oliver Hess will lead a session titled "George Washington, American Icon." Hess, a graduate student in the Williams College/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art, will examine the public's historical fascination with Washington's likeness. The talk will cover formal portraits, print culture, and funerary porcelain created following Washington's death.

The series concludes on April 15 with a discussion on the social and political significance of tea in colonial America. Goodin will return to lead the session, focusing on silver and furniture associated with the era and the role of women in organizing tea boycotts following the Tea Act of 1773.

The "American Revolutionaries" tours are free with gallery admission, and no registration is required.

Reminder to Lanesborough, Williamstown Voters: Mount Greylock School Committee a 'Write-In' Election

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:03AM / Friday, October 30, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Politicians and pundits in recent years have been preaching patience when it comes to getting election night results.

 

That usually means places like California, where vote-counting can be complicated or Michigan, where razor thin margins are anticipated.

 

Add Williamstown and Lanesborough to that list.

 

It is not a matter of pre-election polling suggesting particularly tight races; there is no such polling. Rather, it is a question of how voters will be making their selections in the race for the Mount Greylock Regional School District Committee.

 

None of the six candidates who qualified for four seats up for grabs on the panel appear on the ballots that have been mailed out, used in early voting or will be distributed at the polls on Nov. 3.

 

That means that all votes will be cast as write-ins, and that means it will take significantly longer for election workers to tally up votes in the local election once the polls close at 8 p.m. at Lanesborough Town Hall and Williamstown Elementary School.

 

As always, voters in both towns vote for all four seats on the ballot: two seats for Lanesborough residents and two for Williamstown residents in this year’s balloting.