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🌱 What researchers just uncovered beneath Tyringham’s historic Shaker cemetery forest floor

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In today's newsletter:

  • What researchers just uncovered beneath Tyringham’s historic Shaker cemetery forest floor
  • How a 200-year-old Tyringham-linked lake tragedy lives on in song

Also on today's calendar: Community Working Wednesday — Woven Roots Farm.

Today's riddle: Why don't eggs tell Jokes? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Occasional morning rain, with a high of 73 and low of 55 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and beautiful, temps: high: 76, low: 50.
  • Thursday: Periods of sun, with a high of 79 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• In Tyringham woods, archaeology brings a vanished Shaker community back into view (berkshireeagle.com) — Archaeologists and volunteers are carefully mapping and re-burying 93 grave markers in the historic Tyringham Shaker Cemetery, the last Shaker-owned parcel of the former “City of Love.” Using radar, LiDAR, and GIS, University of Richmond researchers are uncovering how Shakers organized burials and how the surrounding forest has changed, while raising questions about how best to protect this sacred local site.
   

• Eagle Archives, June 23, 1954: A Berkshire ballad of horrendous tragedy is preserved by 97-year-old Clayton singer (berkshireeagle.com) — A 97-year-old Clayton resident preserves a ballad about Sam Buel’s 1812 rescue on Six Mile Pond, a story tied to honors from Tyringham’s Berkshire Washington Benevolent Society. Tyringham’s own vital records also document victim Betsy Garfield, connecting this tragic Berkshire legend directly to the town’s early residents and historical archives.
   

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    Thursday June 25
  • Learn to Fish with Mass. Div. of Fisheries & Wildlife
    Lee Library Association 100 Main Street, Lee, MA 01238
    11:00 am
    • Wednesday July 1
  • Community Working Wednesday — Woven Roots Farm →
    Woven Roots Farm & Community Center, 12 Mc Carthy Rd, Tyringham
    10:00 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Lee

  • Pilgrim Inn owners hope to replace it with four-story Marriott hotel (berkshireeagle.com)

Stockbridge

  • 1 Pixley Hill Rd Stockbridge, MA 01262 / iBerkshires.com - The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information. (iberkshires.com)
  • Team Shields, Team Hillman take top honors at annual Allied Association Father-Son Golf Tournament (berkshireeagle.com)
  • Review: 'The American Five' at Berkshire Theatre Group explores who shaped MLK (timesunion.com)

Great Barrington

  • BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Roberto's Pizza, The Pub, and Robbie's Community Market—opening soon on Main Street in Great Barrington (theberkshireedge.com)
  • CAPITAL IDEAS: How to invest tax-efficiently (theberkshireedge.com)

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