Good News! More Opportunities for the Stockbridge Walks
Our first four sessions are fully subscribed, so four more have been added
In other good news, my storm recovery continues apace. I have a new car, all registered and inspected. The deck repairs will commence soon. My lawn has been cleared of all downed trees and branches. Work will continue indefinitely in my paddock and woods. I have two huge (and growing) burn piles, and lots of new firewood.
My apologies to my faithful readers for a recent lack of posts. I have many more queued up (in my mind) — more of my life story and descriptions of my OLLI courses, both future and past. In Winter 2025 I will be offering a seminar on current issues, with a heavy emphasis on indigenous culture. I will also share both previous and new writings about autism (including a recap of the OLLI course I presented in 2018, Autism in the Age of Neurodiversity).
And, I will write up the wonderful experience I had taking a group of Brothertown Indians on a tour of Stockbridge. For now, here are details about the headline of this post.
This link will bring you to a description of the Walking Tours: Indian Town, Stockbridge. There are now six sessions being offered on September weekends — I will be leading four of those walks. Kate Kidd will be leading the other two; she will also be offering two walks on October 6th (I plan to be climbing Mount Washington on that day).
These walks are intended to be casual, informative, and interactive. The focus is on the period from the founding by Royal Charter of the Indian Town in 1737 to the time the Stockbridge Indians (in 1783) involuntarily left the homelands of the Muhheconneok (Mahicans) to move west. Kate and I will describe and answer questions about local indigenous culture and other aspects of Stockbridge history.
We have limited each group to 20 people so that there will be plenty of opportunity to have conversation along the way, and to give everyone a chance to ask questions and share comments.
The walks include eleven stops along Main Street, a design that was sponsored by Housatonic Heritage and based on extensive research done by my brother Rick. The stops were selected by Bonney Hartley, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, and the two of them created a narrative to explain the significance of each location.
Whether or not you go on one of our walks, you might enjoy perusing Footprints of Our Ancestors: Mohican History Walking Tour of Main Street Stockbridge.