Colrain & The Hilltowns On Canvas Art Show VII

FRI 5-9, SAT & SUN 10-4, SEPT 18,19 & 20 

Shelburne Buckland Community Center 

53 Main St., Shelburne Falls 

An exhibition from private collections: over 50 works by 30 different artists - from contemporary to our long gone regional professionals - Wm Lester Stevens, Woodward. Maniatty, Symons, & Hale Johnson. 

This is a Fundraiser for the Colrain Historical Society.

All New Scenes Of Colrain & Hilltowns By The Local & By The Famous.

Locally filmed “Lost Nation” showing in Greenfield

The screening is on Thursday, August 20, at 6:30 pm at the Greenfield Garden Cinemas on Main Street in Greenfield. Some scenes were shot behind the Pitt House and elsewhere in Colrain and in Leyden in 2022. Tell anyone who you think might be interested.

Link to the full article on the Greenfield Recorder website:

https://recorder.com/2026/08/12/a-cinematic-homecoming-director-jay-craven-to-host-qa-for-locally-filmed-lost-nation-at-greenfield-garden-cinemas/

Two scenes from the preview that were shot in Colrain near the West Branch River in Adamsville:

https://www.gardencinemas.net/movie/Lost%5FNation%5F%5FQA%5Fwith%5FJay%5FCraven

Apple Capital Cookbook

Hot off the presses and 20 years in the making, the Apple Capital Cookbook: 250 Years of Colrain Apple Recipes and Stories is now available for sale at Pine Hill Orchards and Catamount Country Store in Colrain, and at Nancy Dole Books in Shelburne Falls.

At the turn of the 20th century Colrain was the apple capital of Massachusetts. The Colrain Historical Society has collected scores of apple recipes, including desserts, main courses, beverages and baked goods, from early times to the present, along with some apple art by local artists. But it’s not just a cookbook. We’ve added letters, news clippings, and brief accounts of local apple lore, even apple poems by local authors. It’ll make a great gift for cooks and history buffs.

Spiral bound, 72 pages, 6” x 9”.

Revolutionary Notes - John Bolton

One of 10 children and the youngest son of Colrain’s first doctor, Dr. Hugh Bolton, John Bolton was a Revolutionary War hero.

At 19 he fought with Rogers’ Rangers at the Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War. In 1777, he led a company of “artificers” fortifying West Point, where they laid a heavy chain across the Hudson River to prevent British vessels from running upriver. By 1779, his troops were ill-fed, poorly clothed and had not been paid. They were approaching a state of mutiny. On furlough, Bolton returned to Colrain, where he had valuable property, which he mortgaged, and raised what other funds he could. He and the company remained at West Point until the end of the war.

A few years later Bolton moved to Warren, N.Y., where he lived with a daughter (perhaps Martha Elizabeth Bolton Patterson) until he died, penniless, in 1807, at the age of 67.

[Written by Belden Merims for the Colrain Clarion.]