This Weekend: Garden Tour, Plant Sale, and Tool Raffle!

 The Colrain Historical Society is sponsoring two flower garden tour days this year. The self-guided tour of nine gardens in Colrain is July 20 and 21 from 10am to 4pm. There will also be a plant sale and a raffle of high quality gardening tools.

Colrain Historical Society Facebook post with poster for the weekend event.

Colrain Historical Society Facebook post about the plant sale.

Colrain Historical Society Facebook post about the raffle for 4 gardening tools.

Garden Tour - July 20th & 21st

Advertising flyer for Garden Tour & Plant Sale

The Colrain Historical Society is sponsoring two flower garden tour days this year. The self-guided tour of nine gardens in Colrain is July 20 and 21 from 10am to 4pm.

You will see plant collectors gardens, perennials, pollinator habitats, unusual annuals, well established trees and shrubs in the various landscapes of Colrain. 

Tickets with tour map can be purchased at Pine Hill Orchards or Catamount Country Store for $20 per person.

Rare specialty plants from a CT nursery, a large selection of daylilies, and native pollinator plants will be for sale as well. 

Grab and go lunches are available at Catamount Country Store on Saturday and Pine Hill on Saturday and Sunday. Bring a blanket and enjoy lunch in a garden of your choice!

Flower garden in a Colrain front yard.

[Source: July 2024 issue of the Colrain Clarion.]

Renewed Barns!

Photo by Maria Kingsley 

The barns at the Museum of Colrain History were recently stained a traditional barn red with white trim by a crew from the Franklin County House of Correction, who spent a little over a week on the job. 

In recent years the museum had been painted white so its a striking visual change - and looks wonderful with the new sign!

[Source: July 2024 issue of the Colrain Clarion.]

Program: A Murder on Catamount

Thursday, June 13th at 7:00 pm in the Stacy Barn, located at the Colrain Museum of History, 8 Main Road, Colrain.

Pownal Station circa 1875

On September 9, 1875 at the Pownal, Vermont train station, two fugitives slipped aboard a train among a crowd of firemen returning from a muster in North Adams. Their hasty plans to leave behind their problems — and the scene of a crime — are the subject of the Colrain Historical Society’s program on June 13. 

This forgotten story, researched and presented by the Catamount Hill Association’s historian, Prentice Crosier, will follow the Historical Society’s 7:00 o’clock business meeting at the Stacy Barn, 8 Main Road in Colrain Center. 

 The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Joseph Riley Farnsworth is buried in Colrain’s West Branch Cemetery. His distinctive zinc monument is easily found on the west side of the cemetery near Adamsville Road.