In recognition of the 250th national celebration, the Colrain Historical Society will present a program about the Colrain Resolves of 1774, which anticipated the Declaration of Independence by two years. The presentation will include showing of a short film dramatizing the event by Irish filmmakers.
The program is at 7:30 pm on Thursday, June 11. It will follow the June meeting at 7 in the Stacy Barn behind the Pitt House at 8 Main Road in Colrain.
Both are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Photo: screenshot of a copy of an address titled The early settlers of Colrain, Mass.; or, Some account of ye early settlement of "Boston township no. 2, alias Colrain."
by McClellan, Charles H., 1885. There are no known copies of the original Resolves. This is the earliest account of the event that exists.
