2026 Calendar Still Available

It’s not too late to get your 2026 Colrain Historical Society calendars, featuring 12 stunning paintings of local scenes by local artists, all from private collections and seen in our sixth annual art exhibit last fall. The calendars are available at $15 each at the Catamount Store and Pine Hill Orchards in Colrain, Hagers’ Store in Shelburne, and at Nancy Dole Books in Shelburne Falls

2026 Calendars Now on Sale

Front cover of the 2026 CHS calendar

The Colrain Historical Society has captured 14 of the vivid paintings from the “Colrain and Hilltowns on Canvas” exhibition last Fall in a 2026 calendar which is now available for $15. The calendar will make a great holiday gift!

You may purchase it at 

Catamount Country Store, 113 Main Rd, Colrain, MA

Pine Hill Orchards, 248 Greenfield, Rd, Colrain, MA

Hager’s Farm Market, 1232 Mohawk Trail (Route 2), Shelburne, MA

The calendar size when open is 17” x 11”.

Back cover of the calendar

The artists, images, and locations are

Front cover, A. Hale Johnson, Blue Barn

January, W. Lester Stevens, The Red Mill, Colrain

February, Pricilla Phelps, The Ed Stowe Place, Adamsville, Colrain

March, Jim Murphy, Grazing by the River

April, Maurice Kennedy, Coal Silos, Conway St., Buckland

May, Althea Brigham, Apple Blossom Time

June, Chris Bagg, Buckland Bridges

July, Robert Strong Woodward, Grey Heights, Buckland

August, Cynthia Herbert, Sipping Summer, and Watching

September, Rodger Desreuisseau, The Red Mill, Colrain

October, Lynn Fisher, Farming at Shoestring, Colrain

November, David Brewster, Cows in Green Station, Herzig Farm, Colrain

December, unsigned, Reed Farm, Conway

End page, Joseph Baker, Birches

Colrain and Hilltowns on Canvas - 5th Annual Show!

September 21 and 22, 2024, 10am to 4pm 

Cost of admission is $10.00. 

 The Colrain Historical Society will sponsor the fifth annual fundraising art show at the Shelburne Buckland Community Center, 53 Main St. in Shelburne Falls. 

As well as Colrain themed art, paintings showing our neighboring hilltowns will round out the display. Regionally famous painters will include George Gardner Symons, Steve Maniatty, Robert Strong Woodward, W. Lester Stevens and A. Hale Johnson among others. 

There will be over 50 paintings by 40 different artists. Most are works on loan from private collections and homes in the hilltowns. The artists are contemporary or deceased, famous and not so famous, as well as self taught. It is intentionally a non-curated show. The mixed media, skill of the artist and their prospective is part of the magic experienced when walking through the rows of art. Many of the paintings show a period of time long gone and people find themselves reminiscing about their family's past. 

We will also have prints and reprints of items in the Historical Society’s collection and old maps of our area for sale. 

Please join us again this year for a rare opportunity to see this bit of visual history.

The photo above shows a landscape painting by George Gardner Symons.

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

Colrain and the Hilltowns on Canvas - Sept 23rd and 24th

 

The Colrain Historical Society will sponsor its fourth annual fundraising art show on Sept 23 and 24, 9 am - 4 pm,  at the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center, 53 Main Street in Shelburne Falls. Admission: $10.

There will be over 75 paintings by 48 different artists, all paintings not seen in previous years. Most are works on loan from private collections and homes in the hilltowns. The artists are contemporary or deceased, famous and not so famous, as well as self-taught. It is intentionally a non-curated show. The mixed media, skill of the artist, and their prospective is part of the magic.

Please join us again this year for this rare opportunity to see a slice of hill town art and history. Regionally famous painters will include George Gardner Symons, Steve Maniatty, Robert Strong Woodward, Edwin Lorenzo Elmer and A. Hale Johnson among others. A special feature will be paintings by Judith Russell, a longtime Shelburne Falls folk artist.

We will also have prints and reprints of some items in the Historical Society’s collection and reprints of old maps for sale as well.

The Historical Society will also have a new booklet for sale, based on the Industries and Occupations of Colrain done by Katherine Cram in the late 1930s.

Front cover

Back cover