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" It's reported that actor-comedian Robin Williams has owned a summer home in Pittsfield. " Posters of the newspaper http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/pittsfield,465904 http://data-2.publicwhitepages.com/base.php?t=massachusetts&id=974757 http://www.massrealty.com/berkshires/pittsfield/home/34-Giovina-Dr,-Pittsfield,-MA-01201/201513/photos robin williams friend christopher reeve at his home in williamstown next to mt greylock http://www.chrisreevehomepage.com/biography.html ''Boy, we have a really strange guy in the dining room," she recalled telling a co-worker. "You should see him talking to the lobsters." "I'm not a 'movie person,' " she said on Tuesday. "I never knew who people were." http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/robin-williams-made-impression-during-berkshire-visits-in-early-90s,363737
c lapp park pittsfield, mass home field of pittsfield high school https://www.google.com/search?q=clapp+park+pittsfield+mass&oq=clapp+park+pittsfield+mass&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.15181j0j4&client=ms-android-uscellular-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF - " Pellerin was head coach of the Pittsfield High baseball team for 19 years, leading the team to the state title in 1966 and taking the team to the 1974 title game. He also served as athletic director, and head softball coach during his time at PHS. " http://www.iberkshires.com/story/51650/Clapp-Park-Ballfield-to-Be-Named-After-Coach-Pellerin.html
serenade - 1842 http://www.bartleby.com/248/190.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=HGFQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA166&lpg=RA1-PA166&dq=longfellow+stayed+at+elm+knoll+in+pittsfield+for&source=bl&ots=3YuftpIhqY&sig=M04s3DSaojspbsiZcEGJYekU8nU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWkZzm647UAhUHxiYKHZuVAQgQ6AEILzAH#v=onepage&q=longfellow%20stayed%20at%20elm%20knoll%20in%20pittsfield%20for&f=false
longfellow began working on november 12, 1845 on " the old clock on the stairs" based upon the clock at elm knoll in pittsfield mass where he stayed with his new bride at her father's summer house 2 1/2 weeks before beginning work in earnest on evangeline ? l ongfellow had been working on evangeline before he began working on it " in earnest " on november 28th, in 1845 ? https://books.google.com/books?id=xVs6AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL5-PA47&lpg=SL5-PA47&dq=evangeline+first+copyright+record&source=bl&ots=-Vpo4B3pI5&sig=72MwSikswuBYP_KkvVjpR8Rqjiw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi48vz1447UAhXINSYKHc_rCfkQ6AEIRzAH#v=onepage&q=evangeline%20first%20copyright%20record&f=false
evangeline first published in 1847 but first copyrighted in 1843 ? https://www.abebooks.com/Evangeline-Tale-Acadie-ninth-edition-Longfellow/11343300866/bd
" One of his teammates was Mike (Doc) Powers, a future major leaguer who, at the time, was the captain of the baseball team at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Powers was impressed with Sockalexis' talent, and convinced Louis, a Catholic, to enroll at the Jesuit-run institution. This he did in the fall of that year. " https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/2b1aea0a