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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
“I first played with the St. Mary’s College team, of Van Buren, Maine, and then with Ricker’s College, after which I went to Holy Cross. I was a great favorite at Holy Cross, with which team I played center field.” “I have seen printed in several papers that the Cleveland players are liable to freeze me out of the club because I am an Indian. That is all bosh, for the white players can’t do enough for me, especially Burkett, who is said to be jealous because I lead him in batting. Jesse is proud of me because I have made such a good showing, he having recommended me to Manager Tebeau. It was while playing with the Holy Cross team at Williamstown, two years, that John M Ward, told a League manager to sign me. Burkett, who coached the Holy Cross team, finally got Tebeau to let me have a trial.” http://didthetribewinlastnight.com/blog/2014/04/11/a-story-and-interview-of-louis-sockalexis/
' “I was raised in the Northeast,” said actress Sally Field, playing in 1981 a Miami investigative reporter in the movie drama “Absence of Malice.” She continued: “I had my first job there summer when I was 16, on the  Berkshire Eagle . I wonder if they’d have me back.” When co-star Paul Newman listened to her utter that line, he might well have thought of Williamstown, where he visited and where his wife, Joanne Woodward, was a regular on the Williamstown Theatre Festival stage. ' https://theberkshireedge.com/33351-2/

baseball bill

echo & the bunnymen baseball bill senators superfan and bar owner baseball bill , bill holdforth former pittsfield highschool standout tommy grieve played for the washington senators when they moved to texas Ken Christensen tommy grieve hit a homerun on our highschool's baseball field once that hit the old hanger that used to be part of the ww1 era airport that serviced the old idlewild hotel that was located where the hall house is and was jenny jerome may have grown up in the hall house and gave the town's college its school color tommy grieve was playing with the washington senators the year they left to become the texas rangers https://bit.ly/2Zwxxow  (baseball bill rangers senators bitly link) https://bit.ly/2XpAFFu (tbt fb link) back to mona https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/03/12/legendary-senators-fan-baseball-bill-tells-andy-pol
Echo & the Bunnymen and The Violent Femmes play Boston this summer : " Jul 15 – Boston – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion " " Jul 23 – Chicago – Huntington Bank Pavilion" https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=514382555387228&tsid=0.690684330852863&source=typeahead
" In 1965 the group – Dodd, Tamblyn, Valentino and Lane – signed with Capitol Records' labelTower, teaming up with producer Ed Cobb. Cobb wrote the group's most popular song, "Dirty Water", which the band recorded in late 1965. The song's references to the city ofBoston are owed to Cobb's experiences with a mugger in Boston. The song also makes reference to the Boston Strangler and the dorm curfews for college women in those days.[12] " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standells
" I try on every style I can think of, from Bauhaus and Love and Rockets to Ministry and Sisters of Mercy and even the Romantics (don’t forget the Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, and various ‘raincoat bands’-a term I would later learn from Bono of U2 fame)... " - Billy Corgan on live journal http://billycorgan.livejournal.com/11224.html billy corgan of the smashing pumpkins interviews u2 : http://www.starla.org/articles/u2.htm
elysian field
 " In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles with his progressive rock group, "Elysian Fields". After changing their name to "Impulse" they released five albums on the Electric Fantasy label. While living in Los Angeles he became a Midi and synthesis specialist for many top artists like Van Halen, Guiffria, Gino Vannelli, and even appeared on Entertainment Tonight as a technical advisor for electronic music. He now operates a state of the art digital recording facility in Saint Petersburg, Florida. " https://www.amazon.com/Homage-Elysian-Fields/dp/B000CCFKWY
 " In 1978 he moved to Los Angeles with his progressive rock group, "Elysian Fields". After changing their name to "Impulse" they released five albums on the Electric Fantasy label. While living in Los Angeles he became a Midi and synthesis specialist for many top artists like Van Halen, Guiffria, Gino Vannelli, and even appeared on Entertainment Tonight as a technical advisor for electronic music. He now operates a state of the art digital recording facility in Saint Petersburg, Florida. " https://www.amazon.com/Homage-Elysian-Fields/dp/B000CCFKWY