06/17/2025
🔔 TOMORROW: Join us and the on Wednesday, June 18, for an evening of local labor history and conversation!
We’ll start at the for their talk with author and MCLA emeritus professor Maynard Seider about his book “The Gritty Berkshires: A People’s History from the Hoosac Tunnel to MASS MoCA” (thegrittyberkshires.com).
Then, we’ll head to eat + drink—with Seider as our special guest!—for an informal conversation about what we learned and its relevance to contemporary labor organizing in the Berkshires.
✨ Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
⏰ Time: 6-7:30pm for the NAPL book talk; 7:40-9pm for the hangout at PUBLIC
📍Locations: North Adams Public Library, 74 Church St, North Adams; PUBLIC eat+drink, 34 Holden Street, North Adams
RSVP today at the link in our bio!
About Seider and his book: “Maynard Seider, an activist sociologist who has taught and researched in the area for more than three decades, places the history of the North Berkshire region in the context of U.S. and global history. Through the use of oral histories, union archives, newspaper accounts and participant observation, the author focuses on the 1,000 men who built the nation’s longest railroad tunnel, the thousands of men and women who worked in its textile mills and electronics factories and who struck, built worker co-ops, and community coalitions to improve their daily lives.” (thegrittyberkshires.com)
