The Colrain Historical Society will hold its first meeting of the 2019 season at the home of Joan McQuade, 7 Main Road, Colrain, on Thursday, April 18, at 7:00 p.m.
There will be a potluck supper at 6:00 p.m. before the meeting. Bring a main course, salad, veggie or dessert to share; cider will be available.
Following the meeting, at 7:30 p.m. a short “Show and Tell” program
will be a narrative drawn from “Our Trip West,” the diary of the
Donelson family (of two generations) auto trip west to California,
Canada, and back in 1939, written by one of the passengers, Winnifred
Lincoln, mother of Ruth Donelson. This seven-week odyssey in a new car
holding two men and three women and their luggage during the Depression
was “the trip of a lifetime.” The detailed diary tells as much about
these five New Englanders as it does about United States at that time.
It’s something of a social history.
You can come for part or all of the evening, but we hope you’ll be
there for the meeting to find out about our successful Painting Exhibit last weekend, what’s happening with the Pitt House
property, and what to expect this coming summer.