Posted by admin on Dec 5, 2011
Personal letters of George N. Briggs — the only Pittsfield resident ever elected governor of Massachusetts — are among the thousands of the city’s historical private and public manuscripts the local library plans to preserve for future generations.
The Berkshire Athenaeum has received a $30,000 federal grant through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners to digitally scan nearly 15,000 documents into its computer system for research purposes.
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