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5 unusual facts about Great Barrington


Beckett Hall

The estate and the Barrington family who lived there were the inspirations for the naming of Becket, Massachusetts and Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Buddleja davidii 'Windy Hill'

'Windy Hill' was raised from a chance seedling and introduced by Dennis Mareb of the Windy Hill Nursery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Emanuel Leutze

In 1854, Leutze finished his depiction of the Battle of Monmouth, "Washington rallying the troops at Monmouth," commissioned by an important Leutze patron, banker David Leavitt of New York City and Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Marthe Servine

In the early 1940s, Servine married American Malcolm Dougherty, and around the year 1945 they moved together to Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Matthew Penn

Prior to working in television, Penn spent many years working in theatre and is currently co-artistic director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.


George E. Hinman

Hinman graduated from high school in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1888, and became a newspaperman, working at the Berkshire Courier, published in Great Barrington, as reporter and advertising manager and later as local editor.

John F. Bacon

John F. Bacon (February 2, 1789 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts – February 25, 1860 in Nassau, The Bahamas) was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician from New York.

Massachusetts Route 23

The road passes Catamount Ski Area and the village of South Egremont before merging with Route 41, just west of Great Barrington.

New England Interstate Route 17

It ran from the New York-Massachusetts state line (with the road continuing towards Hudson, New York via modern New York State Route 23 and 23B) through Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut to Westerly, Rhode Island.

Peter Kane Dufault

On June 4, 2010, the documentary film, What I Meant to Tell You: An American Poet’s State of the Union, had its world premiere at the Berkshire International Film Festival in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.


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Karen Christensen

Karen Christensen is an American entrepreneur, environmentalist, and author who cofounded Berkshire Publishing Group in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1998, after working in London at Blackwell Scientific Publications and Faber & Faber.