One-woman show coming to Shelburne-Buckland Community Center
SHELBURNE FALLS — A one-woman show on the life of Martha Gellhorn, one of the most influential war reporters of the 20th century, will make its way to the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center in honor of Veterans Day.
The event, presented by the Shelburne Falls Area Women’s Club and performed by University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Emerita Jarice Hanson, will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. The performance will last around 40 minutes, after which point attendees can ask questions of both Hanson and “Gellhorn.”
The performance covers the entirety of Gellhorn’s career, with Hanson drawing from Gellhorn’s own news articles, communications with family and novels. The setting is the evening before the United States’ invasion of Panama in 1989, where Gellhorn reflects on her storied career.
Gellhorn, in addition to being one of the few female war reporters during World War II, was the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. The show begins with Hanson, as Gellhorn, saying, “I covered 12 major wars. Thirteen if you count my marriage to Ernest Hemingway.”
Cornucopia Auction & Social returning to The Academy at Charlemont
CHARLEMONT — For the 23rd year, The Academy at Charlemont will host its annual Cornucopia Auction & Social, the school’s largest fundraiser of the year.
The auction takes place on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the academy. Attendees must be at least 21 years old, with all proceeds raised from ticket sales and the auction supporting the school.
New to the event this year is free childcare, with students in 10th through 12th grade offering the service.
Registration for the event can be found at tinyurl.com/vvb8bha5, and tickets cost $45. If you can’t attend in person, the online auction can be found at the same link. For more information, contact atanner@charlemont.org.
Buckland Selectboard to sign letter from Greenfield mayor on tech school
BUCKLAND — The Selectboard, in a unanimous vote, authorized Chair Joan Livingston to sign a letter of support in Greenfield’s request to the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) and Gov. Maura Healey for more state aid following voters’ approval of a new Franklin County Technical School building.
“The mayor of Greenfield is seeking support from all the communities that are in the Franklin Tech Regional School District to appeal to the governor and the higher-ups in [the] state for financial assistance,” Livingston said.
There was a general sense among Selectboard members that signing onto the letter couldn’t hurt, though Vice Chair Clint Phillips said Greenfield might be a little bit behind on the issue.
“This is something that we’ve kind of been preaching to the state for years now — not just with the tech school, but with Mohawk [Trail Regional School],” Phillips said. “It’s been an ongoing issue and it’s now starting to hit bigger communities.”
On the other hand, Phillips said that because Greenfield is a larger community and a city, the state might put a larger magnifying glass on the struggles of the community at large.
“Now it’s a bigger city that’s reaching out to the state and saying, ‘Hey, we need more help,'” Phillips said. “It might help and I hope it does.”