For anyone interested - I will be speaking later this year at the Bidwell House Museum in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, though the event will actually be taking place at a larger venue. Stay tuned for details.
The event is scheduled to take place on Wednesday September 23, 2026. It will also be a preview of my forthcoming 700-800 page eleventh book that I have been working on extensively with New York author and historian Warren Broderick, titled, A Monumental History: Stories of Red Earthenware Production in Western Massachusetts, the Berkshires and Vermont. This is an overview of the event, although the museum should be announcing the details soon!
"Western Massachusetts has a rich history inhabited by various Native American tribes, which was later settled by English Puritans in places like Springfield, Massachusetts and the Connecticut River Valley Region in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The region also has a history of red earthenware production dating to the 1700s, later followed by stoneware in the 1800s. The most successful type may have been the black glazed teapots produced in Whately, Massachusetts. However, red earthenware production seems to have been more widespread in the 1700s with some production that can be traced back to the Charlestown and South Danvers, Massachusetts areas before the American Revolution.
A significant portion of Western Massachusetts's regional production is also linked to the manufacturing landscape of neighboring Vermont. While some of this regional connection was previously overlooked by historians, recent research has uncovered a bustling network of a few dozen or so red earthenware companies operating throughout Vermont during the late 1700s and 1800s. This newly documented data reshapes the understanding of early New England pottery exchange, revealing how deeply the artisans and economic markets of the two regions were intertwined in the 1800s."
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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