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Berkshire edge editorials10/12/2023 Is it now changing? What if the climate is becoming harsher? What if the weather is less predictable, the seasons less well defined, the winds stronger, the rain harder, the storms more destructive? How very lucky we have been to enjoy earth's "clement climate". A National Grid representative will know it. The caller can't provide the last five digits of your National Grid account number when asked. The caller is someone you cannot identify.The caller demands immediate payment by wire transfer or prepaid card (National Grid doesn't accept payment through these cards).The caller seeks payment when your account is current.You are threatened with immediate service termination (this is NOT our procedure).It is not National Grid on the phone, and it probably is a scam if. NEWS SU FYI An advisory from National Grid This issue has bookends - it starts and ends with the people of Stockbridge - the prominent and the salt of the earth. If Stockbridge was and is exceptional, it is her people who made it so. Right now, our population includes people significant in industry - credit, cosmetics, and food - people significant in medicine, government, and the press. They were talking about the famous, interesting people who once lived in Stockbridge when they realized. In town, lived Marge Champion from the silver screen and Maureen Stapleton from the Great White Way. Just down the street, Katherine Hepburn launched her career. In that century, Erik Erikson and Norman Rockwell, the definer of psychosocial development and the illustrator of a kind of psychosocial perfection, lived across the street from one another. Up on the Hill and down along Main Street are the homes of those who transformed America - changed it from agricultural America into manufacturing America and ushered in the twentieth century. Step into the next century and find members of FDR's Brain Trust and members of America's richest families - old money, new money, and the New Deal rubbed shoulders on Stockbridge Main Street. Stephen was one of three Supreme Court Justices raised and educated in Stockbridge. Just turn your head and there was the home of the Fabulous Fields - David Dudley, codifier of the NY Criminal Code, brother Cyrus W, the man who laid the transatlantic cable, and Stephen, named to the Supreme Court by Abraham Lincoln. Timothy's house was sold to Barnabus Bidwell, Attorney General of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson's righthand man. Both men had exceptional daughters - Esther Edwards married Aaron Burr Sr., and Catherine Sedgwick was an internationally known author. Across the street was the outstanding lawyer and friend of George Washington, Theodore Sedgwick. Timothy's house (and store) was just down the street from the house of his father - the great theologian Jonathan Edwards. After smallpox wiped out his family, Timothy raised his nephew, Aaron Burr. Standing on Main Street in the eighteenth century, there was the house of Timothy Edwards. EDITORIAL Editorial: Bookend - Famous People of Stockbridgeįor a remote village whose population never rose above 2500 - even as the population of the country rose exponentially from 3 million to 300 million - Stockbridge sure attracted many exceptional people.
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