River Visions

Visions for the West Branch of the Housatonic River
		Urban River Visions 2, an initiative of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, selected Pittsfield as one of seven cities to help create a vision "to capitalize on the potential of underutilized riverfront sites". Quite a crowd of people, mostly from the neighborhoods along the West Branch of the Housatonic River, gathered at Pitt Park in Pittsfield on Friday, May 11 to give their input into the Urban River Visions 2 Charrette.
The evening started off with an amazing performance by Youth Alive, Pittsfield's step dance and drumming performing group, organized by Shirley Edgerton. (For more on Youth Alive see the article in Berkshires Week)
		There were different kinds of maps and aerial photos of the area from Wahconah Park down to Clapp Park, hung on the walls of the amphitheater. People gathered and put stickers on their houses or sticky-notes where they thought something should happen. NEXT
The following day we moved into Conte School.

Visions for the West Branch of the Housatonic River