The records of the Western Massachusetts locals and district councils of the UBCJA documents the rise of unionization among carpenters in the Connecticut River Valley since the 1880s. This collection represents a merger of separate accessions for the District Councils in Springfield (MS 110), the Pioneer Valley (MS 231), and Holyoke (MS 108), along with post-merger records for Local 108. In general, each has been maintained as a distinct series.
Collection includes statutes and by-laws, minutes, administrative records, correspondence, financial records and receipts, scholarship records, publications, records of programs and events, and artifacts and ephemera.
Comprises typescript, manuscript, email and post-card correspondence between author Annie Proulx and Joel Connaroe, author of books and essays about American poetry and fiction, editor of Six American Poets, and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1985 to 2002 ; with 143 color photographs.
