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Senior Symposia programming is developed by our board of senior advisors, but is open to participants of all ages. We regret that we can not accept cash or check payment at the door at Senior Symposia events. Unless otherwise indicated, all workshops take place from 2-4 p.m..
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"Cosmology meets storytelling—engrossing!"— What to Do in this Ridiculously Large Universe?Franklin County Trains and Trolleys: Then & Now
$0.00 – $10.00
We’ve been hearing more and more these days about expanding passenger rail service in our region, but what about the trains and trolleys of our past and their contributions to shaping the lives, communities and our region in times gone by? We’ll travel over the Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway trolley route via historical views from photographs and postcards with alternating images of the same location from the early days of railroading and in the present day.
Presented By...
Alden Dryer is a retired Boston and Maine railroad dispatcher, a railroad historian and the author of an autobiographical, historical novel The Tired Telegrapher’s Terribly Tall Traveler’s Tale. Dryer has lived in Shelburne for decades and is chair of the board of the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum.
Sam Bartlett, President of the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, worked on steam locomotive powered trains on the Conway (NH) Scenic Railroad while getting his BS in Electrical Engineering. He also has an MSEE, worked for IBM and Deerfield Controls, taught electrical engineering at GCC and was an electrical engineering consultant for DBA Bartlett Technologies.
