Great Barrington, MA Shirts

The Housatonic makes a slow, patient turn through Great Barrington, and the town has always worked along its banks: mills once, then the railroad, whose brick-block bones still line the downtown blocks. W. E. B. Du Bois was born here in 1868 and spent his boyhood along this river, a fact the town marks with quiet pride at his family homesite and in a riverside garden downtown. Great Barrington today is the busy one among the southern Berkshire towns, the place with the crowded main street, the good coffee, and, a few minutes east, a small ski hill where half the county learned to snowplow. It is a town that manages to be both the errand stop and the destination. Our Great Barrington design braids those threads together: the river running through the composition, the little ski hill rising behind town, a hint of rail iron underfoot. It reads like the town feels, layered and unpretentious and older than it acts. As Great Barrington businesses sign on with ShirtMap, they appear on this page.