Joshua D. Bloom

“He was charitable. He gave his all. One thing about him was, there was no money involved. He just wanted to do something good for the town and for the people in it.” — Lee veteran and barber Tony Carlino on Joseph Pilates

“The Pillow was but one aspect of my adolescent life, one experience in that time of exploration, discovery, frustration and experiment. But what a vivid aspect…They were doing something there that we knew nothing about, and we approached their establishment with the same tentativeness that we would have displayed toward a helicopter ride through a tunnel of love.” — Lee resident Gordon Hyatt

“Stockbridge has its Playhouse, Lenox its Tanglewood, and Lee—to complete the triangle of the Arts—is to have its Dance Theatre.” — Lucile Foote Smith (Mrs. Henry Wilds Smith) of Lee, founding board member of The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

“Cream puffs, butterflies, panty waists—but not one I knew of tried to evade war service, and the ones in uniform served seriously and without flinching any of the often unheroic chores of the Army.” — Richard V. Happel, The Berkshire Eagle, 1946

“I was always thankful for the newspaper people, and of course they know everything. But no one ever even went near us as a twosome. And I thank the gods that be. And they must have had great appreciation for Shawn to be able to overlook what was common knowledge, not really common knowledge, but among people who were in that.” — Barton Mumaw

“You’ve got me, for as long as I live, as a citizen of Lee. I feel this is my home town. I’m glad to be here.” — Ted Shawn, July 1935

“The interrelations between these institutions and the native hill folk will inevitably tend to grow closer, their influence to spread into the community life.” — Walter Prichard Eaton, 1930