“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.
The monument and park were built to commemorate what Thomas Reed, who now lives in Tennessee but grew up on Boardman Street, calls an “off-world incident.”
Selectman Martin Mitsoff confirmed to The Edge that the town removed the monument and that the portion of the park on the town right-of-way had been reclaimed.
The town of Sheffield apparently doesn’t want the monument to go anywhere but into the “wilderness.” It came to Sheffield after the Great Barrington Historical Society declared the UFO sighting “historically significant and true.”
“The town doesn’t have a problem with anything but the location of the monument. People can’t just put monuments on town property without board approval.”
-- Nadine Hawver, chair, Sheffield Board of Selectmen.
