There were three main protestant churches in Great Barrington. Most of my family went to the Episcopalian Church. However, we lived close to the Congregational Church. And we join it because my mother knew many of it members and their minister was very friendly.

I grew up in this church and Sunday school. There was a small Methodist Church attended by a few of the not-so-well-known town's folk. And there was the Catholic Church, attended mostly by the Irish.

By my high school years, the town's Black population had grown due to the immigrations of some freed Blacks from the South. They formed a branch of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, which had been newly formed in New York.