North Adams Panopticon

Looming over the Western Massachusetts city of North Adams, Coca-Cola Ledge provides the definitive overview of the area. In North Adams Panopticon, Coca-Cola Ledge becomes a viewing tower into the lives of people living in the state's smallest city and its surrounding area, a high point from which unusual moments in North Adams history are made visible. Unearthing an eclectic parade of petty crimes and unsolved murders, eccentrics and madmen, endless political battles, family secrets, reckless romance, animals gone wild, children on the run, mysterious lights in the sky, and the truth behind the not-at-all legendary Monster of Coca-Cola Ledge, North Adams Panopticon reveals the historical tapestry of strangeness, absurdity, and tragedy that adds to the allure of this particular corner of the Berkshires