Monson Motor Lodge manager, James Brock, dumps acid into his motel's pool to try to disrupt swimmers protesting the hotel's white's-only policy in June 1964. Photo by Bill Lyon/UPI ST.

FLORIDA — A mountaintop motor lodge with views of the Northern Berkshire hills is open with a new name and a new lease on life. The Blue Vista Motor Lodge, at the Whitcomb Summit of Florida Mountain, ...