FACTBOX: Faces of the BerkShares currency
(Reuters) - Facts about BerkShares, an alternative currency used in western Massachusetts, and other scrip:
What's on the BerkShare?
1 BerkShare -- unidentified member of the Mohican tribe, the original inhabitants of the area
5 BerkShares -- W.E.B. DuBois, early civil rights leader who was born in Great Barrington in 1868.
10 BerkShares -- Robyn Van En, leader of local community agriculture programs who died in 1997
20 BerkShares -- Herman Melville, who wrote much of Moby Dick in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
50 BerkShares -- Norman Rockwell, creator of images of mid-20th Century life who lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Some other local currencies
Ithaca Hours -- Ithaca, New York
Humboldt Community Currency -- Eureka, California
Bay Bucks -- Traverse City, Michigan
Cascadia Hour Exchange Hours -- Portland, Oregon
Burlington Bread -- Burlington, Vermont
(Compiled by Scott Malone in Boston)
