Butrimonys

Butrimonys (Yiddish: באַלטרימאַנטז Baltrimantz, Polish:Butrymańce) is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. In 2001 it had a population of 1126. Its most famous son was Bernard Berenson (1865-1959), a famous and still influential American art historian. Senda Berenson, known as the Mother of Women's Basketball, was born here March 19, 1868. Berenson introduced basketball to women in 1892 at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, a year after being first invented by James Naismith. She also authored the first Basketball Guide for Women (1901–07).