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  • Henry Knox — On the Knox Trail

    Bangs Center 70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst, MA, United States

    Local media producer Jonathan Barkan will give a multi-media presentation on Henry Knox's efforts to bring the guns of Ticonderoga to aid General Washington in Boston.

  • Lower Mill River Factory Hollow Walking Tour

    If you walk along the Mill River conservation trail in North Amherst today, you will see little to suggest that this small, shaded valley — situated roughly between Pine Street and Pulpit Hill Road — has changed much in the three centuries since Hadley farmers first moved into the area. But a glance at some […]

  • Mill River History Project: What’s New and What’s Next

    Bangs Center 70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst, MA, United States

    Walking along the Mill River conservation trail today there is little to suggest that this quiet valley — situated roughly between Pine Street and Pulpit Hill Road — has changed much in the three centuries since Hadley farmers first moved into the area. But “Factory Hollow” was once the scene of intensive use of the […]

  • Marks of True Sorrow: Funerary Practices & Propaganda in West Cemetery

    “Marks of True Sorrow”: A Guided Cemetery Tour of New England Funerary Practices & Propaganda in the lead up to the American Revolution Elizabeth C. Dearden will lead a cemetery tour of West Cemetery as a case study of funerary symbolism in relation to the antecedent events of the American Revolution. From Puritan iconography to […]

  • Upper Mill River Factory Hollow Walking Tour

    If you walk along the Mill River conservation trail in North Amherst today, you will see little to suggest that this small, shaded valley — situated roughly between Pine Street and Pulpit Hill Road — has changed much in the three centuries since Hadley farmers first moved into the area. But a glance at some […]

  • A Hundred Years of the Jones Library

    Bangs Center 70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst, MA, United States

    The Jones Library building at 43 Amity Street has seen many changes over its near 100-year life, and this presentation will take you on a tour of some of the ways the library has adapted to meet the needs of the thousands of patrons who walk through its doors every year.

  • Dames, Dishes and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America

    Bangs Center 70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst, MA, United States

    In Dames, Dishes, and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America, local author Amy Mittelman reveals what really went on behind ivy-covered walls as she explores the origins, structure, and history of faculty wives’ clubs.

  • The Life and Legacy of Robert Gould Shaw

    Bangs Center 70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst, MA, United States

    The first biography of Shaw in a quarter century, A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw traces his transformation from a rebellious son into one of the Civil War’s most celebrated heroes. Acclaimed historian Kevin M. Levin also reveals the sacrifice and service of the African American men who fought and died for their freedom afresh through Shaw’s eyes.