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Amherst Indy January 28, 2022 0

Source: UMass News and Media Costume design visionary Ruth E. Carter will be giving the...

Amherst Indy January 28, 2022 1

Source: UMass Department of History Street photographer Jill Freedman (1939 – 2019) spent her life with her...

Jeff Lee December 30, 2021 0

The world mourns the passing of South African clergyman Desmond Tutu who died on December 26...

Janet Keller December 3, 2021 0

Amherst does not need a parking garage. This is supported by the Nelson/Nygard (N/N) studies....

Ken Rosenthal October 22, 2021 1

In her letter about the Jones Library in the Amherst Bulletin, my friend Susan Tracy,...

Amherst Indy October 8, 2021 1

Source: amherstma.gov Amherst’s rich literary history is now more visible and interactive with the recent...

Hetty Startup October 1, 2021 1

Biographies are often the ways we get introduced to writers in our midst. In Amherst,...

Boone Shear October 1, 2021 2

A note from the series editor: A reckoning is upon us. More and more...

Russ Vernon-Jones August 13, 2021 0

Conservatives in the U.S. have been attacking Critical Race Theory (CRT), or what they think is Critical...

Stephen Braun July 30, 2021 2

By the mid-19th -century most of rural New England resembled Ireland or northern Scotland—treeless hills...

Amherst Indy July 23, 2021 0

Source: amherstma.gov The Civil War Tablets donated to the Town of Amherst in 1893 will...

Amilcar Shabazz July 9, 2021 0

The annual communal reading of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the 4th of...