Conversations on the Commons invites you to: Reopening, Part III: Planning for the fall A conversation with Lesley Herzberg and Katie MacDonald It’s official: we’re now in Phase III. While some places are staying closed through the summer, others are back to welcoming the public, with modifications. In these unprecedented times, history organizations across the …
July 2020 archive
Jul 16
Black Artists Who Found Their Voices in the Berkshires
A talk by Dr. Frances Jones-Sneed, co-hosted by The Westside Legends and The Mastheads. Q&A to follow. Facebook link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/668654333995371/ Zoom registration info here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zX9qq1Y5S8-5CO_4zhMv6g?fbclid=IwAR3OVsjdsH4qCp2gvlHSaFhmzwoAOKN3Guut8rlP613fREPGwyX2_zsoGi0 Black Artists Who Found Their Voices in the Berkshires The Westside Legends and The Mastheads have partnered to bring Dr. Frances Jones-Sneed to Pittsfield for a discussion of black …
Jul 06
Oral History Center to hire someone for short-term oral history inventory project
The Housatonic Heritage Oral History Center, working with four local history organizations – Sharon, Kent, and Salisbury, Connecticut, and Sheffield, Massachusetts – will hire someone to conduct oral history inventories in the history organizations of the four towns. The goal of the project is to document numbers and types/formats of oral history recordings and related materials. The …
Jul 03
Reading Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Address
See the link here for the Mass Humanities sponsored virtual readings of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Fourth of July Address, and other events. https://masshumanities.org/events/