ABOUT US
ABOUT US
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The mission of Historic Northampton is to collect and preserve Northampton's past and to engage the community in the exploration of our natural, material, and social history.
Historic Northampton preserves objects and documents that illuminate the lives of past residents. Through our programs, exhibits and public projects, Historic Northampton encourages ongoing conversations between past and present.
We create opportunities for our visitors, researchers and collaborators to engage with ideas that are often all the more powerful for being embodied in tangible objects: how previous generations presented themselves, how they worked, and what kind of a community they built. Because civic identity grows out of the way we interpret and articulate our community's past, Historic Northampton is a critical institution in the city. While legally organized as a private non-profit corporation, we are deeply rooted in the community, charged with safeguarding, interpreting and articulating our common identity. For more information about us, see the following: |
Professor Sarah Lynn Patterson reads an excerpt from Frederick Douglass's 1852 speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? at the Reading Frederick Douglass Together event on July 3, 2022.
J. Michael Moore speaking with guests at the launch of his book Images of America: Northampton State Hospital, co-authored with Anna Schuleit Haber
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