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Share Your COVID-19 Experiences

How is COVID-19 affecting our community? On our website, you can read stories, poems, music, art, and photography local people have contributed to a joint effort between Historic Northampton and the Daily Hampshire Gazette. We have joined forces to document local life during this coronavirus pandemic. Already, more than 70 adults, teens, and children have shared thoughts on “life in the key of COVID-19” that will be preserved in our archives for years to come.

We hope you will join those who have already submitted material. Sharing your experiences today will help tomorrow’s historians understand what living through the pandemic meant to people in this area. You can find more details here. <<add url<<Please consider emailing us your submission today.


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While the museum is closed, the grounds are open. Come visit, have a picnic, count the rings on the sugar maple stump that was recently cut down. Draw a picture or play hopscotch on the parking lot.

The gardens and property look beautiful thanks to our amazing volunteers’ recent socially distanced work. Our stalwart volunteer crew weeded, raked, trimmed, hauled, cleaned, painted, ditched, dug, mulched, and caught up with one other—while wearing masks, of course. A big thank you to Pat Aslin, Kay Althoff, Larysa Bachinsky, Shayne Beede, Paige Bridgens, Claire Christopherson, David Cooney, Carolyn Gray, Maureen Flannery, Stephen Harding, Sue Hawes, Bill Holloway, George Kohout, Fred Morrison, Alicia Ralph, Kathy Service, Frank Sleegers, Joyce Snyder, E.J. Welch, and Barbara Wright.
If you’re interested in volunteering on the grounds crew, please email Laurie Sanders.

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When is a barn not a barn? We have just learned that our Shepherd barn, dating to 1805–06, might not have been built as a barn and that it might have been located elsewhere originally. Master timber framer and architect Jack Sobon’s investigations found that the two wide openings for “barn doors” on the long sides weren’t original to the building, that a partition divided barn in half lengthwise, and that the lofts were too low for tall carriages or full hay wagons to pass beneath. For the whole story, with drawings and photographs, read Jack Sobon’s report. <<add url<< If you know of a building as described in the report, please email Elizabeth Sharpe. (link)
 
This project is funded by a generous grant from the Community Preservation Act.


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  • About
    • Visit
    • Board-Staff
    • Employment & Careers
    • Legal/Financial
    • Exhibits >
      • Main Street Exhibit
      • The Sarah Strong Chest
      • Wear It Reproduction Clothing
  • Programs
    • Program Calendar
  • Discover & Learn
    • Research & Reference
    • Educational Websites
    • Collections >
      • Online Collections Catalog
      • Howes Brothers Collection >
        • Howes Brothers Photographers
      • The Gare Collection
      • Properties >
        • Parsons House
        • Damon House
        • Shepherd House
        • Shepherd Barn 2020
        • The Bridge Street School Sprouts
    • Historic Highlights
  • History at Home
    • Videos
    • Interactive Witch Trial
    • Hidden Histories
    • Scavenger Hunts
    • Coloring Pages
    • Brain Teasers
    • Peg Doll Hunts
    • Jonathan Edwards Prayer Requests
  • COVID-19 Stories
    • Submit Your COVID Story
    • Children React
    • Family and Neighborhood Fun
    • It's a New World
    • Hope and Togetherness
    • Images
    • How Illness Feels
    • Brings Forth Memory
    • Blessings and the New Busy
    • Fear and Worry
  • DONATE
    • Make a Donation
    • RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP
    • Become a Member
    • Donate to the Collection
    • Volunteer