Upcoming Programs
~ IMPORTANT NOTICE ~
Historic Northampton is closed temporarily
due to the coronavirus outbreak.
All indoor programs have been cancelled
and will be rescheduled at a later date.
No on-site research appointments will take place.
Questions? Email info@historicnorthampton.org
due to the coronavirus outbreak.
All indoor programs have been cancelled
and will be rescheduled at a later date.
No on-site research appointments will take place.
Questions? Email info@historicnorthampton.org
This program is postponed. We plan to reschedule at a later date.
Chosen Family: Men's & Women's Support Groups
A Public Talk by author Tom Weiner
A Public Talk by author Tom Weiner
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Northampton author Tom Weiner will read from his new book Chosen Family: Men’s and Women’s Support Groups, An Inside Look (Human Error Publishing, 2019).
For over 40 years, Northampton author and former Smith Campus School teacher Tom Weiner has been a member of a men’s group. Weiner explores how people’s lives have been enriched by participating in support groups. His interviews with 27 men and women, between the ages of 28 and 68, reveal how group participation shapes self-perceptions, relationships, and inter-generational dynamics. Books will be available for purchase for $18 and signing. Location
Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA |
Sunday, March 15, 2020 | 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Exploring Northampton Series
A Sunset Amble in the Northampton Meadows
A Sunset Amble in the Northampton Meadows
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Join co-director and naturalist Laurie Sanders for a walk down Hockanum Road to the site of the former Hockanum Ferry on the Connecticut River. The return leg will coincide with the sunset, which is one of the most beautiful times to be in the Meadows and view the Holyoke Range. There is also a good chance that the timing will coincide with the arrival of hundreds of red-winged blackbirds, ducks and geese, which spend the night in the Meadows on their migration north.
Sponsored by Sonix Pro Audio
Location
You will be provided with the meeting location by email. Admission $8 members and donors | $12 all others Registration Registration is full. |
This program is postponed. We plan to reschedule at a later date.
Living History Series
A Conversation with Bob Cilman, Director of the Young@Heart Chorus
and the former director of the Northampton Arts Council
A Conversation with Bob Cilman, Director of the Young@Heart Chorus
and the former director of the Northampton Arts Council
Bob Cilman
Photograph by Julian Parker Burns |
Join us for this special evening recognizing Bob Cilman, who has been director of the Young@Heart Chorus since 1982 and was the Director of the Northampton Arts Council from 1989-2014. The chorus (ranging in age from 75-92) began in the Walter Salvo House, a Northampton elderly housing project as "a way to pass the time." Under Cilman’s leadership, it has developed into the stereotype-defying, generation-crossing musical extravaganza. The Chorus has performed on The Ellen Show and The TonightShow, toured internationally and has been the subject of the hit Fox Searchlight documentary, Young@Heart. His work with the Arts Council included the creation of the Four Sundays in February Series and Transperformance. Cilman will look back at his early years in Northampton and how this work all got started.
Sponsored by Smith College & A.P.E. Ltd.
Location
Northampton Community Arts Trust Building 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA Admission $10 members and donors | $15 all others Registration Pre-registration is recommended. |
This program is postponed. We plan to reschedule at a later date.
Making it on Main Street Lecture Series
Ladies Notice: Dressmaking and Millinery on Main Street in Nineteenth-Century Northampton
A Public Talk by Lynne Zacek Bassett, Costume and Textile Historian
A Public Talk by Lynne Zacek Bassett, Costume and Textile Historian
Two-piece silk dress, 1881, made by the dressmaking shop of Mary Ferry and Mary Dickinson on Main Street in Northampton.
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An 1891 article in the Hampshire Gazette asked how Northampton's "excess of women" made their living. In Northampton, the answer for over 200 women was making dresses and hats.
In this richly illustrated lecture, costume and textile historian (and former Historic Northampton curator) Lynne Z. Bassett will examine the 19th-century millinery (hat making) and dressmaking trades in Northampton. She will focus particularly on the Dickinson family, who dominated the millinery trade in Hampshire County for most of the century, and dressmakers represented by dresses now in Historic Northampton's collection. Sponsored by Conklin Office Furniture, Holyoke, MA
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