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Eastern European Immigration & Industrialization in Massachusetts

April 13, 2024

April 14 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm FREE During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Polish and other Eastern European immigrants arrived in the Connecticut River Valley to begin new lives as small … [Read more...] about Eastern European Immigration & Industrialization in Massachusetts

April 10, 2024

April 13 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm FREE Discover culture and nature through story, poetry, and art in our series of free Art Naturally programs. Using words and images, instruction, and techniques you … [Read more...] about Art Naturally Series: Make Polish Paper Stars!*

March 17, 2024

March 24 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT, FREE Meet at the Montague Bookmill at 440 Greenfield Road in Montague for a showing of the film The Mill at Montague. An oral history time capsule from 1991 … [Read more...] about The Mill at Montague – A Food, Farms, and Factories Sunday Documentary Film

March 1, 2024

March 2 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST FREE A historical presentation on the John Russell Cutlery Company and the Turners Falls community. Part of our Food, Farms, and Factories program series. … [Read more...] about Factory Talk: The John Russell Cutlery Company

February 25, 2024

February 25 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST FREE Food for Change: The Story of Cooperation in America by Steve Alves. A film focusing on food co-ops as a force for dynamic social and … [Read more...] about Food, Farms, and Factories: Sunday Matinee Documentary Series – Food for Change

February 7, 2024

February 11 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST Root Hog or Die by Rawn Fulton and Newbold Noyes. Western Massachusetts farmers describe their lives in the 1970s. Meet Rawn Fulton for a discussion … [Read more...] about Food, Farms, and Factories: Sunday Matinee Documentary Series – Root Hog or Die