Teachers Institute 2019
David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck Street, Florence, MAThe Teachers Institute 2019 will be held on Saturday, June 8, from 9:00-11:30. We will meet at the David Ruggles Center for History and Education located at 225 Nonotuck Street in Florence, MA. Join fellow educators as we roll out our new curriculum for visiting school groups to the Ruggles Center. We put the same [...]
Guided Tour: Lydia Maria Child and Sugar Beets
Grow Food Northampton Meadow St, Florence, MA, United StatesTom Goldscheider and Faith Deering will be discussing Lydia Maria Child and her Sugar Beet experiment. No tour of the African American Heritage Trail. Note that this tour is at a special place and time: Grow Food Northampton Farm on Meadow Street.
Guided Tour
Steve Strimer will be leading a tour of the African American Heritage Trail and Underground Railroad starting from the David Ruggles Center.
Guided Tour
Soujourner Truth Memorial Statue- at the corner of Park and Pine 121 Pine St, Florence, MA, United StatesWendy Sinton will be leading a tour of Sojourner Truth's Florence from starting from the Sojourner Statue.
Guided Tour
David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck Street, Florence, MATom Goldscheider will be leading a tour on the Northampton Association starting from the David Ruggles Center.
Educator’s Picnic
David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck Street, Florence, MAJoin Prof. Ousmane Power-Greene as he shares his experiences teaching U.S. History at Wuhan University in Central China. Also learn about our new Middle and High School curriculum.
Historic Significance of Flax and Sugar Beets
Grow Food Northampton Meadow St, Florence, MA, United StatesGrow Food Northampton and Ruggles Center members will present on the uses and historical significance of two crops we have grown at the garden this year: flax and sugar beets.
Basil Dorsey Day
Florence Civic Center 90 Park St., Florence, MA, United StatesCelebrate Basil Dorsey Day! Author Bob Drinkwater will give a slide show presentation on his new book, In Memory of Susan Freedom: Searching for Gravestones of African Americans in Western Massachusetts. Basil Dorsey's family and Florence's Park Street Cemetery feature large in the discussion.
David Ruggles: Local Hero & Abolitionist Leader
Celebrate Black History Month with this program about David Ruggles.
2021 Founders Day Symposium: The Fight for Equality in 1840’s Florence
2021 Annual Founders Day Symposium The FIGHT for EQUALITY in FLORENCE: The Northampton Association, David Ruggles, and Their Legacy Today Thursday April 8, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. on ZOOM Register HERE for the David Ruggles Center’s Annual Founders Day Symposium. The Northampton Association of Education and Industry (NAEI) was founded in Florence on this date in [...]