The David Ruggles Center for History and Education is open for visitors Sundays 12-4 from June 5- September 25. Current exhibits include: ~David Ruggles: At the Vanguard of Liberty ~“The Spirit Calls Me There”: Sojourner Truth in Florence, 1844-1857 ~Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist ~People, Places, and Paper: The Underground Railroad in Northampton and Florence Visitors [...]
The Ruggles Center is partnering with the Friends of Northampton Trails (FNT) for its second annual “Florence Utopian Bike Tour”. We meet on Saturday, October 1, at 9:30 at the Florence Civic Center and ride four miles in and around the village. Along the way we will learn about the radical abolitionists who formed a [...]