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Founder Day: Museum Open
Founder Day: Museum Open
The museum at the David Ruggles Center for History and Education will be open Saturday April 8 In honor of the founding of the Northampton Association for Education And Industry and the David Ruggles Center. Come see exhibits about some of the amazing abolitionists who lived in Florence in the 1840s and 1850s who worked [...]
Founders’ Day Walking Tour: Commemorating the DRC’s 15th Anniversary
Founders’ Day Walking Tour: Commemorating the DRC’s 15th Anniversary
Please join Steve Strimer on a public walking tour on April 8, 2023, commemorating the 15th anniversary of the founding of the David Ruggles Center for History and Education. On April 8 we also honor the 141st anniversary of the founding of the Northampton Association of Education and Industry (NAEI). The NAEI, founded in what [...]
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David Ruggles Center 2023 Founders Day Symposium: “Lydia Maria Child in Florence and a Tribute to John H. Bracey, Jr.” Cohosted by Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity.
David Ruggles Center 2023 Founders Day Symposium: “Lydia Maria Child in Florence and a Tribute to John H. Bracey, Jr.” Cohosted by Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity.
Our guest speaker is Prof. Lydia Moland, the author of an acclaimed new biography of Lydia Maria Child, a key figure in the national movement to abolish slavery who spent critical years living in Florence. Her talk will be preceded by a tribute to John H. Bracey, Jr.: author, activist, scholar and professor in the [...]