Activist John Dear To Speak on “The Road to Peace” March 14

February 27, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.—Fr. John Dear, a Jesuit priest and peace activist, will speak on “The Road to Peace: Walking the Way of Gospel Nonviolence” on Wednesday, March 14, at 7 p.m. in Johnson Chapel at Amherst College. Fr. Dear’s talk will be free and open to the public.

Fr. John Dear has written 17 books on peace and justice, most recently Living Peace (2001) and Jesus the Rebel (2000.) He has served as the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an interfaith antiwar organization, and worked with the homeless in New York City, where he lives, and in Richmond, Virginia. Fr. Dear, a graduate of Duke University, taught theology at Fordham University and has also edited books by or about Henri Nouwen, Daniel Berrigan and Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan.

His work in shelters, soup kitchens and community centers has taken Fr. Dear around the world, to Iraq, El Salvador, Guatemala and Northern Ireland. A disarmament protest earned Fr. Dear nearly a year in prison. After his arrest for attempting to beat a F15-E fighter-bomber into a plowshare at a North Carolina air base, the Raleigh News & Observer opined “The criminal justice system has plenty of genuinely bad guys to worry about. Let it concentrate on those who inflict real damage on the world, not on those who are trying to save it.” Fr. Dear has been arrested more than 75 times for acts of civil disobedience.

Fr. Dear’s talk is sponsored by the Amherst College Newman Club and Community Outreach Program, and Pax Christi of Amherst, Mass.

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Pianist Robert Levin Presents Music at Amherst March 13

February 23, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.—Pianist Robert Levin will present the next concert in the 2000-01 Music at Amherst Series on Tuesday, March 13, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College. Levin’s program will include the Schubert piano sonata in D major, D. 850, Op. 53; 29 Fireflies, Book 4 of Thomas Oboe Lee; and Franck’s Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue.

Robert Levin has been heard throughout the world on piano and fortepiano, with the orchestras of Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal and Vienna with conductors including Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle and Joseph Silverstein, and with the Academy of Ancient Music, the London Classical Players and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, with Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan, Sir Roger Norrington and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. He has performed frequently at such festivals as Sarasota, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Bremen, Lockenhaus and the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. As a chamber musician, he has performed for many years with violist Kim Kashkashian and the New York Philomusica.

The New York Times wrote of a Levin performance, “It is hard to imagine a more satisfying evening... a recital of high intelligence and strong emotions—one of those rare occasions when knowing about music, and feeling it, become interchangeable processes... heart and mind functioned as a single unit.”

In addition to his playing, Levin is a theorist and scholar and has written a number of articles and essays on Mozart. Robert Levin studied piano with Louis Martin and composition with Stefan Wolpe in New York. He worked with Nadia Boulanger in Paris before attending Harvard. Since graduating, he has taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, the School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, the Conservatoire americain in France, and the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik in Germany. He is now the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.

Admission to the concert is $18, senior citizens $15, and students $5. Tickets may be reserved by calling 413/542-2195 on weekday mornings. The Amherst College Concert Office has a Website at http://www.amherst.edu/~concerts/.

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Poet Forrest Gander To Give Public Reading March 12

February 23, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass—The Amherst College Creative Writing Center will present a reading by Forrest Gander on Monday, March 12, at 8 p.m. in Porter Lounge in Converse Hall at Amherst College. The event is free and open to the public.

Forrest Gander was born in Barstow, in the Mojave Desert, in 1956. The editor of Mouth to Mouth (Milkweed Editions) a bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poets, he is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Science & Steepleflower from New Directions. His other titles include Rush to the Lake (Alice James Books), Lynchburg (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Deeds of Utmost Kindness (Wesleyan University Press). He is the recipient of two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Writing and a Whiting Award for Writers. His critical essays appear in The Nation, The Boston Review and The Providence Journal, among other places. Together with C.D. Wright, he co-edits the literary book press Lost Roads Publishers and keeps a small orchard outside Providence. He teaches at Harvard University.

The Amherst College Creative Writing Center puts on a yearly reading series featuring both emerging and established authors. Future events in the 2000-01 series include a reading by Agha Shahid Ali and a celebration of the work of James Merrill. See the Center’s Website, http://www.amherst.edu/~cwc, for more information.

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Hot New Band “Klezperanto” at Frontroom March 10

February 19, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.—Klezperanto, a hot new world beat dance band from Boston, will host a party at the Campus Center Frontroom at Amherst College at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 10. The event is free and the public is invited.

Klezperanto has solid roots in the klezmer tradition, a lively folk dance music that grew in the Yiddish communities of Eastern Europe, and combines technical virtuosity with a wry sense of humor. But as the Boston Globe has noted, Klezperanto is “not your zayde’s klezmer. Clarinetist Ilene Stahl heads up this whirlwind of a band, which turns Klezmer, zydeco, rockabilly and various other ethnic sounds into a dance mix so potent it should carry a warning label.”

Klezperanto joins Mediterranean melodies in original arrangements that dip into zydeco, rockabilly, funk, New Orleans second-line, cumbia, Balkan brass band surf music and whatever else the band is into on a given night. According to Stahl, a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, “the unifying idea is that of an irresistible dance groove. If music is a universal language, then dance music is even more so, because the urge to move to a beat is so primal.”

The name Klezperanto plays with this universal ideal. It evokes memories of Yiddish, which combined Hebrew, Slavic and German elements into a lingua franca for Jews in the Diaspora. Dr. Ludwig Zamenhoff, a Yiddish-speaking Jew from Bialystok, further expanded this idea with the invention of Esperanto, a pan-European language that he hoped would bring understanding between people spanning national boundaries and cultural distinctions. “Klezperanto is a new universal language,” Stahl says, ‘the one you speak with your feet.”

Klezperanto, featured on NPR’s “The Connection with Christopher Lydon” and “The World,” returns to Western Massachusetts after an electrifying performance at Mass MoCA last August. The band has a Website with audio clips at http://www.klezperanto.com.The Klezperanto party is sponsored by the Amherst College Program Board and Music Department and Hillel of Amherst and Smith Colleges.

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Piano and Violin Recital March 8

February 19, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.—Dana Gooley, the Valentine Professor of Music at Amherst College, and Meesun Hong, a student in violin performance at the Juilliard School, will perform a program of works for piano and violin by Prokofiev, Mozart, Ravel and Schumann, on Thursday, March 8, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College.

The program will include Schumann’s Sonata in a-minor for violin and piano, op.105, Mozart’s Sonata in B-flat, K.454, Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante defunte and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, op. 80.

Dana Gooley studied piano at New England Conservatory with Leonard Shure and Jacob Maxin, and earned a doctorate in musicology at Princeton University. He performs often in Berlin as a jazz pianist and vocal accompanist.

Meesun Hong is a second year master’s degree student in violin performance at the Juilliard School of Music, under the tutelage of Ronald Copes. She is a graduate of Princeton University and has performed extensively as a soloist all over Europe as well as the United States. Hong has worked with such renowned musicians as Robert Mann, Donald Weilerstein, Felix Galimir, Isadore Cohen, Steve Mackey and Dorothy Delay.

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Mead Art Museum Reopens with Exhibit by Noted Photographer Emmet Gowin

February 16, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass. The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, reopening March 3 following an 18-month facility renovation, will inaugurate its new gallery space with a retrospective of noted landscape photographer Emmet Gowin from March 2 through April 22. The artist will give a public talk on Friday, March 2, at 4:30 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium, with an artist's reception at 8:30 p.m. in the Mead Art Museum. Admission to both events is free.

Since the mid-1960s, Emmet Gowin has concentrated on two separate but related subjects: physical changes to the human form and human alteration to the earth's topography. His luminous black and white photographs, whether of intimate family encounters or infinite aerial vistas of the Earth -- celebrate the mysteries of the natural world, of human existence and of creation.

Inspired by such diverse photographers as Robert Frank, Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer and Walker Evans, Gowin approaches his subjects with a reverence for their actuality and a concern that the fixed set of relationships reflect both its parts and our own feelings. Edith Gowin has long served as the primary model and muse for her husband's work, and he considers his images of her among his most important work. The portraits of her, spanning some 30 years, resonate with joy, humor and love born of emotional and physical intimacy as well as collaboration. Imbued with playfulness, honesty and dignity, these portraits detail the nuances of the aging process and the deepening strength of their marital and intellectual relationship.

Gowin's landscape work is an outgrowth of his domestic concerns. To him, landscapes "are our setting, our world, and our experience of a future we will not live to see. They carry our sentiments towards a future that only our children's children will be able to verify." Gowin's aerial photographs of the American West, dating from the mid '80s through the '90s, convey the abstract beauty of natural land forms marked by the disquieting scars of human activity. A 1980 project documenting the eruption of Mount Saint Helens from the air, prompted Gowin to shift his attention from natural cataclysms to manmade changes. He first saw the nuclear landscape flying over the abandoned city of Old Hanford on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, where the first reactors had been built to make plutonium for the atomic bomb. Since then, he has produced aerial photographs of the "Nuclear Heartland" in Arizona and Nevada.

Viewed from above, irrigation systems, nuclear test sites and waste dumps appear as elegant lines and textures in these subtly toned prints. The inherent duality in these images relates to Gowin's philosophy of photography and vision: "Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge."

As part of The Mead Art Museum's re-opening season, another new show, "The World Opened Wide: 20th-Century Russian Women Artists" will be on display from March 3 until May 31. This show is the first to draw on the Thomas P. Whitney '37 Collection of Russian Art, a recent donation to Amherst of works created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by artists in Russia and in exile.

The Mead Art Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and until 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Admission and parking are free. For information call: 413/542-2335 or consult the Website http://www.amherst.edu/~mead. The Gowin exhibition and his lecture are sponsored in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony With Amherst College Orchestra and Chorus March 4

February 15, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.—The Amherst College Choral Society, directed by Mallorie Chernin, and the Amherst College Orchestra, conducted by Lanfranco Marcelletti, will perform the Symphony No. 9 of Beethoven on Sunday, March 4, at 3 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. No reservations can be accepted and early arrival is recommended.

The Amherst College Choral Society numbers approximately 130 singers, performing a variety of choral works ranging from medieval madrigals to modern music. Mallorie Chernin has directed the choir since 1986.

The Amherst College Orchestra is made up of about 50 Amherst students, as well as students from neighboring colleges and community members. In addition to his conducting duties at Amherst, Lanfranco Marcelletti is the principal conductor of the Franciscan Chamber Orchestra in Albany, New York.

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Goldsby Receives National Science Foundation Grant

February 15, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.— The National Science Foundation recently announced a grant to Richard A. Goldsby, professor of biology and John Woodruff Simpson Lecturer at Amherst College. Goldsby will receive an estimated grant of $104,787 for continued work on a project called “Early Guest Ig Expression and Diversity in Cloned Transgenic Cattle.” This study should help determine if cows carrying human genes, specifically immonoglobulin (Ig) genes, can produce antibodies that will work in people.

Combined with an earlier NSF grant, Goldsby will receive a total of $204,102. This project will also contribute to the education and training of undergraduate students who will participate in this research at Amherst College.

The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest more than $3 billion a year in almost 20,000 research and education projects. Amherst College is currently using some $2 million in such grants.

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Mead Art Museum Reopens with Exhibit by Noted Photographer Emmet Gowin

February 15, 2001
Director of Media Relations
413/542-8417

AMHERST, Mass.—The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, reopening March 3 following an 18-month facility renovation, will inaugurate its new gallery space with a retrospective of noted landscape photographer Emmet Gowin from March 2 through April 22. The artist will give a public talk on Friday, March 2, at 4:30 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium, with an artist’s reception at 8:30 p.m. in the Mead Art Museum. Admission to both events is free.

Since the mid-1960s, Emmet Gowin has concentrated on two separate but related subjects: physical changes to the human form and human alteration to the earth’s topography. His luminous black and white photographs, whether of intimate family encounters or infinite aerial vistas of the Earth -- celebrate the mysteries of the natural world, of human existence and of creation.

Inspired by such diverse photographers as Robert Frank, Harry Callahan, Frederick Sommer and Walker Evans, Gowin approaches his subjects with a reverence for their actuality and a concern that the fixed set of relationships reflect both its parts and our own feelings. Edith Gowin has long served as the primary model and muse for her husband’s work, and he considers his images of her among his most important work. The portraits of her, spanning some 30 years, resonate with joy, humor and love born of emotional and physical intimacy as well as collaboration. Imbued with playfulness, honesty and dignity, these portraits detail the nuances of the aging process and the deepening strength of their marital and intellectual relationship.

Gowin’s landscape work is an outgrowth of his domestic concerns. To him, landscapes “are our setting, our world, and our experience of a future we will not live to see. They carry our sentiments towards a future that only our children’s children will be able to verify.” Gowin's aerial photographs of the American West, dating from the mid ’80s through the ’90s, convey the abstract beauty of natural land forms marked by the disquieting scars of human activity. A 1980 project documenting the eruption of Mount Saint Helens from the air, prompted Gowin to shift his attention from natural cataclysms to manmade changes. He first saw the nuclear landscape flying over the abandoned city of Old Hanford on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, where the first reactors had been built to make plutonium for the atomic bomb. Since then, he has produced aerial photographs of the “Nuclear Heartland” in Arizona and Nevada.

Viewed from above, irrigation systems, nuclear test sites and waste dumps appear as elegant lines and textures in these subtly toned prints. The inherent duality in these images relates to Gowin’s philosophy of photography and vision: “Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.”

As part of The Mead Art Museum’s re-opening season, another new show, "The World Opened Wide: 20th-Century Russian Women Artists" will be on display from March 3 until May 31. This show is the first to draw on the Thomas P. Whitney ‘37 Collection of Russian Art, a recent donation to Amherst of works created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by artists in Russia and in exile.

The Mead Art Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and until 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Admission and parking are free. For information call: 413/542-2335 or consult the Website http://www.amherst.edu/~mead. The Gowin exhibition and his lecture are sponsored in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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Shobha Vasudevan To Perform Vocal Music of South India

February 15, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.—Shobha Vasudevan, a Copeland Fellow in the Music Department at Amherst College, will perform vocal music of south India, accompanied by K. V. S. Vinay playing violin and David Nelson on mrdangam, a double-headed Indian drum, on Friday, March 2, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College. The concert is free and open to the public.

Shobha Vasudevan began her study of Carnatic music at age five. The Carnatic style, one of the world’s oldest and richest musical traditions, was developed in southern India in the 13th century. The basic form is a monophonic song with improvised variations.

When Vasudevan was ten years old she began performing and won many awards, most notably at the Music Academy in Madras. She earned a master of arts in music at the University of Madras, and has also studied at the Sibelius Academy in Finland. She has performed in many prestigious Sabhas, or music organizations, in Madras.

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Reports From Iraq Under Sanctions Feb. 21

February 14, 2001
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AMHERST, MA—Lauren Cannon and Tom Jackson will bring “Reports from Basra 2000: Living under Sanctions” on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center Theater at Amherst College. Their firsthand report of the effects of sanctions on the people of Iraq is free and open to the public.

Cannon, 30, will speak about her recent experiences in Iraq. She traveled to Iraq in 1998 to witness the effects of sanctions on the people of Iraq, to bring donated medical supplies and to break the embargo, risking a $1 million fine and 12 years in prison. Last summer Cannon was one of six delegates who lived in Iraq for eight weeks as members of the “Basra 2000 Project.”

Tom Jackson will give the premiere presentation of his documentary video, “Greetings from Missile Street.” The film is based on the “Basra 2000 Project” in which delegates lived with Iraqi families in the Al-Jumhuriya district of the southern port city of Basra. Jackson was also one of the six who lived in Basra as part of the project.

“The Basra 2000 Project” is the work of Voices in the Wilderness, a Chicago-based campaign to lift the economic sanctions against Iraq. After first going to Iraq, Cannon organized non-violent demonstrations calling to end the production of the Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, which were used against Iraq, at the Raytheon Corporation in Andover, Mass. She served 30 days in a maximum-security prison for women for this action at the weapons plant. Cannon has also become a war tax resister since seeing the effects of the bombings in the “southern no-fly zone” of Iraq in '98.

The program is sponsored by the Nuclear Weapons Abolition Task Force of the Franklin/Hampshire Chapter of CPPAX, Amherst College Community Outreach Program, Traprock Peace Center, Northampton Committee to Lift the Sanctions and Stop the Bombing of Iraq, American Friends Service Committee, NOOR and the Amherst College Center for Religious Life.

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Abiodun Addresses Cross-Cultural Translation in New African Art Book

February 12, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.— In his preface to the groundbreaking and recently released A History of Art in Africa ($85, 544 pp., Prentice-Hall/Abrams, New York 2001), Professor Rowland Abiodun, John C. Newton Professor of Fine Arts and Black Studies at Amherst College, argues that the field of African art studies has been vexed by the problem of cross-cultural translation.

African art scholars, Abiodun writes, must consider the African perspective as well as the formerly dominant Western view. This will enable them to deal with the challenges presented by the visual art traditions of the pre-colonial peoples of Africa, who did not write. Scholars must also avoid the error of thinking that if an idea about art in another culture does not take the form we are familiar with in the West, it must be absent.

As an illustration, Abiodun points out that the biases of early researchers led them to assume that authorship of art works was unimportant among African people, preventing scholars from diligently probing for the artists' full given names—names which were referred to in abundance, if one knew where to look. Abiodun notes the irony that the myth of African anonymity has been so highly valued by art historians who, conversely, celebrate heroic geniuses such as Picasso who were inspired by African forms.

Rowland Abiodun has been a member of the Amherst faculty since 1988. His scholarly interests are in aesthetics and interrelationships of verbal and visual arts in Africa, and he is the co-author and co-editor of several books on Yoruba art and aesthetics.

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Black Maria Film + Video Festival Feb. 26

February 12, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.—The 20th annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival will present an evening of independent film and video in Stirn Auditorium at Amherst College on Monday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. The screening is free and open to the public.

Black Maria is a competitive festival judged by film curators from the Museum of Modern Art and the New York Film Festival, among others. These are short movies made by non-commercial filmmakers whose work, according to festival guidelines, must show “artistic imagery, dynamic production values and concern for the human condition.”

The festival originated in New Jersey and was named for a tar-paper shack at the Edison Laboratories where the very first films—all films were short and experimental then—were made in the 1890s. The tar paper reminded workers of a police wagon, commonly called a “Black Maria.”

John Columbus, the founder and director of Black Maria, teaches filmmaking at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He was inspired to make films by a childhood visit to Edison Labs.

Columbus asks, “We appreciate short stories and short poems, we appreciate small etchings and watercolors and minuets, why can’t we appreciate the short art form in film? Unfortunately, our perception and definition has been circumscribed by the Hollywood model, which is narrative storytelling in chronological order. After more than 100 years, why can’t we expand our idea of what film can be?”

The Thomas Edison Black Maria Film-Video Festival is sponsored in part by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Its appearance at Amherst is sponsored by the Amherst College Department of English. Its Website is at http://ellserver1.njcu.edu/TAEBMFF/bmff/bmff_home.html

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Amherst and Williams Colleges Receive Mellon Grant To Plan For Faculty Needs

February 8, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.—The Trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have approved a grant of $91,000 to Amherst College to use in collaboration with Williams College to help plan to address needs for faculty career enhancement.

Tom Gerety and Morton Schapiro, the presidents of Amherst and Williams, in their application for this grant, expressed their hope that it would “enable us to examine a broad range of issues that affect faculty during their professional lives, such as juggling teaching and research at a liberal arts college, the challenge of employing new pedagogies and technologies, and the need for long-range professional planning.”

Amherst’s Faculty Career Enhancement Project will be directed by Rose Olver, L. Stanton Williams ’41 Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and Michele Barale, Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies. At Williams College, James B. Wood, Willmott Family 3rd Century Professor of History, George R. Goethals, Webster Atwell Class of 1921 Professor of Psychology, and Karen B. Kwitter, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy, will oversee the project.

Founded in 1821, Amherst College enrolls approximately 1,650 students from nearly every state and 48 other countries. Amherst offers the B.A. degree in 33 fields of study. Founded in 1793, Williams College enrolls approximately 2,000 students from nearly every state and 50 other countries. Williams offers the B.A. degree, with 31 majors plus concentrations and special programs.

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Dickinson Homestead Opens for the Season March 3

February 8, 2001
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AMHERST, Mass.— The Dickinson Homestead, home of the poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), at 280 Main St. in Amherst, Mass., will open for its 2001 season on Saturday, March 3. The Homestead—the birthplace and home of the poet for 40 years—is open for guided tours from March through mid-December.

New this year is an exhibit “in progress” of the Emily Dickinson bedroom, the recent subject of a historic furnishing report to investigate the room’s appearance during the poet’s lifetime. Also now available for sale at the Homestead is a new publication, The Poet at Home, that introduces readers to Emily Dickinson, her poetry and her home. The booklet contains several essays and a map of Amherst.

Upcoming events include the annual Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk on Saturday, May 12, at 1 p.m., with an Open House, 1-5 p.m.; Living History Day on Saturday, September 8; and the Birthday Open House on Saturday, December 8, 1-5 p.m. Visitors can also look forward to the opening of the Homestead’s new Tour Center and orientation exhibit later in the year.

The Homestead’s days and hours of operation change seasonally. In March, the Homestead is open Wednesday and Saturday with tours on the hour from 1 to 4 p.m. (Last tour at 4 p.m.). Beginning in April, the Homestead is open Wednesday through Saturday, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Reservations are recommended for tours, especially on Saturdays, and may be made by calling 413/542-8161. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors/students, $3 for young people ages 6 to 18, and no charge for children under 6 or for students currently enrolled at one of the Five Colleges.

For more information, please call the Homestead at 413/542-8161, or visit the Homestead’s new web site at http://www.amherst.edu/~edhouse. The Homestead is a National Historic Landmark owned by the Trustees of Amherst College.

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