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Beyond the Commonwealth
When you hear hoofbeats – sometimes they are zebras!
Author: Linda Woodland, Archival Field Fellow I was placed with the Swift River Valley Historical Society, an organization committed to preserving the memory of the towns drowned to form the Quabbin Reservoir in 1938. As a transplant to Central Massachusetts, and now...
National History Day Seeks Alumni Stories for 50th Year
This post is from National History Day, which is asking those who have participated in the program to fill out a survey and share their stories. National History Day is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Have you ever competed in National History Day® (NHD)?...
Local Cultural Councils Award 7,600 Grants for Community-Based Projects
03.01.2024 Lisa Simmons, Program Manager Local Cultural Council Program $7M in grants for cultural programming will be made in cities and towns across the state 2024 Chinese New Year Culture Festival in Northampton, an FY24 LCC grant recipient. Residents and visitors...
Experience “indiVISIBLE: Seeing and Celebrating Indispensable Agricultural Workers.”
A new exhibit from The LAVA Center. The LAVA Center premiered its new exhibit, “indiVISIBLE: Seeing and Celebrating Indispensable Agricultural Workers”, in early February. The exhibit was funded in part by an Expand Massachusetts Stories grant. The project focused on...
Remembering Council Member Kathy Castro
02.28.2024 Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive Director Mass Cultural Council was saddened to learn of the passing of Council Member Kathy Castro earlier this month. Kathy, a lifelong resident of Fall River, served on the Council for nearly six years. She was reappointed...
Reading Frederick Douglass Together at UMass HFA
The first reading of 2024 took place on Douglass’s chosen birth day. Each year, Mass Humanities organizes and funds free public events where communities gather together to read and talk about Frederick Douglass’ influential address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of...
Historical Society Program: Classical Ballet and Music from Southern India
On Monday, MARCH 4, 2024 at 7:30pm at The Willows Auditorium, One Lyman Street, The Westborough Historical Society will present “Classical Ballet and Music from Southern India” performed by Guru Sridevi Ajai Thirumalai, Artistic Director of the Natyamani School...
Experience Framingham’s multilingual social fabric
Stories of immigration depict a city’s transformation. On January 28, 2024, the Framingham History Center (FHC) debuted “Framingham’s Collective Journeys: Stories of Immigration, 1960-Present.” Approximately 100 people attended the grand opening at Edgell Memorial...
Episode 378: Tara Bynum, Everyday Black Living in Early America
https://chrt.fm/track/G481GD/traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/378_Bynum.mp3 When we study the history of Black Americans, especially in the early American period, we tend to focus on slavery and the slave trades. But focusing solely on slavery can hinder our...
Help the U.S. Department of Commerce Amplify Women’s History Month!
By Samantha Feder, U.S. Commercial Service The U.S. Commercial Service’s Global Travel and Tourism team, under the U.S. Department of Commerce, organizes monthly social media campaigns aligned with special recognition months. For March, we are looking to highlight...
Celebrating 50 years of Mass Humanities
A video message from Brian Boyles Mass Humanities was founded in 1974. Since then, we have championed storytellers throughout the Commonwealth through our grant making and program offerings. In this video, Executive Director Brian Boyles shares an overview of the many...
Westborough Center Pastimes – February 16, 2024
(Wikimedia) This essay is part of a new Westborough History Connections series called, “A Meeting of Two Cultures: Native Americans and Early European Settlers in Westborough.” Click here to start at the beginning of the series. The Hassanamisco Band of Nipmucs Today...
Cultural Investment Portfolio Awards $7M to 338 Organizations
02.12.2024 Christian Kelly, Public Relations & Events Manager Cultural Investment Portfolio New operating support grant program to launch next month Performance at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Photo: Michael Lavin Flower. Our cultural organizations do such...
Card to Culture Welcomes 80 New Organizations
02.07.2024 Greg Torrales, Program Officer Card to Culture A Newton Theatre Company production, “In the Time of the Butterflies.” Photo: Terry Curtin. Mass Cultural Council in partnership with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants, &...
Episode 377: Ade Solanke, Phillis Wheatley & the Playwright
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/377_Solanke.mp3 2023 marked the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Phillis Wheatley's published book of poetry in the British American colonies. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who, as a teenager, became the...