Another Valley Guggenheim winner

NORTHAMPTON — Stephen Darwall, a philosophy professor at Yale University who lives in the Valley, has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, one of three winners from this region.

Darwall, of Northampton, lives part time in New Haven, Connecticut during the school year. According to Yale News, his work examines the foundations of ethics, moral psychology, as well as ethical and moral theory. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles.

And he has more coming: In a statement, Darwall said he was deeply grateful for his Guggenheim, as it “will enable me to complete the second of two volumes in the history of modern moral philosophy in the West.”

The Guggenheim Fellowships, established in 1925, are granted annually to select scholars and people in creative fields.

Darwall is just one of three philosophers who have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this year. All told, 171 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists won the 2023 awards.

Among those are Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, a writer and a University of Massachusetts Amherst professor of English and biography, and Amherst native Amber Bemak, a filmmaker and film studies professor who teaches in Texas but currently lives in Northampton.

Edward Hopkins Foundation holding open house

HADLEY — An open house with displays and tours of the Edward Hopkins Educational Foundation collection takes place at the Goodwin Memorial Library, 50 Middle St., from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Yearbooks, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper articles and other items are showcased.

In addition, asparagus logo T-shirts and sweatshirts will be on sale. Those raise money for the foundation’s mission of supporting teachers at Hopkins Academy and Hadley Elementary School.

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