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By STEVE PFARRER
Sojourner Truth has long been a symbol of a strong Black woman: a straight-talking, formerly enslaved woman who remade herself as an ardent abolitionist and women’s rights activist, a preacher, and a riveting speaker who wowed audiences with her wit...
Truth biographer comes to townFLORENCE — Historian Nell Irvin Painter, the author of an acclaimed biography of Sojourner Truth, will visit the town where the famed abolitionist once lived to talk about her newest book and about some of the ideas that...
By Mercedes Lingle
NORTHAMPTON — A new marker is now on display in Florence which celebrates the time that Sojourner Truth spent in western Massachusetts — one of five such historic women’s suffrage markers installed across Massachusetts along the new National Votes for...
Preview of a new sci-fi operaAMHERST — A free workshop performance of “The Onion,” a new opera based on a fictional machine that allows a person to re-experience a memory as a visceral reality, will be staged June 4 at 3 p.m. in Holden Theater at...
A musical tradition continues this summerNORTHAMPTON — The annual musical celebration and fundraiser at Look Park is set to take place again in August, and this year the theme will be… elemental.“Performance 33: The Elements,” which will be staged...
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