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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill w/ Erik Sherman
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ the Inn at Norton Hill\nSunday\, February 4\, 3:00–5:00 p.m.\nMain St. (Rt. 116) & Norton Hill Rd.\, Ashfield  \nCosponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild and Nan Parati (owner\, Elmer’s Store and the Inn at Norton Hill) \nFeatured Reader: Erik Sherman \n\nFeatured Reader: Erik Sherman is an independent journalist\, author\, consultant\, and playwright. His work covering business\, technology\, economics\, finance\, law\, science\, and public policy has appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal\, Newsweek\, New York Times Magazine\, Fortune\, Inc\, and Technology Review. Mr. Sherman is a regular contributor to the online sites of Inc and Forbes and he is the author or co-author of ten non-fiction books. MORE \n  \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls!\n\nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-w-erik-sherman
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
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SUMMARY:How Does it Work to Work with an Editor?
DESCRIPTION:How Does it Work to Work with an Editor?\n \nYou’ve written and rewritten\, on your own and in a group\, but how do you decide when your writing could benefit from the input of an editor? Where do you begin the process\, and what should you expect when you put your manuscript in the hands of a stranger? You might be surprised at how positive the experience can be. Come for answers to all your questions about engaging an editor’s services and making the most of the editorial relationship.  \n\n \n \nBio:\nLibby Maxey\, of Conway\, MA\, is a senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama\, where she has worked in the Literary Reflections department since 2012. She also edits for Amherst College and as a freelancer (libbymaxey.com). Her clients include short story writers\, academics\, translators\, novelists\, memoirists\, poets\, essayists\, journalists\, and writers for whom English is a second language. Her own poems and reviews have appeared in Mezzo Cammin\, Crannóg\, Kestrel\, Naugatuck River Review\, The Mom Egg Review\, Solstice and elsewhere. Locally\, she has won both the Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest and the Robert P. Collén Poetry Contest\, and her work was selected for the Northampton Arts Council’s 2017 Visual Arts and Poetry Biennial. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering two sons. \n \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/work-work-editor
LOCATION:Lilly Library\, 19 Meadow Street\, Florence\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill w/ JANE YOLEN
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill \n1st Sunday of the month. \n3:00–5:00 pm. \n10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA \nFEATURED READER:  Jane Yolen is an author of children’s books\, fantasy\, and science fiction\, including Owl Moon\, The Devil’s Arithmetic\, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? She is also a poet\, a teacher of writing and literature\, and a reviewer of children’s literature. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century.\nOwl Moon\, Winner of the 1988 Caldecott MedalJane Yolen’s books and stories have won the Caldecott Medal\, two Nebula Awards\, two Christopher Medals\, the World Fantasy Award\, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards\, the Golden Kite Award\, the Jewish Book Award\, the World Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award among many others. \nJane will read for 15 minutes\, followed by Q&A. \nOpen mic starts at approximately 3:40. Readers get up to 5 mins to share their work. \nINTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-w-jane-yolen
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out!
DESCRIPTION:FEATURED READER: INFO COMING SOON! \n  \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-4
LOCATION:The Basement
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SUMMARY:SOCIAL ACTIVIST SATURDAY!
DESCRIPTION: A day to activate your inner activist\, join a community roundtable to discuss writing as a tool for social justice\, followed by networking with local writers and activists\, ending an awesome day listening to powerful singer-songwriter activist Pamela Means performing at The Parlor Room! \nJoin us for the whole Saturday\, or come for just the Roundtable Discussion\, or to see Pamela Means! \n \nStraw Dog Writers Guild & Northampton Center for The Arts presents:  \nWRITING AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.\nA Roundtable Discussion\nwith facilitators Ellen Meeropol\, Christopher Sparks\, & Liz Bedell. Join us for a discussion following the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award program. \nSaturday\, December 9\, 2017\nRoundtable Discussion: 3 PM – 4 :30 PM\nNorthampton Center for The Arts\n33 Hawley St. Northampton MA \nFREE TO ATTEND (roundtable discussion) \nPlease RSVP here\nThe Roundtable Discussion is partially funded by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council and the Mass Cultural Council.\nThank you!\n \nFollowed by songwriter\, singer & social activist  \nPAMELA MEANS at The Parlor Room\n \nSaturday\, December 9\, 2017\nDoors: 6:30 PM\nShow: 7:00 PM \nThe Parlor Room\, \n32 Masonic St\, \nNorthampton\, MA \nAll Ages – $18/Door \n  \n**** If you attend the Roundtable Discussion\, The Parlor Room has generously offered a discount for attendees – Just $15/Door!\nThank you\, Parlor Room! \n(Straw Dog 12/9 Workshop ticket stub will honor a $15 ticket price\, the day of the show\, at the door ($3 off) for Pamela Means at The Parlor Room 12/9.  One offer per ticket stub. Does not guarantee admission in the case of a sold-out show.)
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/socialactivistsaturday
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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SUMMARY:WRITING AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE - Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Straw Dog Writers Guild presents WRITING AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE. \nCLICK BELOW \nSIGN UP TO ATTEND \nA Roundtable Discussion with facilitators Ellen Meeropol\, Christopher Sparks\, & Liz Bedell.  Join us for a discussion following the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award program. \nSaturday\, December 9th\,  3 PM\nNorthampton Center for The Arts\n33 Hawley St. Northampton MA
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writing-tool-social-justice-roundtable-discussion
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley St.\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T140000
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:Richard Wayne Horton has published in Southern Pacific Review\, Meat For Tea\, Lonesome October\, Aphotic Realm\, Danse Macabre Online\, and others. He was nominated for a Pushcart. His first book of flash fiction\, Sticks & Bones\, is available from Meat For Tea Press. He is working on a second book of flash fiction\, A Dream Of Vanished Streets set in Texas in the early 50s. Precise language ties together scenes that are gritty\, beautiful and at times disturbing. The characters seem real\, and the settings close up and bright. Some RWH stories have appeared in horror mags but they are not horror. Instead of being predictable formula fodder for buzzed-out minds\, they are rich\, strong-boned and speculative\, with dream sequences that engage a real emotional second world. \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mic. \nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-3
LOCATION:The Basement
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill \n1st Sunday of the month. \n3:00–5:00 pm. \n10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA \nFEATURED READER:  feature guest writer Celia Jeffries. Celia’s writing has appeared in numerous newspapers and literary magazines including Westview\, Solsticelitmag\, and Puerto del Sol\, as well as the anthology Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. She recently finished a novel and is currently working on a memoir. During this time she has taught writing at every level from elementary school through university\, adult education\, and literacy programs; received a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council; and been named a Massachusetts Humanities Scholar. \nCelia will read for 15 minutes\, followed by Q&A.\n\n\nOpen mic starts at approximately 3:40. Readers get up to 5 mins to share their work.\n\n\nNOTE: This date coincides with Ashfield’s WinterFest\, featuring general revelry and Christmas trees and crafts on sale. Come early to park close by and do some holiday shopping!\n\n\n\n\n INTERESTED IN BEING A FEATURED READER?\nplease email Jane Roy Brown at brownjaneroy@gmail.com\n\n\n\n \nFeatured Reader next month- January 7\, 2018: Jane Yolen
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill-2
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award
DESCRIPTION:ABEL MEEROPOL SOCIAL JUSTICE WRITING AWARD\nWe only have a few tickets left. \nSign up for tickets here!\nStraw Dog Writers Guild will present the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award to poet Patricia Smith at a public event on November 12\, 2017\, 3:30 pm\, at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke. \nAbel Meeropol (1903-1986) was a progressive Jewish poet\, playwright and composer writing under the pen name Lewis Allan. He is best known for his iconic anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit\,” made famous by Billie Holiday and named the Best Song of the Century by Time Magazine in 1999. He and his wife Anne adopted the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg\, Robert and Michael\, after the executions of their parents. Abel moved to Western Massachusetts in 1980. \nAward recipient Patricia Smith is a Guggenheim fellow\, a National Endowment for the Arts recipient\, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize\, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is the author of eight books of poetry\, including Incendiary Art; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets and Blood Dazzler\, a National Book Award finalist. At the November 12 award ceremony\, local singer/songwriter Pamela Means will perform “Strange Fruit” and Abel’s son Robert Meeropol will present the award. Patricia Smith will read from her work and talk about the ways literature can explore important social issues and bring us together as a community. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsors\n\n\n\n\n\n\nACLU of Massachusetts \nARISE for Social Justice \nCenter for New Americans \nClick Workspace \nDavid Ruggles Center for History & Education \nGateway City Arts \nGreen Fire Press \nHoward Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University \nHuman Error Publishing (Great Falls Word Festival) \nJoel Katz & the Strange Fruit film \nThe Literacy Project \nMA Committee Against the Death Penalty\, Hampden Co. chapter \nNational Lawyers Guild – Massachusetts Chapter \nNorthamptonStateHospital.org \nPatchwork Farm Writers Retreat \nPioneer Valley Workers Center \nPoetry Center at Smith College \nRosenberg Fund for Children \nSafe Passage \nSojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership \nVoices from Inside \nWarren J. Plaut Charitable Trust \nW.E.B. DuBois Center\, University of Massachusetts\, Amherst \nWhite Square Books \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela Means will be performing Strange Fruit at the event on November 12th.\n\n\n\nRoundtable discussions are planned for December 9 to continue the conversation about social justice and the arts. These programs are co-sponsored by two dozen local organizations and are supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council. \nFor more information about the program and tickets (free but required)\, visit strawdogwriters.org or contact Straw Dog Writers Guild Administrative Director Laura Stone at 413.768.0977 or admin@strawdogwriters.org.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/abel-meeropol-social-justice-writing-award
LOCATION:Gateway City Arts\, 92-114 Race Street\, Holyoke\, Massachusetts\, 01040
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Night Out
DESCRIPTION:FEATURED READER – \nGail Thomas has published three books of poetry\, Waving Back\, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley\, and Finding the Bear.  Published in 2105\, Waving Back was awarded Honorable Mention by the New England Book Festival and includes poems that won the James Hearst Prize and the Pat Schneider Prize. \nHer work has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, and she was awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Ucross in Wyoming. \nHer book\, No Simple Wilderness\, about the drowning of towns and villages in Western Massachusetts in the 1930’s to provide drinking water for Boston has been used as a text in college courses.  As one of the original teaching artists for the state’s Elder Arts Initiative\, Gail has collaborated with musicians\, dancers\, and storytellers across the state.  She is a frequent presenter at conferences and a featured reader at libraries\, bookstores\, cafes\, and schools. \nDoors open at 7 – with an open mic. \nIf you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out-2
LOCATION:The Basement
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill \nSunday – November 5\, 2017 \n3:00–5:00 pm. \n10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA \nFEATURED READER: Eric Laursen \nEric Laursen will talk about his upcoming publication\, The Duty to Stand Aside\, Nineteen Eighty-four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort. \nEric is an independent journalist\, activist\, and commentator. He is the author of The People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan (AK Press\, 2012)\, a BookList Editor’s Choice selection; and co-author of Understanding the Crash (Soft Skull Press\, Spring 2010)\, which tells the story of the 2008 economic meltdown in text-and-graphics format. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications\, including The Nation\, The Village Voice\, In These Times\, Z Magazine\, The Indypendent\, HuffingtonPost.com\, and The Arkansas Review. He is currently writing a biography of Alex Comfort. A graduate of Columbia University\, he lives in Buckland\, Massachusetts. \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nThe featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get about three minutes.) \nCo-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Elmer’s Store & The Inn at Norton Hill.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/5312
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop at The Great Falls Word Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Easy Way to  \nWrite 30 Poems in 30 Days \n For Fun and Your Favorite Non-Profit!*  \n(namely – *The Center for New Americans) \nA Workshop for Poets and Non-Poets Alike \nby Tommy Twilite \n  \nSaturday Noon-2pm\, October 14th\, 2017 \nGreat Falls Discovery Center\, Turners Falls MA \nas part of the \nThe Great Falls Word Festival in Turners Falls\nUsing simple prompts\, found objects\, family photographs\, musical compositions\, blind luck\, and a small amount of consistent effort and imagination\, Tommy will demonstrate some of the “tricks of the trade” he used to complete his wildly successful 2016 campaign to write “30 Poems In November” and how he was able to lead the Center For New Americans effort to far surpassing its fundraising goals.  The emphasis of this 90-minute workshop will be on having fun\, and on using your creativity and positive energy to fulfill your own dream of writing 30 Poems in 30 Days. Feedback\, discussion\, and participation from the group is expected and strongly encouraged.   \n\nTommy Twilite\, a.k.a. Tom Clark\, is a retired Fire Captain\, former EMT\, woodworker\, amateur chef\, vintage car enthusiast\, musician\, songwriter and poet who lives in Florence\, Massachusetts.  He is the Co-founder and Director of the Florence PoetsSocietyy and Executive Editor of Silkworm.  Tommy broadcasts a weekly radio show on WXOJ-FM Valley Free Radio called the Twilite Poetry Pub which features an eclectic selection of music\, poetry\, and guests.  He was also the 2016 chairperson for “30 Poems In November”\, a fundraising event for the Center For New Americans.  Tommy believes that poetry has the power to change the world.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/poetry-workshop-great-falls-word-festival
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Featured Reader & Open Mic @ The Great Falls Word Festival
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/5194
LOCATION:Shea Theater\, 71 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01076
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Sidewalk Typewriters @ The Great Falls Word Festival
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URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/sidewalk-typewriters-great-falls-word-festival
LOCATION:Shea Theater\, 71 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01076
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T150000
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SUMMARY:WRITERS NIGHT OUT
DESCRIPTION:Oct. 3rd\, 2017 – 7-9pm \nFeatured Reader: Naila Moreira\nI am a writer\, journalist\, and naturalist living in western Massachusetts. My published work includes science journalism\, nature writing\, and poetry. I also write for children.\nI teach in the Jacobson Writing Center at Smith College and am a lecturer in the English department. During the summer\, I have taught science writing to high school girls in Smith’s Summer Science and Engineering Program. \nI am serving as the Writer-in-Residence at the Northampton Forbes Public Library for 2015-2018. You can read brief interviews with me here and here.\nI received my Ph.D. in geosciences from the University of Michigan.\nDoors open at 7 – with an open mike. If you’d like a chance to read\, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15\, and each reader will have five minutes. \nAdmission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue. \nPlease join us! Further information: Beth Filson at WNO@gmail.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-night-out
LOCATION:The Basement
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read @ The Inn at Norton Hill \nOctober 1st\, 2017 \n3:00–5:00 pm. \n10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA \nFEATURED READER: Mary V. Dearborn\nMary V. Dearborn is the author of six books\, the most recent a biography of Peggy Guggenheim. She received a B.A. in English and Classics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University\, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She lives in Buckland\, Massachusetts. Her Ernest Hemingway: A Biography was published by Knopf in May 2017. \n  \n  \nBring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \nThe featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15. (Hint: you get about three minutes.) \nCo-sponsored by Straw Dog Writers Guild\, Elmer’s Store & The Inn at Norton Hill.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-inn-norton-hill
LOCATION:The Inn at Norton Hill\, 10 Norton Hill Road\, Ashfield\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Straw Dog Event
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SUMMARY:STRAW DOG AUTHOR SHOWCASE 2017
DESCRIPTION:Forbes Library Coolidge Museum – Straw Dog Author Showcase 2017 \n2017 SD Showcase Co-sponsored by the Forbes Library\, includes short readings from newly-published books by members of the Straw Dog Writers Guild\, including Dick Bentley\, Michael Goldman\, Tzivia Gover\, Richard Wayne Horton\, Jan Maher\, Ellen Meeropol\, Leslea Newman\, Elaine Reardon\, Jacqueline Sheehan\, and Gail Thomas. \nEvery year\, Straw Dog Writers Guild offers members the opportunity to dazzle the public with short excerpts read from their recently published books. This year\, the Straw Dog Author Showcase is co-sponsored by the Forbes Library and will be held in the gorgeous Coolidge Museum room. \nRefreshments will be served\, and participating authors will have the opportunity to sell their books and network with other writers.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/straw-dog-author-showcase-2017
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, Coolidge Museum\, 20 West Street\, Northampton\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Readings,Straw Dog Event
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