Father’s Day greetings to all the men who look after children, whether as parents, coaches or mentors.

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Garden report: The astilbe and nigella (love in a mist) have bloomed. The snap peas have blossoms.

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The Amherst Community Band performs Friday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m. at Sweetser Park. It’s free but donations are welcome. Bring chairs or blankets.

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Monday, June 19 is Juneteenth, a holiday, and public buildings are closed.

Amherst celebrates its third annual Juneteenth Jubilee Monday, June 19 at noon on the Common with “Our Voices. Our History. Our Vision. Our Stories.” Details will be available on the town website.

The Juneteenth Jamboree will be held the same day from 4 p.m. to sundown at the Mill River Recreation Area with food, music and entertainment. Both events are free.

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Correction: The date for the Art on the Lawn series at the Strong House History Museum is Oct. 14.

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Mary Carey of Amherst sent me an email photo of herself mailing me a postcard in Malaga, Spain. The mailbox is a yellow cylinder. “Brian and I have been in Spain for a month and are returning tomorrow. We did a 3-week Spanish language immersion program and then traveled around southern Spain by bus for a week, ” she wrote.

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Elisa Campbell of Amherst sent me email photos of her recent trip. “I spent almost a week in Pennsylvania — a couple of days in State College (where I lived as a very small child and my grandmother and aunt and uncle lived there much longer) and then several days in Orbisonia, PA, riding and enjoying a narrow gauge steam railway there. I loved it! Fortunately, that was before the smoky air reached PA.”

The photos were of her grandmother’s house in State College, the house her family lived in way back then, and Elisa with locomotive #16 “Nick.”

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Helene Lambert sent me an email about her daughter’s art exhibit. Jenn Lambert will have an exhibit at the Sawmill River Arts Gallery in Montague during July. The gallery is open Thursday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. She will also have an exhibit at the Jones Library’s Burnett Gallery in August.

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