Father’s Day is Sunday, June 15. Thank you to all the men who look after others.
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Garden report: the campanula and Siberian iris have bloomed. The green beans are several inches high.
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Thursday, June 19 is Juneteenth, a holiday. Town offices, schools, banks and the Post Office will be closed.
Ancestral Bridges will celebrate the holiday Saturday, June 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m, with events around town including a Civil War reenactment at West Cemetery and lunch at the Dickinson House.
The Black Business Association of the Amherst Area will hold a Juneteenth event June 19 from 5 to 9 p.m. at St. Brigid’s Parish Hall with music, dance, poetry, vendors, book signing and food. It’s free.
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Ed Roseman sent me an email about The Ben & Ed Show that will be held at the Amherst Senior Center June 18 at 11 a.m. “We love performing there, and they love having us, but more attendance — of any and all ages — would be welcome,” he wrote.
Friends have seen the show and they highly recommend it. It’s free. They perform monthly. The schedule is July 16, Aug. 13.
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The Amherst Shade Tree Committee will be planting Saturday, June 14 at the corner of Rambling and Country Corners Road in South Amherst. Shovels will be provided. Look for the yellow town truck.
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Historic Northampton is sponsoring a walking tour, “Women’s History in Life and Death” with Elizabeth Sacktor at the Bridge Street Cemetery Tuesday, June 17 at 5 p.m. Registration is required. Visit: www.historicnorthamptom.org.
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Linda Marston of Amherst sent a stunning photo of a Ruby Maple Moth that was on the wall of her house. It is one inch square, she wrote. She posted it on Facebook and had 300 visits.
It’s so amazing it looks fake. What looks like the back of a head with yellow hair above a lilac and pale yellow cape.
Check it out on your device. You will be amazed.
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Bruce Penniman of Amherst sent me an email that readers are being solicited for the Reading Frederick Douglass Together program on July 5 at South Church.
The reading is cosponsored with the Amherst Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The event will be held indoors.
Anyone who would like to be a reader and/or who needs (free) transportation to and from the church can sign up at https://tinyurl.com/RFDT25, he wrote.
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