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Tom Goldscheider, a historian with the David Ruggles Center, holds the only known image of Ruggles, an abolitionist, publisher and writer who lived in Florence in the 1840s. Ruggles is the man in the center of the image, an editorial cartoon from the 1830s.

Past informs the present: David Ruggles Center designs curriculum on landmark anti-slavery community

by Steve Pfarrer Staff WriterAugust 20, 2020

Marissa Perez, a Holyoke Community College student who lives in Florence, is this year’s winner of the Glascock Poetry Prize.

In storied company: Florence resident Marissa Perez wins Glascock Poetry Prize

by Steve Pfarrer Staff WriterApril 10, 2020

Stephen Platt, a Chinese history professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has published three books on modern Chinese history.

‘I write what I would love to read’

by Steve Pfarrer Staff WriterMay 10, 2018

Madge Briggs at her home in Leeds.

Hampshire Music Club: The particulars

by Staff Report September 22, 2016