First Collegiate Baseball Game

Pittsfield was the home of the first recorded collegiate baseball game between Amherst and Williams College.  Local writer Derek Gentile talks about what that first game was like back in...

The Notch Bunker

In 1957, the Strategic Air Command constructed a protective bunker to support the Combat Operational mission of the  Eighth Air Force Headquarters. Embedded in the Holyoke Mountain Range, this three-story hardened facility was capable of housing 350 personnel for a...

“Royal Blood” the Musical

Amherst College senior Michael O’Connor, Prof. Eric Sawyer and concert & production manager Sara Leonard will discuss “Royal Blood”, an original musical and senior thesis by O’Connor. It will be performed at Amherst College March 31....

Them Bones

Fred Venne, Museum Educator at the Beneski Museum of Natural History at Amherst College will discuss this little-known but highly-regarded museum. Among its collection the largest fossil track collection in the world – many collected from this region — and one...