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Celebrating 50 years of Mass Humanities

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A video message from Brian Boyles

Mass Humanities was founded in 1974. Since then, we have championed storytellers throughout the Commonwealth through our grant making and program offerings. In this video, Executive Director Brian Boyles shares an overview of the many exciting events and projects we have in store to commemorate five decades of helping the humanities thrive in Massachusetts.

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