Welcoming EMS grantees at our Holyoke HQ

The public humanities are all about gathering in community with one another and storytelling. We couldn’t think of a better way to end the year than by inviting a small group of Expand Massachusetts Stories grantees (all based in Western Massachusetts) to our headquarters in Holyoke and doing exactly that. A special thank you to […]
Historian Erika Slocumb reflects on “Legacies”

By Erika Slocumb. In the summer of 2024, Brian Boyles asked me to take part in a short documentary film series, working with filmmakers as a history consultant as the filmmakers navigated Western Mass Black history projects funded by Mass Humanities. As a recipient of funding from Mass Humanities, I was excited to be a part of this […]