Poet Laureate Regie Gibson and the “Song of Massachusetts”
“Any path to liberty this nation has taken is because we helped choose it.” This line, spoken by Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson, was one of many powerful statements made at a press conference for Massachusetts 250 on November 3 in Boston. Governor Maura Healey, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu previewed […]
Archives trace the cultural history of Massachusetts
Since 1974, Mass Humanities has preserved and curated the stories of Massachusetts. Over that period, we gradually collected quite a few records, documents, objects, and artifacts. When we moved our headquarters from Northampton to Holyoke in 2024, we invited local archivist Thomas Doyle to help us organize our “living archive” of humanities projects in Massachusetts. […]