Watch: Love Letters to Lawrence
To commemorate our 50th anniversary in 2024, we produced a series of short films that revisit the Mass Humanities archive. Love Letters to Lawrence explores the impact of two major oral history projects that took place in the city of Lawrence—Shifting Gears: The Changing Meaning of Work in Massachusetts, 1920-1980, and Somos Latinos: Our Journey […]
In conversation with Cheryll Toney Holley
If you ask Cheryll Toney Holley to introduce herself, she immediately mentions her four children and eight grandchildren, all of whom are local to the Worcester area. This is because intergenerational bonds are a central cultural value for Holley, who identifies as a Black, Nipmuc woman, born and raised in Massachusetts. We recently had a […]