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  • Tags: 1980s

dakin_janet_with_two_dogs.jpg
Janet Wilder Dakin with two large dogs. Trees are visible in the background.

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Mar 23, 1989, moving #109 Main St. to new site enar the rail road opposite Sweetser park. Police Chief D m Maia in black hat. Masonic Hall, Town Hall in background.

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Photograph of people picnicking at Puffer's Pond in Amherst. Image was either taken, used, or both in the early 1980's.

MAR76MilitaryPlanes.jpg
Air Force A-10 jets flying low over North Pleasant Street during the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people…

MAR57JugglerOnCommon.jpg
Small group of spectators watching a juggler perform on the Town Common.

MAR41SeelyeGMuddBuildingAC.jpg
Looking up Memorial Hill from the sidewalk on the left with Seeleye G. Mudd building and Merrill Science Center visible on rim of slope at right.

MAR58NuclearDisarmamentProtestOnCommon (2).jpg
Demonstration for nuclear disarmament on the Town Common.

MAR23Faces.jpg
Flamingo decorations outside the building which housed Faces of Earth for about 20 years. The building is behind the Mobil station on North Pleasant Street and had previously housed a candlepin bowling alley. Faces had removed from the site by…

MAR63LeagueBooksale.jpg
Tent on the Town Common where the Amherst League of Women Voters held their annual book sale in 1984.

MARSEastStMunsonMemorial.jpg
Entrance to the Munson Memorial Library building shaded by a large maple tree.

MAR66Drummers.jpg
Members of the Shriners marching in the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the…

MARFauveGallery.jpg
Wooden sculpture outside the entrance to the Fauve Gallery, an art gallery which operated on the second floor at 18 Main Street for five years beginning in 1985.

MAR67Veterans Day Parade.jpg
Peace activists marching along with the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the…

MAR75MarchingBand.jpg
Marine Corps band which marched in the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the…

MAR71PeaceVigil.jpg
Peace vigil which had been held for many years from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the Town Common since 1966.
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