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A view of a stone church with a tower and cemetery in front.

Pen and ink illustration of a church among a stone wall and some trees.

Looking down Middle Street at the church in Hadley.

Local author Christopher Benfey poses in front of Emily Dickinson's gravesite while holding copies of his books, The Great Wave, A Summer of Hummingbirds, and Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay.

A girl and a boy, identified as Margaret and Irving Johnson, in a room. She is kneeling on the ground and he is standing in front of both holding on to something. Some toys lie on the floor by a bay window with a plant hanging by the window. A…

A boy and a girl, identified as Arthur and Margaret Johnson, enjoying a Christmas morning. The boy sits on the floor playing with a train and she is standing by Christmas socks filled with toys, holding a doll. A broom rests against the wall with a…

Robert Francis handmade Christmas cards for his friends. This one was written to Dorothy and includes a personal note about his former neighbor, Frank Adamites, naming his son after Francis.

A view of a church as seen across a street. It is a brick two story building with a bell tower in the front and there is a fence in front of it.

Group portrait of men and women in historic costumes and musicians with instruments. Backdrop appears to be an Amherst College building.

A bearded white man chops wood while a boy stands next to him. A wooden house with a stone chimney is behind them with bare trees on the left.

Newspaper article glued to a scrapbook page. The article describes the history of the relationship of Sir Chentung Liang Cheng to the town and the people of Amherst. Cheng came to the United States about 1875 (at the age of 12) as part of the Chinese…

A view of a shore of Lake Champlain framed by two birch trees. A lighthouse stands in the background on the right.

A white boy stands in a boat holding his oar up looking at a large serpent with its head high above the water and its tongue sticking out.

Two white children, walking. The boy is holding a fishing pole and the girl is looking at him while holding a book up in her hand.

Three owls wearing top hats sit on a bare branch, all facing forward. A moon is directly behind them.