Author Tzivia Gover to read from Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House, at S. Hadley’s Odyssey Bookshop Feb. 15 What: Reading and signing of a book about Holyoke and The Care Center: Learning in Mrs. Towne’s House: A Teacher, Her Students and the Woman Who Inspired Them, by Tzivia Gover (Leveller’s Press, Florence/Amherst Mass., paperback, $18.95) When: Weds., Feb. 15, 7 p.m. Where: Odyssey... 

Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya by Elliot Fratkin Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya by Elliot Fratkin   Elliot Fratkin shares the story of his early anthropological fieldwork in Kenya in the 1970s. Using his fieldnotes and letters home to bring to life the voices of those he met, Fratkin invites the reader to experience his... 

Are you interested in learning about the process of book publication from the authors themselves? Local writers of both fiction and nonfiction will showcase their recently published books and be available to meet readers and discuss, sign, and sell their works. Don’t miss this opportunity to interact with a diverse and talented group of local authors from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m on Saturday, September... 

By Lorraine Blasor “Puerto Rico in the 1960s,” a collection of black and white pictures by photographer Marvin W. Schwartz, offers more than a shot of nostalgia. It is a riveting look at a special time in the island’s history. Taken during the years when Schwartz lived in Puerto Rico, the 68 pictures in the book capture the past and bring it to life. These were the years of Puerto... 

By Lauren Kamb This past October, I had the pleasure of going to see a play performed at the Curtain Theater at the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for one of the Spanish classes I am taking at UMASS this semester. This class, Spanish 321 – Literary Currents – Spain II, is a class that primarily focuses on various plays and other pieces of literature written by a...