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As 2018 continues on, Amherst Books, one of the few remaining local bookstores in the Amherst area, is celebrating its 15-year anniversary. Amherst Books was initially founded by Nat Herold and Mark ...
The new UMass Amherst seal, left, and logo, right. (Courtesy University of Massachusetts) UMass Amherst has rolled out a new university seal and brand mark that school officials say "expands the ...
Books Magnificent permanent exhibit opens at Amherst’s Yiddish Book Center Among the many displays are a 1918 Yiddish linotype press and a replica of the great Yiddish writer Y.L. Peretz’s ...
The Main Street Amherst Community Center, 255 Park Ave. in downtown Amherst, has a new logo for the center and town. The logo, designed by Avon native and Bonefish Systems employee Taylor Lehman, f… ...
Amherst Books began when co-owner Nat Herold purchased the space of the former Atticus Bookstore with his former colleague, Mark Wootton, after Herold had spent some 20 years in town working in ...
Culture Aaron Lansky, who rescued 1.5 million Yiddish books and founded the Yiddish Book Center, is retiring He went looking for Yiddish books as a grad student.
Books: Amherst, Brave Amherst; Books: Amherst, Brave Amherst. 3 minute read. TIME. June 30, 1930 12:00 AM GMT-4. THE LIFE AND MIND OF EMILY DICKINSON—Genevieve Taggard—Knopf ($4).
Ilan Stavans, who co-founded Restless Books in Amherst, said that the organization recently learned that the National Endowment for the Arts is terminating a $25,000 grant it awarded to the ...
It’s official at Amherst College: Bygone behemoths have pushed a controversial colonial commander to extinction. The college unveiled its new logo Friday night, and it’s so long, Lord Jeff ...
He said Amherst Books, which is 11 years old, will likely pick up some of the slack cause by the closing. Herold, who had owned the Goliard, which was more of a political store, let Food For ...
Officials at Amherst’s public library say they have no plans to relocate a collection of ‘‘Tintin’’ adventure books despite the objections of some parents who say theythe 1930s-era ...