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AMHERST — Amherst College has received a $25 million gift from the late William Vickery with approximately $22 million of it designated for use by the Emily Dickinson Museum.
Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Mass. The museum instituted timed-entry admissions due to COVID-19 capacity limits, it said. You can see the details of the museum’s current COVID-19 safety ...
The Emily Dickinson Museum is a member of Museums10, a network of 10 museums linked to the Five College System of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University of ...
Even though I have lived in the Pioneer Valley for almost 40 years and have long been a student of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, yesterday was my first visit to the Dickinson Homestead in Amherst. It’s a ...
Emily Dickinson’s fame had exploded, and the Homestead—sold to Amherst College in 1965—had been opened to tourists. Mary knew the Evergreens had increased in importance too.
AMHERST, Mass. — “Here is our Wizard of Oz moment,” a guide said on a recent afternoon, before opening a door and stepping into the front foyer of the Emily Dickinson Museum.
Jane Wald has been executive director at Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst since 2006. She will now be the Jane and Robert Keiter Family Executive Director, thanks to a $2.5 million gift from the ...
No literary pilgrimage to Massachusetts can be complete without a visit to Amherst, a college town in Massachusetts, where Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, into a prominent family.
Amherst College has sent many a successful writer into the world, or brought them in to teach: David Foster Wallace, Robert Frost, Richard Wilbur, Robert Stone, Lauren Groff, Chris Bohjalian ...
The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst is set to reopen its doors to tours and guests on March 1 for a full season after its routine winter break. Tickets to the museum, located at 280 Main St ...