#Amherst MA

[johnthestitcher]

Aye - Aye - Aye! This Halloween I had a gig at UMASS Amherst and had a seat in the lobby where everyone had to walk past me to get to the dining hall! I had taken 100 free crystal 'friends' with me - and gave every single one of them away! I was only doing one-card readings, and calculated that I had done @ 130 readings. Was supposed to be 5 - 9 p.m. plus food, but I didn't stop doing readings until @ 9:30 and had to pack and go upstairs and find food! It was a very interesting evening! Some kind person got me a hot tea for my throat about half-way through.

[westernmassposting]

yall I forgot I have a fucking update

[muhammadgiovanni]

Bob Carpenter “Miracle Man” Silent Passage, 1975.

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In this view from the Mill Street bridge in North Amherst, swimmers sit on the dam at Puffer’s Pond in 2016. The town has applied for a state grant that would help pay for development of an improvement plan at the pond, including the dam and dike.

Amherst requests state grant to develop Puffer’s Pond improvement plan

"If the money is awarded later this year, engineers will be hired to examine the pond and propose fixes. They will take readings on the depth of the water in the pond, get an understanding of what’s on the bottom of the pond, and take depth of sediment cores and examine what’s in the sediment.

Such a project could help the town to decide whether to undertake dredging of the pond, last done in 1986, when 100,000 cubic yards of material were removed.

“It does move the needle on dredging,” Ziomek said. “From that information we should be able to extrapolate the volume of sediment that needs to be removed from the pond.”

READ MORE https://www.gazettenet.com/Amherst-seeking-support-from-state-program-for-Puffers-Pond-dam-and-dike-repairs-54694735

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[directactionforhope]

Late notice but

Today 10/5 is an international day of action protesting one year of the Gaza genocide!

Find a protest near you today or tomorrow 10/6! If you're in the US, look at the links below, from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights!

October 5, 2024

Note: Tumblr has capped the number of outgoing links you can use in one post. Go to the USCPR link above and click on a protest for a flyer/organizer info for each and every one of these events.

Albany, NY | 4:30PM Dana Park

Albuquerque, NM | 2PM Robinson Park

Amherst, MA | Amherst Town Common

Anchorage, AK | 2PM Townsquare Park

Atlanta, GA | 2PM 190 Marietta SW

Austin, TX | 1PM Austin City Hall

Birmingham, AL | 2PM Victoria Square

Blacksburg, VA | 3PM Pylons

Boston, MA | 2PM Cambridge City Hall

Burlington, VT | 1PM Battery Park

Charleston, SC | 2PM Marion Square Park

Chicago, IL | 2PM Water Tower Park

Cleveland, OH | 3PM 11804 Lorain Ave

Columbus, OH | 2PM Goodale Park

Corvallis, OR | 12 NOON County Courthoue

Dallas, TX | 12PM The Grassy Knoll

Denver, CO | 12PM 400 Josephine St

Detroit, MI | 2PM 5 Woodward Ave, Detroit

Dover, DE | 12 NOON 250 Gateway S Blvd

Fort Myers, FL | 6PM Centennial Park

Gainseville, FL | 2PM City Hall

Honolulu, HI | 11AM Ala Moana & Atkinson

Houston, TX | 2PM Houston City Hall

Indianapolis, IL |  2PM Lugar Plaza

Kansas City | 1PM Mill Creek Park

Kona, HI | 12:30PM Old airport by the skating rink

Las Vegas, NV | 2PM 3449 S Sammy Davis Jr Dr

Little Rock, AK | 4PM 1200 Main St

Los Angeles, CA | 2PM Pershing Square

Louisville, KY | 3PM Water Front Park

Maui, HI | 11AM Kapuka’ulua (Baldwin Beach)

Memphis, TN | 2PM City Hall

Miami, FL | 5PM Torch of Friendship

Milwaukee, WI | 2PM Zedler Union Square Park

Missoula, MT | 7PM 200 W Broadway

Nashville, TN | 2PM Centennial Park

New York, NY | 2PM Times Square

New Haven, CT | 1PM New Haven Green

New Orleans, LA | 5PM Congo Square

Ottawa, Ontario | 2PM Parliment Hill

Orlando, FL | 4PM Orlando City Hall

Pensacola, FL | 5PM Palafox & Gregorary St.

Pittsburgh, PA | Film screening, 3PM 100 S Commons St.

Portland, ME | 5PM Monument Square

Portland, OR | 3PM Unthank Park

Providence, RI | 3PM RI State House steps & 5:30PM 1 Finance Way

Raleigh, NC | 3PM Moore Square

Rochester, NY | 1PM MLK Park

Sacramento, CA | 2PM West steps of the Capitol

Salt Lake City, UT | 2PM 125 S State St

San Antonio, TX | 1PM Travis Park

San Diego, CA | 2:00PM 1600 Pacific Highway

Seattle, WA | 2PM TBA, with car caravans from Spokane, Pasco, Ellensburg

St. Louis, MO | Liberation weekend, 9AM-8PM 475 East Lockwood Ave

Tampa, FL | 2PM Bank of America Plaza

Toronto, Ontario | 2PM Yonge Dundas Square

Urbana, IL | 2PM 101 E Main St

Ventura, CA | 2PM 501 Poli St

Washington, DC | 4PM White House

West Plains, MO | 12 NOON Downtown Square

Wichita, KS | 12:30PM Spirit Aerosystems

October 6, 2024

Amityville, NY | 1PM LIRR

Boston, MA | 1PM Boston Common

Green Bay, WI | 5:30PM Leicht Memorial Park

Los Angeles, CA | Vigil, 6:30PM Echo Park Lake

Minneapolis, MN | 1:30PM Gateway Park Fountain

Ontario, CA | 1PM Euclid & C St

Paterson, NJ | 2PM Palestine Way with Gould Avenue

Roanoke, VA | Vigil, 6PM Heights Community Church courtyard

San Diego, CA | 4PM Centro Cultural de La Raza

San Francisco, CA | 1PM 16th & Valencia

San Jose, CA | 12 NOON City Hall

St. Louis, MO | 1PM Choteau Park

[galleryofart]

Salome Dancer

Artist: Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929)

Date: 1909

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States

Description

Broad, slashing strokes give powerful shape to this defiant female figure standing with parted legs, a pose more athletic - even pugilistic - than seductive. Her oppositional posturing matched the painter’s contrary aesthetic sensibilities. The Realist painter Henri sought a provocative and timely subject in Salome, the biblical figure who served as her mother’s dutiful pawn in facilitating King Herod’s assassination of John the Baptist. By the late nineteenth century Salome had evolved into a far more aggressive and decadent creature, as witnessed in Oscar Wilde’s notorious play of 1891. That Henri adopted the theme in 1909 suggests his desire to capitalize on Salome’s high currency for controversy, which had been confirmed by the New York Metropolitan Opera’s scandal-provoking performance of Richard Strauss’s Salome (based on Wilde’s play) in 1907. The gleam of amusement that enhances Salome’s haughty expression slyly evokes her complicity in constructing Henri’s own reputation as a radical painter.

[greendayauthority]

Amherst, MA, 30 April 2005

📷: SmalltownLibraries

[garadinervi]

Irma McClaurin (photograph), June Jordan, sitting on steps, talking, ca. 1987, from a series of photographs of 'Tony Cade Bambara, June Jordan Conference, Williams College – Andrea Rushing's house', Williamstown, MA. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, Amherst, MA. © Irma McClaurin]

[koenji]

Yehudit Shadur (Israeli, 1928 - 2011), Deft Hands That Devise Skillful Works, Papercut, 40 × 33 in.

Exodus 35:35

They have been given the wisdom of heart to work all manner of crafts, of the designer and the weaver and the embroiderers in colors, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine twined linen, even of them of deft hands that do any workmanship and of those that devise skillful works

In an effort to gather works of beauty for the Tabernacle, the artisans, such as Bezalel, that G-d had endowed with “divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge of craft” were summoned to contribute their crafts in the presence of the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

This mural papercut was made for the former Fiber Art Center in Amherst, MA as a way to honor all manner of crafts. x

[johnthestitcher]

Just a few amazing images from the "Hands Across the Valley Quilter's Guild" show at Hampshire College this past weekend. Great Stuff!

[professionalintrovert]

📍Emily Dickinson Museum

Amherst, MA

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Dwell in possibility. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. 🏡

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[notasfilosoficas]

"Para viajar lejos, no hay mejor nave que un libro"

Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, fue una poeta estadounidense nacida en Massachusetts en diciembre de 1830. Su poesía la sitúa entre los poetas fundamentales estadounidenses junto a Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson y Walt Withman.

Proveniente de una familia rica de Nueva Inglaterra, sus antepasados habían llegado a los Estados Unidos en la primera ola migratoria puritana y la estricta religión protestante influiría sobre la obra de la artista.

Su padre era abogado, juez y congresista y su madre estuvo al cuidado de sus hijas, tuvo un hermano mayor y una hermana menor.

Es casi imposible reconstruir la infancia de la poeta, ya que son escasos los datos que poseen los investigadores, solo se sabe que tuvo relación con dos primas huérfanas a las cuales ayudó a educar y a una de ellas, le llegó a leer alguno de sus poemas.

Su hermano Austin Dickinson, se casó en 1856 con Susan Huntington Gilbert, quien era ex compañera de estudios de Emily en la Academia Amherst, y parece haber cumplido un importante papel en la vida emocional de la escritora, ya que siendo vecinos, Susan se convirtió en amiga, amante y confidente de la poeta, hechos que constan en la correspondencia dirigida a ella, en donde Susan al parecer fue la destinataria de cerca de trescientos poemas de amor.

Durante toda su vida, Emily se puso en manos de hombres a los que consideraba más sabios que ella, y que podían indicarle qué libros debía leer, cómo organizar sus conocimientos y allanar el camino del arte que ella pretendía recorrer.

El encierro y aislamiento autoimpuestos de Emily Dickinson, no fueron súbitos ni anormales al comienzo. Desde su alejamiento del seminario hasta su muerte, Emily vivió tranquilamente en la casa de su padre. Entre sus veinte y treinta años, Emily iba a la iglesia, hacía compras y se comportaba perfectamente en todos los aspectos, pero a finales de 1861, la poeta comenzó a rehuir las visitas y las salidas, y empezó a vestirse exclusivamente de blanco.

Por otra parte, su hermana Laivina, jugó el papel de compañera y amiga de la poeta, de quien sentía una profunda adoración y respeto, manteniendo ocultas sus obras y vida privada hasta donde le fue dado hacerlo. La fe de Laivina en las obras de su hermana, permitieron la protección para la posteridad de sus obras. 

En los últimos quince años de su vida, nadie en Amherst volvió a verla, a menos que algún paseante ocasional la viera pasear vestida de blanco por el jardín de los Dickinson en verano.

Cuando murió su sobrino menor, último hijo de Austin Dickinson y Susan Gilbert, el espíritu de Emily que adoraba a ese niño, se quebró definitivamente. Paso todo el verano de 1884 en una silla, postrada por el mal de Bright, muriendo en mayo de 1886 a la edad de 55 años.

Solo cuatro escritos fueron publicados en vida, y poco después de la muerte de la poetisa, su hermana Vinnie descubrió ocultos en su habitación 40 volúmenes encuadernados a mano, los cuales contenían parte sustancial de la obra de Emily, y mas de 800 poemas nunca publicados ni vistos por nadie.

Su primera colección de poesías se publicó en 1890, y en 1955, el erudito Thomas H. Johnson publicó una colección completa de Dickinson, la primera de poesía y en su mayoría sin cambios, y a pesar de que tuvo una crítica y recepción desfavorable a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, Emily Dickinson está considerada de forma casi universal como una de las más importantes poetas estadounidenses de todos los tiempos.

Fuente: Wikipedia.

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Destroyer (solo) The Drake, Amherst, MA 25 October 2024

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Super Tuesday in Amherst – one week later 03/13/2024

Poll workers and voters share perspectives

"In Amherst, ultimately 385 of 3,316 Democratic votes went to “no preference” while 2,698 went to Biden, a lower “no preference” percentage than that of Northampton. Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Amherst, with 61 percent of the vote to Trump’s percent and 2 percent for ‘no preference’ out of about 500 Republican ballots. According to an October 2022 voter enrollment count by the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, out of an estimated population of over 40,000, only 14,514 Amherst residents were registered to vote, of whom 7,300 were Democrat, 408 Republican and 6,639 unenrolled."

READ MORE https://dailycollegian.com/2024/03/super-tuesday-in-amherst-one-week-later/

Mar 13, 2024 #TYT#TheYoungTurks#BreakingNews

It looks like it's not inevitable that 2024 will be the rematch nobody asked for. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola and Jordan Uhl discuss on The Young Turks.

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