50 Years Ago■On Thursday, for the first time in over five years, a passenger train will connect Montreal and New York, passing through Northampton. That this is only a one-day run in no way detracts from the significance of the event. AMTRAK is.
I’d like to address three major misconceptions in Alex Kent’s guest column, “Amherst should be bold and build a library for all” (Nov. 28). I was the curator of Special Collections at the Jones Library for 17 years, from 1982 to 1999, years that.
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Besides being important figures in American history and letters, what do Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln and many others have in common? All had documents forged in their name by Utah’s Mark Hofmann.
There’s a moment in the Netflix docuseries
Murder Among the Mormons when co-director Tyler Measom asks Shannon Flynn if Hofmann really was the best forger of all times. Flynn, a long-time associate of Hofmann’s, replies, “Don’t ask me that. I don’t want to make a hero out of him, because he was fantastic. No one has come close to doing what he has done.” We’ll talk this Friday at noon about Hofmann’s work as a forger, first with archivist Daniel Lombardo, who, in 1997, purchased what he believed to be an undiscovered Emily Dickinson poem written in her own hand and then with Hofmann expert and author Simon Worrall.
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The Camden County Freedom Medal is presented to civic leaders who show ideals and actions that reflect the ideals of Martin Luther King Jr. (Shutterstock)
GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ The founder of a Gloucester Township nonprofit organization will be awarded freedom medals during the county s annual ceremony, which will take place virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced.
Christina DeCristofor, the founder of Operation Kindness, will receive the Camden County Freedom Medal. The medal, created by the county in 2001, is presented to civic leaders who demonstrate ideals and actions that reflect the principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Camden County Freedom Medal is presented to civic leaders who show ideals and actions that reflect the ideals of Martin Luther King Jr. (Shutterstock)
COLLINGSWOOD, NJ A Collingswood man who helps combat food insecurity in Camden will be awarded freedom medals during the county s annual ceremony, which will take place virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced.
Gerald Davis, the executive director of the TOUCH New Jersey Food Alliance in North Camden, will receive the Camden County Freedom Medal.
The medal, created by the county in 2001, is presented to civic leaders who demonstrate ideals and actions that reflect the principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.