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By CAROLYN BROWN

Florence-based author and illustrator Grace Lin is known for books like “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” (for which she received a Newbery Honor in 2010), “The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon,” “The Ugly Vegetables,” and “A Big Mooncake for Little Star” (for which she received a Caldecott Honor in 2019). Now, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst is celebrating Lin’s work with a career retrospective.

By CHRIS LARABEE

As the national art and celebrity worlds coalesced at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Met Gala in early May, the exhibition coinciding with the event at the nation’s most-visited museum also featured several local ties.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SHELBURNE FALLS — The Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum will open for the season on Saturday, May 24.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Democracy is alive at the Mohawk Trail Regional School. 

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

With all Institute of Museum and Library Services having been placed on administrative leave and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners announcing cuts to services and grants on Wednesday, local librarians are anticipating continued uncertainty heading into fiscal year 2026.

By ADA DENENFELD KELLY

NEW SALEM — After receiving new language for the conditions of the site plan for the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art, the Planning Board approved the museum’s application last week.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ERVING – The Erving Historical Commission is looking to decrease its membership size and establish a new oversight committee for the Pearl B. Care Building located at 2 West Main St. in Erving Center, based on member interest in the building’s contents.

By DOMENIC POLI

NEW SALEM — The attorney representing the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art’s owners hopes to meet with some of the institution’s abutters to hash out differences as he works to secure site plan approval for this clients.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

The Smithsonian is coming to the Mohawk Trail Regional School. The school has been selected to host the traveling “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” exhibit in spring 2025. 

By DON STEWART

She’s the first woman, and the first Canadian, to present a solo exhibit of her work at the Library of Congress, and two of her paintings can be found at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery. You’d recognize Anita Kunz’s often satirical works from...

By CAROLYN BROWN

The album “Free to Be… You and Me,” released by Marlo Thomas in 1972, inspired a generation to think beyond gender stereotypes. Now, the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst is celebrating the “Free to Be...” project’s lasting legacy and impact in a new...

SHELBURNE FALLS — Trolleyfest is on track to return on Saturday, Sept. 28, celebrating the mode of travel of yesteryear and the restoration of Trolley No. 10. Trolley No. 10 is a relic of the trolley era of 1896-1927, according to the Shelburne Falls...

By DON STEWART

He was prominent in the court of Napoleon Bonaparte and painted the Emperor and Josephine and many of the significant figures of that time. Among his close friends were the General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, father of the famed author, and the Marquis de...

By DON STEWART

“Working for Mad means never having to grow up.” John Ficarra, Mad magazine editor-in-chief 1985-2018The Norman Rockwell Museum’s current exhibit provides a nostalgic voyage for Baby Boomers, a gold mine for pop historians and a wellspring of ideas...

By TINKY WEISBLAT

The Tired Telegrapher’s Terribly Tall Traveler’s Taleby Alden Dreyerprivately published160 pages, $19Alden Dreyer has lived in Shelburne for decades and is the chair of the board of the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum. As his autobiographical book...

STEVE PFARRER

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has displayed the work of dozens and dozens — or more likely hundreds — of illustrators and writers over the years, in solo exhibits and group shows.Among them have been a fair number of artists from other...

By CARLA CHARTER

Laura Barletta and her husband Vincent’s connection to New Salem began with Vincent’s grandmother Helen Truman, who attended school at New Salem Academy. After the school closed in 1969, the building, which originally housed the home economics classes...

By CHRIS LARABEE

In partnership with the American Folk Art Museum, Historic Deerfield is presenting an exhibition on the unexplored histories of Black people in early America.“Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North” explores Black...

By CARLA CHARTER

At Harvard Forest in Petersham, visitors can learn about the forest and its history through dioramas dating back to the 1930s. The dioramas and the museum that was built for them was the idea of Richard T. Fisher, who was named director and primary...

By STEVE PFARRER

Between the “Dickinson” series on Apple TV+ and movies such as 2016’s “A Quiet Passion,” interest in Emily Dickinson has grown in the last several years, even beyond the already intense admiration that existed for her poetry among readers and literary...

By BELLA LEVAVI

SHELBURNE FALLS — Outgrowing the Car Barn built in 2016, the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum is expanding so that it can store more trolleys in its facilities.The expansion will increase its already existing 40 by 60-foot Car Barn by 43 feet. The...