More exciting programming from the Emily Dickinson Museum!
-- Poetry in the Gardens of the Emily Dickinson Museum
-- EXHILARATION ! Emily Dickinson Museum & Song
-- Poems by Emily Dickinson: Paintings by Alberto Mancini
-- Special Sunday Afternoon Tour -- Reading group discusses Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter -- Emily Dickinson Museum Celebrates 5th Anniversary -- 3rd annual Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon -- Emily Dickinson History comes alive in special exhibition -- About the Museum
Calendar Listing Information Summer hours continue through
AUGUST
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Poetry in the Gardens of the Emily Dickinson Museum
Sunday, July 27, 2 p.m.
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EXHILARATION ! Emily Dickinson Museum & Song Location: Ventfort Hall, Lenox, Massachusetts A concert of song settings of poems by Emily Dickinson and poets that inspired her. Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano, Gregg Kallor, composer & pianist. Presented by the Berkshire Opera Company in partnership with the Emily Dickinson Museum and Ventfort Hall. For ticket and other information: http://berkshireopera.org/calendar/exhilaration/
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Poems by Emily Dickinson: Paintings by Alberto Mancini an exhibition by Italian artist, Alberto Mancini. August 3 - 10 12-5pm Eli Marsh Gallery 105 Fayerweather Hall Amherst College Amherst, MA, This event is presented by the Emily Dickinson Museum in conjunction with the Emily Dickinson International Society's 20th anniversary.
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Special Sunday Afternoon Tour Sundays at 3 p.m. though October The Dickinsons and the Meaning of House and Home. An hour-long examination of the meaning of house and home to the Dickinson family and to nineteenth-century New England society. The tour features the architecture of the Homestead and The Evergreens from outside and inside. Admission: Adults $8 Seniors $7 College Students $7, Students age 6-17 $5 under 6 free
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Reading group discusses Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter Reading/Discussion group Leader: Richard Millington At the Amherst Room, Jones Library Richard Millington received his B.A. from Harvard College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. In addition to a range of introductory classes, he teaches courses in American literature and American Studies. He is the author of Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction (Princeton, 1992) Hitchcock's America (Oxford, 1999), which includes his essay on North by Northwest.
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Emily Dickinson Museum Celebrates 5th Anniversary Such a Hurrah!The Emily Dickinson Museum's 5th Anniversary Celebration Festivities begin at 1 p.m.
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3rd annual Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon Location: The Emily Dickinson Museum The Museum will host its third marathon reading of all 1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson. Stay for all 16+ hours or drop in to listen for some of your favorites. The event will take place rain or shine. For information on how you can participate as a reader in the marathon, please visit www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/events or e-mail csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org.
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Emily Dickinson History comes alive in special exhibition The exhibit takes its title from Emily Dickinson's 1862 query to author and activist Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?" With documents and family artifacts, the exhibit traces the creation of her literary reputation through the competing efforts and loyalties of family members and intimates in the first fifty years after the poet's death. Free
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About the Museum 
The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and
The Evergreens is dedicated to educating diverse
audiences about the poet's life, family,
creative
work, times, and enduring relevance, and to
preserving and interpreting the Homestead and
The
Evergreens as historical resources for the
benefit of
scholars and the general public. The Emily
Dickinson
Museum is owned by the Trustees of Amherst
College and has its own Board of Governors,
which is charged with the responsibility of
raising the
Museum's operating and capital funds. The
Museum
is a member of Museums10,
a collaboration of 10 museums in the Pioneer
Valley.
To find out
how you can support the Emily Dickinson Museum,
click here.
The Tour Center may be reached at 413-542-2947, Wed-Sun during museum hours.
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