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11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Wednesday - Sunday, March - December.
Summer hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wednesday - Sunday during June, July, and August
Closed January and February.
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Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon
Saturday, September 24, 2011 Time: 7 a.m. - ??? Location: The Emily Dickinson Museum Fee: None Emily Dickinson lovers of all ages are invited to join the Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon, a daylong marathon reading of all 1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson. The annual event, sponsored by the Emily Dickinson Museum, will begin at 7 a.m. at the Homestead and continue until the 1,789th poem is read (approximately 11 p.m.). All are welcome to participate in the free event as a reader, a listener, or both! Stay for just a single poem or join us for the entire day. Readers who arrive between 7 and 10 a.m. receive a "poetry coffee break" discount coupon to The Black Sheep Deli in Amherst. Readers who arrive between 5 and 7 p.m. receive a "poetry pick-me-up" at Bart's Ice Cream. Readers at the end will toast the last poem. Pictured above are those present for the very last poem at last year's marathon reading. For information on how you can participate, please e-mail csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org. More information on the Poetry Marathon. Help us Tweet the marathon. 
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Second Annual Emily Dickinson Baking Contest
 Emily Dickinson was well-known among friends and family for her baked goods. She even won second place (and 50 cents) for her Rye and Indian Bread in the 1856 Amherst Cattle Show!
In the spirit of her success, the Emily Dickinson Museum is sponsoring its second annual baking contest. Entrants may choose to make one or more of the following recipes:
- Gingerbread (Youth and Adult categories)
- Coconut Cake (Youth and Adult categories)
- Black Cake (Adult category)
- Rye and Indian Bread (Adult category)
Rules for entering as well as recipes for all four categories are available in a downloadable PDF, Contest Rules and Recipes.
If you'd like to enter the contest, please complete our Intention to Enter form. The deadline for submitting the form is Thursday, September 22.
Entries must be delivered to the First Congregational Church (165 Main Street) across the street from the Emily Dickinson Museum between noon and 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 24. Prizes, which include Emily Dickinson Museum aprons, will be awarded at 4 p.m.--and all second-place winners will also receive 50 cents.
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| It's Friends Day, Too!
"Home was always dear to me & dearer still the friends around it"
Emily Dickinson to her brother Austin, 17 Feb 1848
Members of the Friends of the Emily Dickinson Museum enjoy their first annual Friends Day on September 24. Friends will have an opportunity to "parse a poem" in a members-only poetry discussion group at 11:30 a.m. with poet John Hennesy and at 1:30 p.m. with Dickinson biographer Polly Longsworth. Stay for lunch with the executive director Jane Wald to learn about current and future plans at the Museum, and anchor two "member marathon" hours.
Not yet a Friend? Read on, then join!
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Become a Friend of the Emily Dickinson Museum
Join us in preserving Emily Dickinson's vibrant poetic and material legacy by becoming a Friend. $65 annual membership dues provide free admission, program and shop discounts, complimentary passes, and other valuable benefits.
Membership also makes a wonderful gift! |
| Upcoming Fall Programs
An exciting schedule of programs awaits you this fall! There's something for all kinds of interests, so mark your calendar for these programs--and bring a friend.
- Sunday, October 16, 2-4:30 p.m., Amherst College Alumni House
Women's Fashions from 1850 to the 1880s, the Time of Emily Dickinson, a lecture and workshop with Lynda Meyer, costume historian. Details...
- Friday, October 28, 2011, 7 p.m., Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College
"My Business Is To Sing": Modern settings of Emily Dickinson poems, featuring works by Aaron Copeland, Eric Sawyer and Ross Bauer, performed by Sarah Pelletier and Lois Shapiro.
Preceded at 4:30 p.m. by a discussion with the performers and two of the composers in Room 3, Arms Music Center, Amherst College. Details...
- Saturday, November 12, 3 p.m., Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
A Poetry Reading by Alice Fulton, recipient of a 2011 American Academy of arts and Letters Award in Literature. Details...
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A Virtual Tour: Take the Survey
The Emily Dickinson Museum is considering adding a virtual tour to its website and we need your help, as one close to the Museum, to create the most effective format. We hope you will take a few moments to answer the survey questions. If you complete the survey by September 30, 2011, you may enter a drawing to win a special Emily Dickinson thank you gift. Please click here to begin the survey now. |
| Special Subscription Offer
 The Common is a new literary magazine inspired by the New England town common and literature as common ground. Based at Amherst College, the handsome biannual print journal features literature and images with a modern sense of place.
The spring 2011 debut issue contains poetry by Mary Jo Salter and Honor Moore, an essay by Ted Conover, short fiction by Lauren Groff, and many more works by authors from around the world.
In recognition of the Emily Dickinson Museum's community of dedicated and adventurous readers, the editors of The Common are offering recipients of Emily's E-Update a special, time-limited subscription offer: Subscribe to The Common by the end of September and receive debut Issue 01 for free. Three issues for the price of two (just $20 total). Issue 01 will be shipped right away, followed by Issue 02 in late October and Issue 03 next spring. Look forward to poems by Tom Sleigh and Susan Kinsolving, nonfiction by Phillip Lopate, bilingual folktales by Ilan Stavans, 19th-century drawings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and a special portfolio of new South African poetry.
Click here to take advantage of this offer now through September 30: http://thecommononline.org/subscribe-edm
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Sesquicentennial Symposium - Civil War Causes and Consequences
 2011 marks the beginning of the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, the most notable historical event to take place during Emily Dickinson's lifetime. Five College Learning in Retirement is sponsoring "Civil War Causes and Consequences," a two-day symposium that will bring together scholars from across the country to discuss the backdrop of the war and its continuing legacy. Keynote speakers include Eric Foner from Columbia University and David Blight from Yale University.
Among the small group sessions will be "A Civil War of Words," led by Lois Brown from Mt. Holyoke College: The tumult, tragedy, heroism, and sacrifice at the core of the War loom large in the American literary imagination and in the works of writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.
The symposium will take place at the University of Massachusetts Amherst at Mahar Auditorium and the Isenberg School of Management from October 14-15. The event is free and open to the public. More information can be found at the 5CLIR website or by calling 413-585-3756. |
A New Face at the Museum
 The Emily Dickinson Museum is delighted to introduce Mardi Krantz who recently joined the Museum's staff as its Development Officer, a newly created position. Mardi grew up in a small town called Christmas, Michigan before moving south to Virginia. Mardi most recently worked as the Director of Development and Programs at Equality Virginia, a small statewide non-profit located in Richmond, Virginia. Previously, she worked at Hollins College as the Manager of Alumnae Admissions Volunteers, as well as the Assistant Director of Admissions.
At the Emily Dickinson Museum, Mardi will be working with its fundraising, special events, membership programs.
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Keep in Touch: Follow the Museum on Facebook and Twitter!
The Museum has created a presence on Facebook and Twitter to share news, events, and information about Emily Dickinson with the online commmunity.
Be sure to like our Facebook fan page and follow us on Twitter to stay up to date with our latest happenings. July and August will feature daily updates from the life and literature of Emily Dickinson, including extracts from poems and letters as well as historical tidbits.
 
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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 overseen by a separate Board of Governors. The Museum is responsible for raising its own operating and capital funds.
The Emily Dickinson Museum is a member of Museums10, a collaboration of ten museums linked to the Five Colleges in the Pioneer Valley--Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Museum's Tour Center may be reached at 413-542-2947, Wednesday through Sunday, during museum hours. |
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