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Amherst Libraries and Museums Collaborate to Support Literacy Through Archaeology

Literacy Meets Archaeology in Amherst This Summer! Do your kids totally dig archaeology? Here’s your chance to tie their interest in dinosaurs, fossils and artifacts into reading this summer… The Jones Library in Amherst along with its branches will be collaborating with two local museums in a free family event, Dig It! A Festival of Art, Books, and Fossils. Dig It! will be held at both the Beneski Museum of Natural History and… Read More

Category: Hampshire County, Museum, Suggested Activity Tags: Archaeology, Collaborations, Community Based Education, Literacy, Pioneer Valley, Reading Program, summer reading program, western massachusetts

Own the Night: Palmer Library Poster Contest for Teens

Own the Night Teens are invited to showcase their art and design skills in the Palmer Library’s poster contest! This year’s summer reading program theme is, “Own the Night,” and the library invites local high school students to create a poster expressing the theme – all entries will be shown at the library, and three winners will be chosen! Artists can use essentially any medium (or media) that they like, and are… Read More