Student Contributor Deidra Montgomery was a member of the class of 2010 at Amherst College. She majored in music and wrote
Author: Bridget Dahill
Sacred Harp: A Brief History
History In the late 1700s, learned New England musicians called “singing masters” appeared as a result of discontent about the
About the Project
Student Contributors Thomas Sibley is a member of the class of 2010 at Amherst College majoring in Geology after spending
People and Places
Ismael Santiago Born in Corozal, Puerto Rico, Ismael married his wife Carmen at age 17, a year before they moved to the
Puerto Rican Immigration to the Pioneer Valley
The Santiago Family Restaurant has been in Westfield, Massachusetts for just over 10 years now. October 15, 2009 marked the
About Jíbaros
A Short History of Jíbaros Jíbaros, the Taíno word for “People of the Forest,” are the mountain people of Puerto
Our Lady of Sorrows Sings On: The Sounds of Catholic Worship in Holyoke (2009)
Holyoke was originally founded as a prosperous mill town. The first Polish immigrants settled there in 1887, and in 1896
A Short History of the Cuatro
The cuatro—also the word for “four” in Spanish—was originally a four-stringed instrument roughly fashioned in the mountains and hills of