2019 Events

What can we learn about the passions, personality and humanity of the Boston poet who rightfully should be considered among our nation’s Founding Mothers? On Monday, February 24, 2019, author Richard Kigel will speak on his book, Heav’nly Tidings from the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley (Paragon House, 2017). This book tells the story of a unique young woman who survived the horrific Middle Passage as a child and arrived in America as a lowly slave. By the time...

What did people on the Massachusetts frontier hear from their minister when they gathered for weekly worship each Sunday in the 1640s? What were the most important issues in the community of Springfield in its first decade? And what concerned their minister?

On Thursday, April 11, 2019, at 4 p.m., the Library will host author David M. Powers, who while doing research for his biography of William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, was able to decode two sets of notes taken in 1640....