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Ancestral Bridges

“Ancestral Bridges: Celebrating Black and Afro-Indigenous families who lived and worked in Amherst in the 18th through early 20th centuries,” an exhibit of historical photographs and artifacts, will be on view in Frost Library through the summer of 2024.

The Newport Family at Home


c. 1950, Northampton Road, Amherst
Edward “Pop” Newport, surrounded by two generations