Past Events
This page contains descriptions of and links to recordings of our most recent presentations. For earlier events, please visit our YouTube Channel.
Wed, Oct 16Richard Salter Storrs LibraryOct 16, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PMRichard Salter Storrs Library, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Sat, Oct 05Longmeadow CemeteryOct 05, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PMLongmeadow Cemetery, 61 Williams St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Sat, Sep 28Richard Salter Storrs LibrarySep 28, 2024, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PMRichard Salter Storrs Library, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Tue, Sep 24LongmeadowSep 24, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PMLongmeadow, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Wed, Sep 18LongmeadowSep 18, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PMLongmeadow, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Thu, Sep 05LongmeadowSep 05, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PMLongmeadow, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Wed, Aug 21Storrs LibraryAug 21, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PMStorrs Library, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAAug 21, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PMStorrs Library, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAUsing primary source material, this presentation will focus on the practices of several local doctors in the Longmeadow and Springfield, MA area to illustrate what medical care was like in the period after the revolution to the second quarter of the 19th century.
Sat, Aug 17Storrs House Museum, LongmeadowAug 17, 2024, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PMStorrs House Museum, Longmeadow, 697 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Sat, Apr 20LongmeadowApr 20, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PMLongmeadow, 697 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Fri, Apr 19LongmeadowApr 19, 2024, 9:00 AM – Apr 21, 2024, 6:00 PMLongmeadow, 56 Williams St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAApr 19, 2024, 9:00 AM – Apr 21, 2024, 6:00 PMLongmeadow, 56 Williams St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAIt's officially spring! And we celebrate with the 4th annual Daffodil Days Fundraiser! Our generous neighbors have again offered up their gardens for picking daffodils--pick a bouquet, leave a donation to benefit the Longmeadow Historical Society. Bring your own clippers!- Wed, Apr 17Storrs LibraryApr 17, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PMStorrs Library, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Sat, Apr 13Longmeadow Historical SocietyApr 13, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PMLongmeadow Historical Society , 697 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA- Fri, Apr 12LongmeadowApr 12, 2024, 9:00 AM – Apr 14, 2024, 6:00 PMLongmeadow, 56 Williams St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAApr 12, 2024, 9:00 AM – Apr 14, 2024, 6:00 PMLongmeadow, 56 Williams St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAIt's officially spring! And we celebrate with the 4th annual Daffodil Days Fundraiser! Our generous neighbors have again offered up their gardens for picking daffodils--pick a bouquet, leave a donation to benefit the Longmeadow Historical Society. Bring your own clippers!
- Fri, Apr 05LongmeadowApr 05, 2024, 9:00 AM – Apr 07, 2024, 6:00 PMLongmeadow, 56 Williams St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAApr 05, 2024, 9:00 AM – Apr 07, 2024, 6:00 PMLongmeadow, 56 Williams St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAIt's officially spring! And we celebrate with the 4th annual Daffodil Days Fundraiser! Our generous neighbors have again offered up their gardens for picking daffodils--pick a bouquet, leave a donation to benefit the Longmeadow Historical Society. Bring your own clippers!
Wed, Jan 10LongmeadowJan 10, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PMLongmeadow, 211 Maple Rd, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Wed, Jan 03Storrs Library, LongmeadowJan 03, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PMStorrs Library, Longmeadow, 693 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Wed, Dec 13LongmeadowDec 13, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PMLongmeadow, 211 Maple Rd, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA
Mon, Dec 11LongmeadowDec 11, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMLongmeadow, 211 Maple Rd, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USADec 11, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PMLongmeadow, 211 Maple Rd, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USAMost of us have information in our heads about Indigenous peoples, learned in school or from popular culture. Much of this information is wrong or based on biased assumptions. This lecture with discussion will present the concept of unlearning what we already know as the starting point for learning
Say Their Names was an event offered by the Longmeadow Historical Society in May 2022 at the First Church on the green. Bringing together months of research, the event honored the lives of sixteen individuals either enslaved by the church's first minister, Stephen Williams, or by others in town and were found in church records as members of the congregation in the 18th century.
In this presentation, Longmeadow Historical Society Board Member, Melissa M. Cybulski, will share her findings about the connections between Amherst’s famous poet, Emily Dickinson, and two cousins, both named Richard Salter Storrs, with deep ties to Longmeadow.
In this presentation, Longmeadow Historical Society Board Member Betsy McKee talks about some of the stories made visible by Longmeadow's gravestones and research on its unmarked graves.
Al and Betsy McKee live in a house built around 1801 by the gravestone carver Hermon Newell. Once they discovered that their house was built by a stonecutter, they began to learn more about early gravestones in the Connecticut River Valley and nearby New England towns. Betsy discusses stories about early town residents gleaned from the historic Longmeadow cemetery. The illustrated presentation includes information about the original appearance of graveyards, symbolism, gravestone carvers, and stories carved in stone. It also includes exciting discoveries made possible by the use of Ground Penetrating Radar and LiDAR scanning.