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“I’m grateful I had that drive”. That’s what Ada Chupp said about her motivation to break the mold and carve her own, fulfilling, journey through life. For women of non-traditional college age, the Ada Comstock Scholars Program at Smith College allows for

I went to the Smith Botanical Gardens this past weekend, hoping to cheat time a bit. And I succeeded. Here are a few pictures, just for kicks.      Background music by DJ Burn One.

Miller Lecture: “Challenges, Revelations and Surprises” Curator Keith Christiansen and paintings conservator Michael Gallagher will discuss some of their recent collaborations including preparations for the current reinstallation of the galleries of European paintings

As part of Smith College’s Chaired Professor Lecture series, Professor Elliot Fratkin presents his lecture, titled “Africa: The Good, the Bad, the Unexpected,” discussing his anthropological research. Introduction by Professor Gregory White, Mary Huggin

Professor David E. Schneider, Amherst College, speaks on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Musical Modernism on the Eve of World War I. Earle Recital Hall, Smith College, Northampton, MA http://www.smith.edu/music/artsfest/

Poet Martha Collins reads from Blue Front, her book-length poem based on the lynching her father witnessed as a child in 1909, and from White Papers, the subsequent volume that explores what it means to be “white” in a multi-racial society, at Smith College’s Stoddard Hall