The Serviceberry Book Group Discussion

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 7-8:30 p.m.

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

by Robin Wall Kimmerer (available at Amherst Books)

Serviceberry bush planting: Sunday, April 27, 2025, 11:30 a.m.

Reservations: call (413) 253-2977

Amherst Regional High School Hurricane Singers

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 7 p.m.

A concert directed by Todd Fruth

Free-will donation shared by ARHS and South Church

Reading Frederick Douglass Together

Saturday, July 5, 2025, 3-5 p.m.

A community reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass’s

influential speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

 

This program is funded in part by a grant from Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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In Defiance Book Group Discussion

Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3-4:30 p.m.

In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School

By Tom Weiner and Amilcar Shabazz (who will participate)

Reservations: call (413) 253-2977

Burgoff / Ricker Trio Musical Coffee House

Sunday, October 19, 2025, 3 p.m.

Mark Ricker, jazz guitar; Jimmy Burgoff, fretless bass ukulele;

Julian Burgoff, congas – refreshments served

Suggested donation: $20 per person

Reservations: call (413) 253-2977

Avalon Movie Night

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 5-8 p.m.

Pizza supper, screening of Barry Levinson’s Avalon (rated PG),

about three generations of an immigrant family, and discussion

Suggested donation: $5 per person, $15 maximum per family

Reservations: call (413) 253-2977