This month two free historical presentations will take place in our building at 6 Williamsburg Road in Worthington, by the roundabout and Corners Grocery.
On Sunday, May 17, at 2:00, local historian Steven V. Cormier will present on his latest book Good Golly…Missed Trolley. (This event is sponsored by the Worthington Library.) The book examines the evolution and impact of the trolley system in Western Massachusetts, the various political and business actors involved, and why electric trolleys never made it to our town. Admission is free.
On Sunday, May 31, at 3:00, Prof. Bailey Stone will deliver a presentation on his book Women in the Great European Revolutions.
The book explores the roles, mentalities, and destinies of royal, elite, and laboring-class women in Europe’s classic sociopolitical revolutions: England’s “Puritan Revolution” of 1640-60, the French Revolution of 1789, and the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Stone, who currently lives in Northampton, is Emeritus Professor of European History and International Relations and taught primarily at the University of Houston. Previously he taught at Princeton University. His previous books include two studies of judicial politics in ancien régime France, two studies of the causes and trajectory of the French Revolution, The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of England, France, and Russia (2014), and Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe: A Neostructuralist Approach (2020). Stone now works in the Five Colleges Associates Program in Amherst.
Night of the Living Dead VIII. The Ghost Association of Worthington has nominated some of its members to address the public in a Worthington cemetery in September — date, time and location to be determined.
For history-related events in Western Massachusetts, also check the events calendar of the Pioneer Valley History Network.