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Sunday, March 15, 2026

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Ann-Elizabeth Barnes & “Mumbet”

Bushnell-Sage Library 48 Main St, Sheffield, MA, United States

The Friends of the Bushnell-Sage Library invite the public to a free Author Talk on Sunday, March 15 at 2:30pm. Ann-Elizabeth Barnes will talk about the life of slave, then former slave, Elizabeth"Mumbet" Freeman and her impact on slavery in MA. Barnes wrote the book "Free Woman on God's Earth" based on Freeman's life in […]

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Revolutionary Sheffield: Crossroads of American Liberty

Bushnell-Sage Library 48 Main St, Sheffield, MA, United States

Join professor Justin F. Jackson as he discusses the role that Sheffield, and Berkshire County at large, played in the American Revolution. Justin F. Jackson is a historian and visiting lecturer and scholar with the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also writes a column on history for the Berkshire Eagle. […]

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