Greenfield Community College
Life Long Learning and Personal Enrichment at GCC
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesGreenfield Community College offers micro-courses and workshops for purposes of personal enrichment and life-long learning. These learning opportunities are offered at very reasonable prices, and facilitated by members of the regional community. For more information, and to register visit https://www.gcc.mass.edu/community/workshops/ For questions email Judy Raper, Associate Dean for Community Engagement at raperj@gcc.mass.edu. We are always open to new ideas!
Looking Beyond (or Among) the Big Stones
Green River Cemetery 56 Wisdom Way, Greenfield, MA, United StatesIn this free workshop participants are invited to join Carol Aleman for a visit to Green River Cemetery where she will expose a small slice of Greenfield’s less documented history. Over the past three years of researching the history of Greenfield’s Black community, Aleman has made her way past numerous stones and monuments in local cemeteries. She has collected more than 150 dates of death and 130 obituaries (or death notices) relating to the then town’s residents. Using her former mother-in-law’s introduction to “the Black section” of the cemetery as a frame of reference, she will lead participants to several selected grave sites and share highlights from the lives of those who quietly enriched the community and left a vibrant mark on Greenfield’s past. Free and open to the public, but RSVP is requested at https://www.gcc.mass.edu/events/looking-beyond-or-among-the-big-stones/.