History retold: ‘The Hull/Hawley Plays’ bring two forgotten Northampton lives to light
Bathsheba Hull and Major Joseph Hawley III came from two very different walks of life —one was a formerly enslaved widow, and the other was a political figure with family ties to theologian Jonathan Edwards. Both of them dealt with life-upending struggles, and both are central figures in a new show of site-specific plays about…
A life unraveled: Playwright Elizabeth LaPrade explores life on death row in one-woman show at 33 Hawley
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Mixtape: It’s all about the EPs, baby: A couple of releases from Murder (sword) and Joshua David Thayer
By Jennifer Levesque For the Valley Advocate Murder (sword) Self-titled Easthampton-based Murder (sword) has been a band that I’ve been seeing a lot on social media and show…
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