Hidden History: A Walking Tour

with Betty Sharpe, Co-director, Historic Northampton

Sepia toned photograph of four young boys standing against a brick wall of a building, in height order, tallest to smallest. Three are holding newspapers under their arms, All are barefoot and wearing worn and dirty clothes. None of them are smiling.

Photo by Lewis Hine of newspaper boys on Market Street, Northampton, August 1912. Courtesy of the National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress.

Event Details

September 19, 26, 28, and October 8, 2025

Many of today’s familiar locations in downtown are the sites of historical events which are no longer remembered but which ought to be.

Join co-director Elizabeth Sharpe as we visit sites where moments of injustice, political division, and social progress  took place, including where:

  • Mary Bliss Parsons lived when she was accused of witchcraft in the late 1600s,
  • formerly enslaved Moidore and Boston lived,
  • Frederick Douglass spoke in 1844,
  • the first weddings of same-sex couples took place in 2004, and much more.