How to get there
Amherst is 95 miles west of Boston. Once in Amherst, go under the railroad overpass and take an immediate right onto Dickinson Street. Two blocks down, turn left onto Main Street.
What to do
Celebrate the opening of the new Emily Dickinson Museum (280 Main St., 413-542-8161) with a week of free events.
Today, 4 p.m.
An Appreciative Reading
Louise Gluck, US poet laureate
Johnson Chapel
Amherst College
Wednesday, noon-6 p.m., Thursday-Friday, 10-6, Saturday, 10-5
"Can I expound the skies?"
A marathon reading of Emily Dickinson's 1,789 poems.
The Homestead
280 Main St.
Saturday, 1 p.m.
Contemporary Photographs, Historic Subjects: Material Insights into the Dickinsons of Amherst
Conversation between photographer Jerome Liebling and literary scholar Christopher Benfey, authors of "The Dickinsons of Amherst" (University Press of New England)
First Congregational Church
165 Main St.
Saturday, 3 p.m.
"Sweet Velocity": The Story of Emily Dickinson and Her Young Nephew, Gilbert
Author Connie Kirk discusses Emily's Dickinson's nephew who died at age 8.
First Congregational Church
Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
"Always Going Back and Forth Between": The Story of the Dickinson Family on Amherst's Main Street, in Their Own Words
Staged reading with piano and banjo music popular with the Dickinson family and seven Dickinson poems set to music.
First Congregational Church
