On the Same Page Special Edition Newsletter

Join us for our 11th annual community read as we explore Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez. There will be a number of special programs throughout March as we explore some of the topics suggested by this novel. Books can be borrowed at the Jones Library reference desk and both branches.  And please save the date for the author event at the end of the month! Learn more...

Documentary Screening:  Landfall

Saturday, March 11 at 3:00 pm

Woodbury Room - Jones Library

Join us for a documentary that chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the fraught relationship between the US and Puerto Rico.

Book Discussion

Thursday, March 16 at 7:00 pm  

Woodbury Room - Jones Library

Join Jones Library staff member Linda Wentworth for an in-depth discussion of our selected title.

Puerto Ricans Making the Valley Home

Saturday, March 18 at 3:00 pm  

Woodbury Room - Jones Library

In this talk, Maria Cartagena addresses the migration of Puerto Ricans to Holyoke and throughout the Valley. She will answer questions like why Holyoke? Why the Valley? She will speak to the deep activist history of Puerto Ricans in the Valley, the desegregation of schools, the shift in the political climate, and making the Valley home.

Puerto Rico's Past, Present, and Possible Futures

Saturday, March 25 at 3:00 pm 

Woodbury Room - Jones Library

Paul Schroeder Rodriguez will begin with an overview of Puerto Rico's anticolonial movements under Spain and the United States, proceed with a summary of today's political and cultural landscape, and conclude by considering how community-based organizations are testing and advancing decolonial futures for Puerto Ricans on the island and in the diaspora.

On the Same Page... 

with Xochitl Gonzalez

Tuesday, March 28 at 7:00 pm 

Amherst Regional Middle School Auditorium

Join us for an exciting in-person evening with author Xochitl Gonzalez, as she reads from and discusses her debut novel Olga Dies Dreaming.  

Books will be available for purchase and signing.