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History told through hats: Amherst’s millinery legacy comes alive in new exhibit

In the 1870s, the largest palm leaf hat factory in the world, which produced hundreds of thousands of hats each year, was based in Amherst. A new history exhibit is celebrating Amherst’s connections to millinery (hatmaking) in venues around the town. Ancestral Bridges, a nonprofit and archive celebrating Black and Afro-Indigenous history in western Massachusetts, […]

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