Why I Never Left Williams College

“Farley is a treasure, and his story is college sports perfection,” says Tim Layden of Sports Illustrated and NBC Sports. When Dick Farley started at Williams College as a football and track and field coach in 1972, he had no intention of staying in Williamstown. Now, 49 years later, he… Continue reading »

Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective

This exhibition catalog by Elaine Y. Yau, Lawrence Rinder and Horace Ballard, Williams College curator of American art, was produced by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and presents the quilts and found-object art of Rosie Lee Tompkins through brilliant photos and thoughtful essays. The New… Continue reading »

The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy

By Julia McKenzie Munemo. Swallow Press, January 2020. Available on Amazon. When a stack of interracial romance novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemo’s kitchen table, she—a white woman—had been married to a black man for six years and their first son… Continue reading »