UMass Amherst History Department
Join us to hear Danielle Raad discuss her new book, Above the Oxbow: Stories Entangled with a Mountain (April 2026, West Virginia University Press). The book explores the intertwined narratives that surround Mount Holyoke, the locally cherished mountain in a Massachusetts state park with sweeping views of the Connecticut River Valley below and a two-hundred-year-old Summit House perched on top. Blending ethnographic and historical approaches, it is a public history that illuminates how communities interpret, preserve, and engage with Mount Holyoke’s past and form attachments to place on the mountain.