Forest, Field, and Flower – Intimate Landscapes from the Connecticut River Valley to Cape Cod The abstract realist paintings of Holyoke artist Russell Steven Powell engage each viewer with the complex beauty of the wild. Powell’s diverse career as an author, artist, videographer, and magazine publisher reflect a reverence for nature and a passion for the New England Landscape. […]

You are invited to build a brick race car for the 11th annual Great Holyoke Brick Race to be held Saturday, (no rain date). Held annual on Race Street, The Great Holyoke Brick Race involves designing and building a  race car using a standard brick, cleverly mounted on wheels and raced down an inclined track […]

For adults and teens. Two tours in one! Holyoke’s canals were the key to this planned industrial city.  Paper and textile mills set up shop as soon as sections were completed to reap the waterpower the canals provided. Learn how the waterways were constructed, how they work, and tour parts of first and second level […]