On Display: Written History

For twenty-seven years students have gathered at Gettell Amphitheater to take part in the Lunar Howling Society’s monthly ritual In the early days of each fall semester campus security often receives a worried call from a first-year student about the sudden howling emanating from Gettell Amphitheater. Not to worry, the dispatcher will say, reassuring a…... » Read More

Mary Lyon's Key Few details are known about the key to Mount Holyoke’s original Seminary building, but the Archives and Special Collections counts it among its collection. A skeleton key on an oversized circular ring, the key belonged to Mary Lyon, who used it to access the Seminary’s main entrance. The building housed every function…... » Read More

Within Pratt Music Hall resides the small, quiet Eleanor Pierce Stevens Library of Music. The space is named after Eleanor Pierce Stevens ’25 and was established in 2001 as part of the building’s renovation, which also resulted in improvements to the concert hall, now McCulloch Auditorium. Stevens was a French major at Mount Holyoke and…... » Read More