The Valley Women's Movement A Herstorical Chronology 1968-1988

1968-1978 Compiled and Edited by Kaymarion Raymond and Elizabeth Letalien
1978-1984 Compiled and Edited by Amy Silverstein
1984-1988 Compiled and Edited by Lisa Renzi
©Valley Women's History Collaborative 1998

Year	Event	Location
1968	An undergraduate invites the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH), actually from New York City, to visit her house.	Smith College
1969	November. Four Amherst women find each other and find four more to form Amherst Women's Liberation (AWL). They meet Sunday nights and organize support groups.	Amherst
1970	AWL grows to one hundred members, meeting weekly in support groups and a large monthly forum in a church. Study groups on abortion and birth control, archves, continuing education, and welfare are formed.	Amherst
1970	Summer. AWL writes a statement of purpose based on studies of literature from Berkeley, California Women's Center.	Amherst
1970	August 26th. Celebration: "Fifty Years of Women's Suffrage."	Amherst Common
1970	September. Women's Health Counseling Project.	Springfield
1970	September. Women of Venceremos Brigade.	Springfield
1970	December. AWL opens the Valley Women's Center (VWC) with action groups based on their study groups, a newsletter, speaker's bureau, staff group, free personal counseling, and welfare advocacy and counseling.	Northampton
1970	December. Springfield Women's Collective forms support groups and publishes Small Arms.	Springfield
1971	January. Listing of "Courses On or About Women Offered in the Five Colleges" by VWC.	Northampton
1971	March 13th. Five College meeting of women teachers at Mount Holyoke College	South Hadley
1971	March 20th. Proposal is made to Five College inc for Five College Committee on Women's Studies.
1971	March. First issue of The Woman's Journal is published by the writers' support group of the VWC	Northampton
1971	March. Women's Liberation Teach-In at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	April. School of Education Women's Caucus at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	April. Dance in the Hatch with Steel sponsored by the Student Homophile League (SHL), Gay Liberation Front (GLF), and Women's Liberation at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	June. Gloria Steinem speaks at Smith College's graduation and visits the Valley Women's Center	Northampton
1971	July. Student Homophile League Lesbians present Gay-Straight Teach-In at AWL monthly forum	Northampton
1971	August. SHL and AWl share an information booth at the Tri-County Fair	Northampton
1971	August. AWL and SHL send delegates to the New England Lesbian Feminist Conference	Kent, CT
1971	Fall. The Women's Institute of the VWC writes a million dollar proposal for a residential women's community	Northampton
1971	Fall. The Five College Women's Studies Seminar begins
1971	September. Leverett Road Women's Collective	Amherst
1971	September. Project SELF workshops offered by the Women's Advisory Center of the Continuing Education Department at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	October. Leverett Road Women's Collective starts newspaper project	Amherst
1971	November. Southwest Women's Center get a janitor's closet for space at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	November. Women's Advisory Board. Continuing Education Department at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	November. Women's issues are raised at Student Conference at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	December 8th. Robin Morgan speaks as part of the Distinguished Visitors Program at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	December 15th. SHL Gay Women's Caucus formed at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	December 17-19. Regional Women's Conference for Western New England (Leverett Road Women's Collective). University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	December. Article on women's issues appears in Poor Richard, and alternative student paper	Amherst
1971	Child Care Center at University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Women at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	MauMau Society formed. English Department at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1971	Bi-weekly Women's Page appears in the Holyoke Transcript	Holyoke
1971	Undergraduate Student Senate Women's Committee at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1972	January. Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus meets at Smith College	Northampton
1972	February 15th . Women's Institute incorporates
1972	March 6-11. Five College Women's Cultural Week. Deadly Nightshade emerges from retirement
1972	March 8th. International Women's Day at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1972	April 25th. Shirley Chisholm is on Massachusetts primary ballot for US president
1972	April. Women take over the ROTC building at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1972	April. Women Against War Group. VWC.	Northampton
1972	Spring. First issue of Full Moon newspaper is published. Leverett Road Women's Collective	Amherst
1972	Spring. University of Massachusetts Ad Hoc Feminist Studies Committee meets to write a fifty page proposal for a feminist studies department. Committee has three "arms." The political group becomes the Radical Women's Caucus and a board.	Amherst
1972	Spring. Hampshire College clerical staff attempts to unionize, but loses the first election.	Amherst
1972	Spring. Southwest Women's Center offers its first Sex Roles course.	Amherst
1972	May 1st. Thirty women of Women Against War, later called the lizzie Borden Brigade, are arrested at Westover Air Force Base. Two hundred and fifty women are arrested in other actions
1972	May 29th. Lizzie Borden Brigade marches	Pittsfield
1972	May. New Haven Women's Film Coop turns their project over to the Women's Institute to form the Women's Film Coop.	Northampton
1972	June. Leverett Road Women's Collective disbands	Amherst
1972	July. An attempt to organize a Lesbian political study group.	Northampton
1972	August. Rainbow painted on VWC windows.	Northampton
1972	August. Lesbian drop-in, Tuesday nights. VWC.	Northampton
1972	August. Community Women's Center opens with support groups, counseling, child care exchange, newsletter and workshops.	Greenfield
1972	September 29th. "Escape from the Circle: Roles of Women in Education" Conference begins at Mount Holyoke College	South Hadley
1972	September. Everywoman's Center opens with personal counseling, staff women's program and Project SELF workshops, and newsletter at the University of Massachusetts	Amherst
1972	Fall. SWWC moves from closet to an apartment, expands course offerings	Amherst
1972	Fall. Feminist Studies Committee. Hampshire College	Amherst
1972	Fall. Virginia Woolf poster by Kaymarion published by EWC	Amherst
1972	Fall. Deadly Nightshade plays at Dickinson House. UMass	Amherst
1972	Fall. Women's Film Coop publishes first catalog.
1972	October. Mini-marathon with workshops and Robin Morgan speech. (School of Education Women's Caucus). UMass.	Amherst
1972	November. Monies from Robin Morgan and Sisterhood is Powerful Fund is divided by women's groups.
1972	November. Deadly Nightshade plays at dance. (SWWC). UMass.	Amherst
1972	December 14. Kate Millett speaks. UMass.	Amherst
1973	January. Meeting at the YWCA to discuss starting a women's center.	Springfield
1973	January. Poor Women's Task Force. (EWC).
1973	March 17. Rape Conference; Rape Action Group forms. (EWC/VWC).	Northampton
1973	March. Southwest, Orchard Hill, Central, Northeast and Sylvan residential areas women's centers meet. UMass.	Amherst
1973	March. Fight to get women's programming on WFCR.
1973	April 2-7. Women's Week. (SWWC/Project-10). UMass	Amherst
1973	April 6-8. Women's Festival, with the Deadly Nightshade. Smith College	Northampton
1973	April 10. First Sophia Sisters meeting. Smith College	Northampton
1973	April 28. Feminist Counseling Collective. (EWC/School of Education). UMass	Amherst
1973	April 30. Earth Onion Theatre. UMass	Amherst
1973	April. Feminist Arts Center; later called Feminist Arts Program. (EWC).	Amherst
1973	April. Bill Baird, speaking on abortion at UM, is questioned by "the lunatic fringe of the women's movement." (SWWC).	Amherst
1973	Spring. Hundreds of women meet to form UM Coalition on Abortion and Day care. UMass.	Amherst
1973	Spring. Deadly Nightshade plays Dickinson House. UMass.	Amherst
1973	Spring. Springfield Women's Center opens on State Street with groups on health, welfare, childcare, rape, media, newsletter, and support groups.	Springfield
1973	Spring. Lucy B. Stoners (1818) Women's Softball team. (SWWC).
1973	May 10. Alix Kates Shulman. (EWC). UMass	Amherst
1973	May. Women's Show. Old Farms Gallery. Petersham.
1973	May. MCAD hearings on suit brought against Smith College by two faculty women.	Northampton
1973	May. Voices of New Women is published. (FAC).
1973	Summer. Springfield Women's Center pickets Technicolor and Vincent's; leaflets the Welfare Office.	Springfield
1973	July 14. Mother Jones press.	Northampton
1973	July. The Women's Guide to Northampton-Amherst is published by the Women's Information Project. (Jones Library).	Amherst
1973	August 3. Women's Poetry Reading. (FAC/CWC).	Greenfield
1973	August. Almy's Department store is picketed by women employees and friends.
1973	August. Northampton women's coffee house project is discussed.	Northampton
1973	Fall. A Valley Women's Union collective meets to organize principles for a union of VWC.
1973	Fall. Whole Women's Center opens. Hampshire College.	Amherst
1973	Fall. UM Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Women forms a sub-committee on Women's Studies to write a proposal.	Amherst
1973	Fall. Task Force on Unemployment. (EWC).
1973	September. Picketing at Joe's Cafe in support of waitresses.	Northampton
1973	October. EWC moves to larger space in Goodell Hall. UM.	Amherst
1973	October. Women's Film Festival at Globe Theatre. (WFC).	Northampton
1973	November 8. University Women's Caucus
1973	November. WMUA comes up with one hour a week for women. UM.	Amherst
1973	November. Student Prince Bar is picketed for refusing to serve women.	Springfield
1973	November. Lilith plays. Smith and Mt. Holyoke Colleges.	Northampton, South Hadley
1973	November. Institute for Teaching Politics begins. (EWC).
1973	December. EWC given Governor's Commission on the Status of Women award for education.
1973	December. UM Women and Career Options gets Carnegie Foundation grant.	Amherst
1973	December. UM women attend Women in Higher Education Conference. Salem State College.
1973	December. Institute for Teaching Politics ends. (EWC).
1973	Valley Women's Studies is published. MHC.	South Hadley
1974	January 14-25. Every Woman's University. (EWC).	Amherst
1974	January 24-25. Working Conference on the Women's Movement. (Orchard Hill/VWU/EWC).	Amherst
1974	January. The Women's Hour/Show is organized on WMUA, Tuesday from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm, by the Women and Media course. (SWWC).	Amherst
1974	January. Valley Women's Center changes to a Union of: Mother Jones Press, Women’s Film Coop, Education, Employment, Staffing, Newsletter, Child Care, and Study and Research work groups.
1974	January. Bi-weekly Women's Column starts in the Valley Advocate.
1974	January. Issue of men as VWU members.
1974	February 6. Waitresses at Joe's Cafe are fired; picketing increases. (VWU).
1974	February 17. Benefit dance for Chomo-Uri with Lilith and Deadly Nightshade.
1974	February. Off-campus Lesbian discussion group. (EWC/Southwest Resource Center).	Amherst
1974	February. UM Society of Women Engineers. (EWC)	Amherst
1974	February. Picketing at Joe’s Cafe ends.
1974	March 8. International Women's Day. Nineteen hours of programming on WFCR.
1974	March 8. Springfield Rape Crisis Hotline.	Springfield
1974	March 11-16. National Women's Poetry Festival. (FAP).
1974	March 22. Picketing in support of women employed by Ramada Inn. (VWU).	Chicopee
1974	March. Women's Weekly Happenings. (EWC).
1974	March. Hampshire College clerical staff again attempts to unionize, through October. Staff Reunion is published. Second election lost by three votes.
1974	March. First issue of Chomo-Uri is published. (FAP).
1974	Spring. Springfield Women's Center moves to smaller space on Worthington Street. Sojourner Truth School for Women.	Springfield
1974	Spring. Lesbians join VWU Coordinating Board.
1974	May 10-12. Women's Weekend. (SWWC).
1974	May. Experimental Women's Studies program approved by UM Faculty Senate	Amherst
1974	June 10. Waitresses Conference. (VWU).
1974	June. New edition of the Women's Film Coop catalogue.
1974	Summer. VWU convenes four workshops
1974	July. Springfield Women's Center becomes a union	Springfield
1974	August. Community Women's Center in Greenfield closes	Greenfield
1974	August. Franklin County Women's Coalition publishes a Journal
1974	September 27-28. New Careers for Women: conference for high school guidance counselors. (EWC).
1974	September. Job Action Center for Waitresses; Tip-Off Newsletter. (VWU).
1974	September. Forty-nine women enroll in two year pilot Women's Studies Program. UM.	Amherst
1974	September. Non-sexist Parents Coop finds church space. (SWU)
1974	September. Students put together Women's Weekends. MHC	South Hadley
1974	October. Weekends for Everywoman. (EWC).
1974	October. CLIT papers studied at VWU.
1974	November 4. Benefit dance with Lilith and Deadly Nightshade.
1974	November. Lesbian Gardens space; Friday night discussion groups. (VWU).
1974	November. Dance with Lilith. Unitarian Church.	Springfield
1975	January 21-25. Eight hundred women attend University Women's Conference. (EWC/SWWC/Women's Studies).	Amherst
1975	January. New Year's bash with Lilith. Emerson House, UM.	Amherst
1975	January. First karate-self defense course taught at MHC.	South Hadley
1975	February. Women's Cultural Week. (FAP). UM.	Amherst
1975	February. "The Girl of Our Dreams" premieres and Amherst Feminist Repertory Company forms	Amherst
1975	March. Non-sexist Parents Coop rents space to open the Mudpie Childcare Coop. (SWU).	Springfield
1975	April 30. Barbara Ehrenreich: "Medicine and the Social Control of Women, sponsored by Carnegie Project on Women's Career Options. Hampshire College
1975	April. Two women arrested at the protest of rape lecture at Bay Path Junior College. (SWU/Rape Crisis Center).	Longmeadow
1975	Spring. Chapter of NOW.	Springfield
1975	Spring. New women's center at YWCA opens.	Springfield
1975	Spring. Emma Goldman Brigade forms out of a Project SELF workshop on Anarchism and Feminism
1975	Spring. Old Maid Lesbian newspaper based in Northampton is published.	Northampton
1975	Spring. Saturday night coffee house. (Lesbian Gardens).
1975	Spring. Arrests of prostitutes protested. (SWU).	Springfield
1975	May 6-11. Bimillenial Lesbian Week.
1975	May. Daycare sit-in of Chancellor's Office. UM.	Amherst
1975	May. Grand Jury Information Project begins. (Northampton Women's Law Center/SWU).
1975	May. Artandryl forms.
1975	June. Women's Wednesday Nights at Zelda's.	Northampton
1975	July. Santi's bar invaded for discrimination. (SWU/Western Mass. Legal Services).	Springfield
1975	July. Eighty or more local women attend the Socialist Feminist Conference. Yellow Springs, Ohio.
1975	July. Lesbian Community Education and Self Defense/Dyke Patrol forms.	Northampton
1975	July. Joanne Little demonstration. (SWU).	Springfield
1975	August. Miss World USA Pageant is picketed. (SWU/VWU).
1975	August. Women attacked at Gala Cafe.	Northampton
1975	August. Women's Health Care Collective forms; branches out of the Community Health Care Collective.	Florence
1975	August. Grand Jury Information Project ends.
1975	September. Green Street Tenants' Coop.	Northampton
1975	September. Article in MHC student paper prompts formation of Lesbian support group and CR workshops in dormitories.	South Hadley
1975	September. Spread the Word Distribution and People's Newsstand. UM.	Amherst
1975	September. Rape Crisis Center protests lack of police cooperation to Mayor.	Springfield
1975	September. Affirmative Action and Discrimination Counseling. (EWC).
1975	September. Legal Rights Committee (SWU) completes survey of UM school systems for compliance with Chapter 622 and Title IX regulations.	Amherst
1975	September. Sixty women enroll in Women's Studies program. UM	Amherst
1975	September 6. Benefit for Rape Crisis Center disrupted by police; one woman is beaten.	Springfield
1975	Fall. Graduate Women's Studies program. UM.	Amherst
1975	Fall. Magical Lesbian Playgroup forms. (LG).
1975	October 21. University Community Against Rape Conference.	Amherst
1975	October. Third World Women participate in rallies for Bilingual Collegiate Program and Earl Brown. UM.	Amherst
1975	October. Lesbian Gardens: all Lesbian space is started. Coffee house group starts and brings Lesbian talent from all over the East to the LG every Saturday night until late spring.
1975	October. Sweetcoming Bookstore, all women bookstore, opens. (LG).
1975	November 13, 20. Student nurses protest program cuts. UM.	Amherst
1975	December 21. Winter Solstice Celebration. (LG).
1975	December. "Sister Sharing" weekly program on WTCC. (SWU)
1975	Women's Health Care Night on Tuesdays. (Community Health Care Project).	Florence
1975	Liberty Standing forms.
1976	January. UM Lesbian Union forms out of the Gay Women's Caucus of the People's Gay Alliance (old SHL).
1976	January. YONI: Women's Sexuality Project.	Northampton
1976	Winter. Confrontation between AFARCE cast and some Lesbian-Separatists
1976	February. Women's Restaurant Project.Commonwomonclub.
1976	February. Student Senate women get bill passed to limit speaking time of male senators. Many bills sponsored and passed after this action. UM.	Amherst
1976	March 7-12. International Women's Week. UM.	Amherst
1976	March 8. International Women's Day, two hundred women march in Northampton. (VWU).	Northampton
1976	March. Carmen Hinton: "Women in Chinese Politics" UM.	Amherst
1976	March 11. Helen Rosen: "Women in Cuba and China." UM.	Amherst
1976	March 28. Beginning of Women's Cultural Week. (FAP). UM.	Amherst
1976	March. Dyke Patrol disbands
1976	March. Magical Lesbian Playgroup disbands
1976	March. Nutcracker's Suite opens. Main Street, Northampton.	Northampton
1976	April 2. End of Women's Cultural Week. (FAP). UM.	Amherst
1976	April 8. Lesbian community meeting.
1976	April 11-17. Women's Week. Hampshire College.	Amherst
1976	April 16-18. Women's Weekend with Meg Christian. MHC.	South Hadley
1976	April 21. Adele Rickett: "Women Writers in China." MHC	South Hadley
1976	April 26. Susan Brownmiller at Rape Training conference.(UM and Family Planning)UM. Northampton.	Amherst, Northampton
1976	May 1-2. Women and Violence Conference. (EWC). UM	Amherst
1976	May 14. Women on My Mind." (AFARCE).
1976	May 15. Anti-rape march.	Northampton
1976	May. Mother Jones Press closes and Megaera Press opens as a Lesbian publishing company
1976	June 5-6. Susan Saxe Benefit. (VWU).
1976	June. UM Staff Women's Newsletter. (EWC).	Amherst
1976	June. Rape Crisis Center closes.	Springfield
1976	July 1. Greasy Gorgon Garage, Megaera Press, Women’s Film Coop form the Egg and Marigolths.	Northampton
1976	July 4. Women's Caucus sends sixty women to Philadelphia
1976	July. Greasy Gorgon Garage opens.	Northampton
1976	August 1. Ceres, Inc. (Women's Restaurant Project) purchases property at 68-78 Masonic Street. Renovation begins.	Northampton
1976	September. They Will Know Me By My Teeth, by Elana Dykewomon is published. (Megaera Press).
1976	September. Skills Exchange group.	Northampton
1976	September. First issue of Dyke Doinqs. (LG).
1976	September. Women Concerned with Rape. MHC	South Hadley
1976	September. Artandryl disbands
1976	Fall. Rape counseling; Survival and Welfare counseling. (EWC)
1976	Fall. Springfield Women's Union closes.	Springfield
1976	Fall. Seventy-eight women enroll in Women's Studies. UM.	Amherst
1976	Fall. UM Lesbian Union gets its own space and starts Wednesday women's nights at Farley Lodge.	Amherst
1976	October 2. Autumn Market. (Skills Exchange).	Amherst
1976	October 26. Talent Show to benefit Ceres, Inc. (Common Womon Club).
1976	October 28. Forum on Racism. (VWU).
1976	October 29. Susan Saxe benefit.
1976	October. Lesbians in social services. (LG).
1976	October. Women's Educational Equity Project (WEEP). UM.	Amherst
1976	October. Lesbian drawing support group. (LG).
1976	October. New England Learning Center for Women in Transition (NELCWIT) opens an outreach office.	Greenfield
1976	October. Lesbian Alliance. Smith College	Nothampton
1976	November 3. Autumnal Celebration with Liberty Standing benefit. (Common Womon Club/Ceres, Inc.)
1976	November. Women's Market. (LG/Skills Exchange)
1976	November. Female Offender Program. (YWCA)	Springfield
1976	December 10. Benefit for Assata Shakur and Yvonne Wanrow: Sisters on the Outside. (New Africa House). UM.	Amherst
1976	December. Common Womon Club opens.	Northampton
1976	December. Women's Art Collective begins with groups on art herstory, writing, and drawing.
1977	January 1. New Year's celebration. (Common Womon Club).
1977	January 9. Willie Tyson benefit for Megaera and Common Womon.
1977	January 10-20. Sophia Smith Collection films and lectures. Smith College.	Northampton
1977	January. NELCWIT gets non-profit corporation status.
1977	January. VWU and LG evicted by the landlord.
1977	January. Sweetcoming Bookstore moves to the Egg.
1977	February 1. Benefit dance for Chomo-Uri with Liberty Standing. MHC.	South Hadley
1977	February 4. Contradance with women musicians (later Ladies Chain). (VWU).
1977	February 16. Women and Higher Education Symposium. (EWC/Women's Studies).
1977	March 2-6. Philadelphia Dyketactics holds workshops. MHC	South Hadley
1977	March 5-6. Five College Socialist Feminist Symposium. Hampshire College.	Amherst
1977	March 6-12. International Women's Week with many workshops coordinated by Third World Women. (New Africa House). UM	Amherst
1977	March 7. Robin Morgan benefit reading for Common Womon. Hampshire College.	Amherst
1977	March 7-12. Women's Week. Hampshire College.	Amherst
1977	March 8. International Women's Day march.
1977	March 12. Women's Art Day. Amherst College	Amherst
1977	March. 12 to 1, clerical workers organization. UM.	Amherst
1977	March. VWU moves to space above Common Womon. (Ceres, Inc.).
1977	April 2. National Secretaries Day. "Raises not Roses" demonstration. (12 to 1).
1977	April 15. Nutcracker's Suite-Women's Self Defense/Karate Dojo moves to 68 Masonic Street. Navy is evicted. Northampton.	Northampton
1977	April 18. ‘Tania’ benefit by Little Flags Theater for Che Lumumba School.
1977	April 26-30. -"Waltz for Women's Voices" and "This Brooding Sky." (AFARCE)
1977	April. Seabrook occupation. New Hampshire
1977	Spring. MHC Library suppresses love letters from former president Mary Wooley to Jeanette Marks, an English professor.	South Hadley
1977	May 1-9. Women's Week. UM.	Amherst
1977	May 6-8. Women's Community Weekend.	Northampton
1977	June 5. Massage Day to benefit Women's Karate Camp.
1977	June 26-28. National Training Camp for Women and the Martial Arts. (Nutcracker's Suite). Hampshire College.	Amherst
1977	June 28. Karate/Self Defense demonstration for women of the community. Hampshire College.	Amherst
1977	June. Women's Art Collective disbands
1977	Summer. VWU closes.
1977	Summer. Offense Against Psychosurgery fund.
1977	Summer. International Women's Year regional convention.	Springfield
1977	Summer. Northampton community group on violence. (Gathering Society).	Northampton
1977	August. Ad Hoc Committee Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence
1977	September. MHC Women's Center opens with coalition of Lesbian support group, Women Present Women, and Women's Studies committee.	South Hadley
1977	September. Ninety women enroll in Women's Studies. UM	Amherst
1977	September. Formation of the Feminist Speaker's Bureau.	Northampton
1977	Fall. Last Project SELF workshop series offered. (EWC).
1977	Fall. Five-College Women's Studies Committee.
1977	Fall. Smith Women's Studies Committee.
1977	October. NELCWIT gets $56,000 CETA grant
1977	November 11-12. "Bonnie Keene: Girl Sleuth." (AFARCE).
1977	November 14. Network of Feminist Therapists founding dinner at Common Womon Club.
1977	November. Amherst College offers first Women's Studies major.	Amherst
1977	November. Hampshire County Rape Information and Prevention Program. (Family Planning).	Northampton
1977	November. People's Newstand comes out as Women's Newstand. UM.	Amherst
1977	December 19. Birthday celebration: Common Womon is one year old.
1977	December. Karate and Self Defense demonstration. (Nutcracker's Suite).
1977	December. Olga Broumas reads poetry. MHC	South Hadley
1977	December. Information sharing: Sixty women from four counties on sexual assault and family violence. (Ad Hoc committee).
1977	The Rock is published. (Megaera Press).
1978	Common Womon Club continues.
1978	Women's Radio Show. (Women's Media Project), UMass	Amherst
1978	Council for women in Massachusetts Public Higher Education. This group had a meeting for classified staff at UM.	Amherst
1978	Women's Issues Research group forms SCERA. UMass	Amherst
1978	Necessities/Necesidades began as a task force of 8 women in Hampshire County.	Northampton
1978	Counselor/Advocate program, sponsors an emergency crisis line for victims of violence. EWC. UMass	Amherst
1978	Media Assault Against Women, a WAVAW Slide Show, Rape Counselor/Advocates, EWC. UMass	Amherst
1978	Valley Women's Martial Arts moves to Springfield	Springfield
1978	January. UM Faculty Senate Academic Matters Council approves Women's Studies as an independent major and recommends the program be continued for five more years with its own core curriculum (e.g. become a department).	Amherst
1978	January. Publication of "Directory of Women Counselors and Therapists in Private Practice;" network of women therapists
1978	Feb 21 -Lilith benefit for Common Womon Club
1978	Feb 23 -UM Faculty Senate votes on the Women's Studies recommendation.	Amherst
1978	March 05-11 -Second annual International Women's Week. UMass	Amherst
1978	March 29 'In the Best Interest of their Children' (film) sponsored by SCLA.
1978	April 15-17 -Seven Sisters Lesbian Conference. Radcliffe.
1978	April 27-30 -Women's Weekend and first Feminist Alumnus Reunion. MHC	South Hadley
1978	April. Lesbian Affinity group formed to occupy Seabrook disbanded when the occupation was called off.
1978	May. WOST authorized to search for 2/3 faculty position with specialty in Black and Third World women.	Amherst
1978	May. Women's Occupation of the Mass. Daily Collegian. Publication of Both Feet in the Door by women who had taken over the Collegian Office.
1978	June 18-30 -Support group for women who were sexually abused or sexually assaulted as children.
1978	August. WOST hires Mary Ruth Warner; Jan Raymond becomes 1/3 UM. 1/2 Hampshire faculty.	Amherst
1978	August 09 -South African Women's Day, Deberry School Gym, Springfield sponsored by Committee to End Apartheid, AFSC and EWC
1978	October 04 -Victims of Child Sex Abuse Support Group began, EWC.
1978	November 13 -Karen Silkwood Day, workshops held,EWC.
1978	November 18 -Take Back the Night March	Northampton
1978	Jewish Lesbian Study Group forms and meets regularly through 1981.
1978	Women Against Nuclear Destruction (WAND) forms before Trident launching in CT. to make connections between the violence against the planet and violence against women.
1978	Women's Issues Team organized at SCERA.
1978	Women Against Racism formed, lasted a year; part of Women's Issues Team.
1979	January. Necessities/Necesidades, private donation enables the group to open an office at 17 Holly St., Northampton.	Northampton
1979	February. Valley Women's Voice started with money from Women's Media Network; and later became an RSO group at UM.
1979	February. Support Groups for Women Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Rape Victims,Lesbian Rape Victims, Single Mothers, Lesbians, Black Women, Divorced Women,and General Support Group begin at EWC.
1979	February. First Lesbian Arts and Crafts Show, 19 Hawley St, Northampton. A benefit for the National Lesbian Workforce Exchange Project.
1979	February 16 -Mary Daly speaks on Gyn-Ecology at a reception for the author at Womonfyre Books.
1979	February-April. Series of Academic Feminist Lectures sponsored by SCWRC
1979	March. 3rd Annual International Women's Week organized by International Women's Event Planning Committee, UM.
1979	March. Necessities/Necesidades hired a part-time staff woman.
1979	March 01 -First Issue of Valley Womens's Voice, 8 pages.
1979	Spring. Committee Against Repression formed, concerned with the rising tide of violence between women and people of color, probably disbanded in 1980 or 1981.
1979	April. Busload of students go to Springfield Civic Center for a successful demonstration in support of reproductive freedom	Springfield
1979	June. First Wendell Country Women's Music Festival.	Wendell
1979	June. Publication of Jan Raymond's book, The Transexual Empire.
1979	Fall. Students Against Sexual Harassment (SASH) formed from Women's Issues Team,with the purpose of getting a grievance procedure at UM.	Amherst
1979	September. Hampshire College Sauna "women only hours".
1979	September. Women's Media Project expands to Women's Media Network, attempts to become a resource center for women in media in the Valley.
1979	September 29 -Women's Coalition/Network formed for women's networking - outcome unknown.
1979	October 01 -New Alexandria Lesbian Library(founded 1974) moves Chicago to Crescent Moon Farm outside of Huntington, MA.	Huntington
1979	October 20-27 -Reproductive Rights Week sponsored by Socialist Feminist Collective and Hampshire County Abortion Rights Coalition
1979	October 29 -'Bush Mama' (film) presented by Third World Women's Task Force, UM.	Amherst
1979	November. Necessities/Necesidades joined Mass. Coalition of Battered Women's Service Groups
1979	November. Lesbian Forum formed to deal with lesbian issues, has turned into discussion group.
1979	November. Kaymarion's Art Show
1979	November 04 -The Wanderground reading by the author Sally Gearhart and reception at Womonfyre Books.
1979	December 10-11 -JEB visits Northampton, presents a slide show of lesbian photographs from mid-19th century to the present, reception at Womonfyre Books
1980	Common Womon Club continues.
1980	Lesbian Arts and Crafts Fair.
1980	Group for Radical Older Women in Solidarity (GROWS) begins, EWC
1980	Winter. Necessities/Necesidades restructuring of jobs and goals.
1980	January. Group from Northampton joins N.E. Alliance against Nuclear Weapons and Power which started and met in Hartford. Women came back to Northampton and started Women for Survival group in March of the same year.	Northampton
1980	January 14 -Poor Women's Task Force Workshop, EWC.
1980	February. JEB - Lesbian Images in Photography Slide Show at Unitarian Church,Northampton (also at MHC).	Northampton
1980	February 07 -"Political Repression: An International Perspective", lecture and panel discussion, sponsored by the Third World Women's Task Force.
1980	March. 4th International Women's Week, UM.	Amherst
1980	March 03 -Talk by Jean Grossholtz on rape and battered women at SC.
1980	March 05 -Support Groups for Women under 25 and for Older Non-traditional Women Students, EWC.
1980	March. Opening of works by area women artists at Herter Gallery at UM.	Amherst
1980	March 08 -24 hrs of women's programming on WMUA.
1980	March 10 -Betty Carter performs at UM.	Amherst
1980	March 21-23 -Women and Life on Earth: A Conference on Ecofeminism in the 80's- beginning of New England/New York Network.(UMASS)	Amherst
1980	March 31 -Cora Kaplan speaks on "Pleasure, Feminism and Psychoanalysis", STPEC colloquium at UM.	Amherst
1980	Spring. Women's Issues Team organizes successful campus drive for better lighting and call boxes.
1980	Spring/summer. A number of benefits and raffles for Necessities/Necesidades held,one was a reading by Adrienne Rich.
1980	April 02 -Support Group for Older Women 35+ who were victims of child sexual assault/abuse begins at EWC.
1980	April 18 -Support group for Birthmothers-women who have had a child placed for adop-tion begins at EWC.
1980	April 22 -Barbara Smith and Elly Bulkin speak at UM.	Amherst
1980	April 25 25 -WOST "Teach-in" to educate University community re: two year wait for final approval of program (90 day clock).	Amherst
1980	April 26 -Joan Cocks speaks on "Reason and Emotion", STPEC colloquium at UM.
1980	May. WOST final approval given for department - 2 years after Faculty Senate approval of the program.	Amherst
1980	May 08 -Benefit dance for MORAL at Polish Club.	Northampton
1980	June. 2nd Wendell Country Women's Music Festival	Wendell
1980	June 27 -"A Poetry Reading for Lesbians" Bet Birdfish, director of NALL, and Vernita Gray, Black Lesbian from Chicago,read their poetry at Chrysalis theatre and talk about NALL. Sponsored by Old Lady Blue Jeans.
1980	July. Jill Krolik and Kiriyo Spooner, owners of Womonfyre Books, are threatened with vandalism and rape by a group of 4 white men who invaded the bookstore.
1980	August. Necessities/Necesidades begins 24 hour hotline.
1980	August. Sojourn group home closes and the specialized foster care program is strengthened. Northampton.
1980	August 17 -Lolita LaBlanc, Puerto Rican Nationalist, speaks at Smith Vocational school.	Northampton
1980	Fall. Valley Women's Voice moved to Northampton, 16 pages.	Northampton
1980	Fall. Committee for Equal Rights and Reproductive Freedom (CERRF) formed by Women's Issues Team, SCERA.
1980	Fall.Counselor/Advocate volunteer group for rape/sexual assault victims is set up by the Office of Dean of the College at Smith. Active through 1982/1983 academic year.
1980	Fall. Series of workshops and action training sessions on racism, sexism, ableism,and heterosexism at HCWC.	South Hadley
1980	Fall. SCLA met Sunday nights for discussion on different topics.
1980	September. WOST Fall Colloquium Series, UM.	Amherst
1980	September 01 -New Alexandria Lesbian Library moves from Crescent Moon Star Farm in Huntington, MA to Worthington, MA.	Worthington
1980	September 11 -Rally and Vigil for Seta Rampersad held at Hampshire County Courthouse,Northampton.	Northampton
1980	September 14 -Bettina Aptheker speaks at UM.	Amherst
1980	September 21 -Establishment of Women Organizing for Occupational Safety and Health (WOOSH).
1980	September 23 -Annette Kuhn,co-author of Feminism and Materialism,speaks at UM.	Amherst
1980	October 02 -Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) conference on feminist theory at Smith.	Northampton
1980	October 03 -Margie Adam performs at the Iron Horse.	Northampton
1980	October 04 -Randy Albelda speaks on "Black and White Women Workers", WOST colloquium at UM.	Amherst
1980	October 10 -Support groups begin for adult women who have been sexually assaulted/abused as children and for victims of rape or domestic violence at EWC.	Amherst
1980	October 15 -Working Women's Task Force formed, EWC.	Amherst
1980	October 18 -Free Drop-In Childcare begins at EWC.	Amherst
1980	October 24 -Holly Near concert.
1980	November. Necessities/Necesidades Retreat and beginning of organizational restructuring due to staff burn out.
1980	November 08 -Molly Baldwin and Debbie Wald speak on "Mothers in Prison", WOST colloquium at UM.	Amherst
1980	November 14 -Workshop on institutional racism sponsored by GALA.
1980	November 24 -Women in Arms film shown, followed by talk/presentation with producer at UM	Amherst
1980	December. “Planning on Working?" a workshop, EWC.	Amherst
1980	December. EWC Newsletter started again after not publishing for a few years.	Amherst
1981	January. Film Series put on by Women for Survival and Casa Latina.
1981	January. Hampshire College women organized to get a non-student coordinator for the Women's Center.	Amherst
1981	February. WOST Spring Colloquium Series.	Amherst
1981	February. Necessities/Necesidades gets a new contract with the Department of Social Services for $37,000. Hired more staff.
1981	February 08 -WOST Union council sponsors a Holly Near concert, UM.	Amherst
1981	February 10 -'Working for your life' film shown, EWC.	Amherst
1981	February 11 -Third World Women's Task Force workshop, "Healing Ourselves or Yoga in Survival", EWC.	Amherst
1981	March. 5th International Women's Week, UM.	Amherst
1981	Spring/Summer. Necessities/Necesidades developed an interim Board of Directors which led to a permanent Board of Directors.
1981	April 24 -Jewish Lesbian Pesach Seder over 50 lesbians attend.
1981	April 25 -Committee on Non-Intervention in El Salvador march in Northampton.	Northampton
1981	April. Linda Tillery and Mary Watkins perform at the Polish Club.
1981	April 30 -Feminist Works, a group of women who do political support work, comes into official existence.
1981	May 07 -Pornography panel at SC.	Northampton
1981	May 09 -Mother's Day march sponsored by Women for Disarmament (now Women for Survival).
1981	June. 3rd Wendell Country Women's Music Festival.	Wendell
1981	August 01 -New Alexandria Lesbian Library moves to Leeds, MA; Northampton-Amherst work group forms.
1981	September. Black Studies/Women's Studies Faculty Development project awarded 2 year grant, WOST	Amherst
1981	September. WOST Fall Colloquium Series, UM.	Amherst
1981	September. Women's Literary Magazine Jane Doe established at HCWC.
1981	September 11 -"Pro-Choice Party", benefit to stop the HLA, sponsored by Feminist Works
1981	October. First Incest Survivor's Therapy Group.
1981	October. Clear policy on sexual harassment of employees and students was formed by the Committee on Committees at Smith College.	Northampton
1981	October 03 -CERRF organizes a day in remembrance of Rosie Jimenez. She died in 1977, the first known victim cut off from medicaid funding for abortions.
1981	October 15 -ISIS sponsors a speak-out on abortion.
1981	October 21 -Toni Cade Bambara speaks at Smith College, reading from her short story collection,Gorilla,My Love,sponsored by Afro-American Studies at Smith,Black Studies at Amherst College, and WomonfyreBooks.	Northampton
1981	November. Sojourn restructures Board; moves into a more hierarchical form of management.
1981	November 02 -"Conditions of Life for Soviet Women" a lecture by Tatyana Momonova sponsored by WOST.	Amherst
1981	November 06-07 -"Consciousness and Community" conference sponsored by Smith Project on Women and Social Change.	Northampton
1981	November 15 -Birthmothers resumed their regular meetings, EWC.
1981	November 16 -Women coming out as lesbians support group, EWC.
1981	November 21 -Benefit dance for Women in Struggle conference, sponsored by Women's Committee of NCOCA.
1981	November 3 to December 8. Six lunchtime workshops for working women, EWC.
1981	December 02-03 -CERRF organizes reproductive rights awareness days "Outlaw Sterilization Abuse not Abortion", UM.
1981	December. 04 -Wallflower Order performs at Bowker Auditorium, UM.
1981	December 05 -Women in Struggle Conference.
1982	Mary Wentworth decides to run for Silvio Conte's seat in the House of Representatives.
1982	Common Womon closes
1982	January "Jane Doe" first published, HCWC	Amherst
1982	January. La Mix formed, prior to this they had worked together without a name At Rahars for six weeks. La Mix started having women's dances at Hangar One. Amherst.
1982	January. Valley Women's Chorus began.
1982	February. Third World Lesbian Gathering at HC.	Amherst
1982	February 14 -Five College Lesbian meeting, HCWC. 16 -Susan Sontag speaks at UM.	Amherst
1982	February 17 -First meeting of GALA (Gay and Lesbian Activists), potluck with 15 people.
1982	February 23 -Career/Life planning support group, EWC.	Amherst
1982	February 27 -"Reaganomics and Women" workshop, sponsored by the Working Women's Task Force, EWC.	Amherst
1982	February. Dance at Davis,music by Faye.sponsored by SCLA, Women in Struggle,and Northampton Committee on El Salvador.
1982	February 28 -'Word is Out film' sponsored by SCLA.	Northampton
1982	March. Support groups:Assertiveness,Women Abused as Children, Survivors of Rape/Sexual Assault, and Battered Women at the EWC.	Amherst
1982	March. 'The Union Makes Us Strong' A labor film festival, EWC.	Amherst
1982	March 06 -"Who's got your 41 cents?:Women and The Wage Gap" workshop, sponsored by the Working Women's Task Force, EWC.	Amherst
1982	March 12 -Movement and Massage Workshop, EWC.	Amherst
1982	March 13 -Alix Dobkin in concert sponsored by SCWRC.	Northampton
1982	March 14 -Lesbian Film Series sponsored by SCLA, Variations, and Valley Independent Cinema as a fundraiser for Variations.	Northampton
1982	March- June. Necessities/Necesidades went from six part-time paid women to three full-time paid staff.The Board of Directors was developed and from that a modified collective structure was formed.
1982	Spring. First-ever Lesbian and Gay Pride March/Rally in Northampton,sponsored by GALA.	Northampton
1982	Spring. Five College Third World Feminist-Lesbian group formed.
1982	Spring. Committee Against Sexual and Racial Assaults (CASARA) is formed. Helped or-ganize escort service at UM and published a survey on racism and sexism on campus, Women's Issues Team of SCERA.
1982	Spring. Abortion peer counseling support network begins, HCWC.	Amherst
1982	Spring. Support group is formed for resistance at Big Mountain, HCWC.	AMherst
1982	April. Third incest Survivors Therapy Group, for lesbians only.
1982	April. Smith administration tried to close Hover House but were not allowed by the Trustees because they didn't give the current residents warning that they would close the house.	Northampton
1982	April 04 -Cris Williamson in concert at J.M. Greene, sponsored by Variations and SCWRC.
1982	April 14 -Lesbians and the Law Forum, SCWRC. 14,21,28,and May 5	Northampton
1982	April. Career Information Sessions, sponsored by the Working Women's Task Force at the EWC.	Amherst
1982	April 21 -"Find out what's eating you" introductory workshop on women and body issues at the EWC.	Amherst
1982	April 29 -CERRF organized "rock and rally for our rights". An afternoon devoted to defending our civil rights and sexual freedom.
1982	May 14 -Nice Jewish Girls , authors reception with Gloria Greenfield, Evelyn Beck and Adrienne Rich at Womonfyre Books.
1982	May 15 -First Lesbian and Gay Pride March/Rally, sponsored by GALA.
1982	June. Support groups:Exploring Sexual Preference, Discussing Motherhood,Women and Stress, and Commonalities of Women, sponsored by the EWC.	Amherst
1982	June 07 -Support group:Women who have experienced sexual assault or rape, 10 weeks at the EWC.	Amherst
1982	June 16 -The Common Womon Club buildings on Masonic Street are sold.
1982	June 29 -"Speaking about the Unspeakable" workshop on the myths about rape and the community's role and response to sexual violence.Sponsored by the EWC and Isis.	Amherst
1982	Summer. EWC changed from a collective to a hierarchy.
1982	Summer. Necessities/Necesidades changes from offering individual therapy to a support group.
1982	July.Valley Women's Martial Arts moves back to Northampton. Classes held outside and at Chrysalis theatre.	Northampton
1982	July 01-05 -Womonfyre Books moves from Masonic St. to Center St. in Northampton.	Northampton
1982	July 17 -CERRF organizes four van loads of students to go to Cherry Hill, N.J. for reproductive rights demonstration.
1982	August 01 -"A Woman's Workshop: For Jewish Lesbians and Their Friends" draws over 100 lesbians, SC.
1982	September. 4th Wendell Country Women's Music Festival. 400-500 women attend.	Wendell
1982	September. Hampshire College fully funds both the Women's Center and the Counselor/Advocate program after a woman was raped on campus.	Amherst
1982	September. WOST Fall Colloquium Series, UM.	Amherst
1982	September 15 -'Our Lives on the Line' videotape on Black women and abortion. Film and discussion, sponsored by Isis and the Third World Women's Task Force/EWC.	Amherst
1982	September 19 -Open house for lesbian community at New Alexandria Lesbian Library in Leeds.
1982	September 25 -"Dyke Dance" at HC sponsored by NALL, a benefit to make NALL wheelchair- accessible.
1982	September. "Old Lady Blue Jeans" a reading by Elana Dykewomon for Lesbians and girl children only at SC.
1982	September 29 -"Anti-Racism CR" for GALA members at SC.	Northampton
1982	Fall. Four women buy production equipment from New Roots to form a designer and artist cooperative; they were unsuccessful as such and became the business collective, North Valley Typesetting and Graphics in Greenfield.	Greenfield
1982	Fall. Third World Women in Liberation Struggles, lunchtime film series, sponsored by Third World Women's Task Force, EWC.	Amherst
1982	Fall. Jewish Women's study group, HCWC.
1982	Fall. Rape Task Force conducts rape awareness workshops at UM and Amherst College dorms,sponsored by Educator/Advocates at the EWC.
1982	Academic year. Hampshire Women's Center and Lesbian Alliance Progressive Film Series.
1982	October. Necessities/Necesidades developed a structured volunteer program to work on the hotline.
1982	October. Valley Women's Martial Arts gets Dojo in Thornes. October 03 -CERRF organized annual day in remembrance of Rosie Jimenez.
1982	October 04 -Lesbian Incest Survivors Therapy Group forms in Northampton.	Northampton
1982	October 09 -Lesbian Rape alert meeting in Northampton, Thornes Mkt. after 2 lesbians are raped in Northampton and another woman in 7 weeks.About 200 women attended.	Northampton
1982	October 23 -Lesbian Dance and Theater Performance, Thornes Mkt, Northampton.	Northampton
1982	November. Debbie Fier's first album, "In Your Hands" is released.
1982	November. The Sexual Harassment policy is finalized and goes into effect. SASH stops meeting.
1982	November 06 -Anti-KKK march, sponsored by GALA.
1982	November 14 -Debbie Fier Concert, celebrating her new album, sponsored by Variations at Hotel Northampton.	Northampton
1982	November 30 -Marilyn Frye,"On being white: toward a feminist understanding of race supremacy",sponsored by SCLA and Student Lecture Committee.
1982	December. Trivia, A Journal of Ideas was founded. A magazine of feminist theory and scholarship.
1982	December 03 -"Women and Children under Apartheid", sponsored by the Third World Women's Task Force and the Center for Racial Studies.
1982	December 08 -Threatening phone calls made to NALL. death threats to Bet Birdfish, NALL director.
1982	December."Parthenogenesis: The nature of female creativity", by Anne G. Delenbaugh. Benefit for Trivia, cosponsored by SCWRC.
1982	December 18 -Threatening phone calls made to two lesbians in Northampton about NALL.	Northampton
1982	December 19 -"Lesbian Speakout on Addictions" at Smith College sponsored by SCLA and Lesbians Dealing with Addictions.	Northampton
1982	December 23 -First Lesbian Community Meeting on threats to NALL and the Community,Thornes, Northampton.	Northampton
1983	January. Sojourn starts a comprehensive program for pregnant and parenting teens;began an identified vocational project within the agency with a full-time counselor.
1983	January. Feminists Against Militarism (FAM), a study/activist group formed at HC.
1983	January. GALA initiates coalition to fight for a broad-based Anti-Discrimination ordinance in Northampton.	Northampton
1983	January 03 -More threatening calls made to NALL.
1983	January 09 -Lesbian Community Meeting about the Lesbian Foundation at SC.
1983	January 12 -2nd Lesbian Community Meeting on threats to NALL, Valley Women's Martial Arts Dojo, Thornes Mkt, Northampton.	Northampton
1983	January 13 -Written notes, threatening NALL and community as a group, left at Womonfyre Books in Northampton."The paper is right. Homosexual people must be eradicated. S.H.U.N.-Stop Homosexual Unity Now" and 'N.A.L.L. will never ex-ist, Gays must be persecuted".("the paper" refers to an editorial by Joseph Sobran published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette which was viciously anti-gay).
1983	January 19 -The Daily Hampshire Gazette publishes first article ever on Womonfyre Books, under the headline "A Women's Bookstore Gains 'Legitimacy'".
1983	January 20 -3rd Lesbian Community Meeting on threats to NALL and community, Valley Women's Martial Arts Dojo, Thornes Mkt, Northampton.	Northampton
1983	January 22 -A phone call to a lesbian by an unidentified male voice: "What's going on in the meetings?"
1983	January 24 -Betsy Rose and Cathy Winter perform at Iron Horse. Another call(s): "What's going on in the meetings?" different male voice.
1983	January 26 -Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) started first Western Mass. Chapter.
1983	January 27 -4th Lesbian Community Meeting on threats to community, Valley Women's Martial Arts Dojo, Thornes.
1983	January 29 -A long letter from S.H.U.N. was left at Womonfyre Books threatening the store, GALA, NALL and the SCLA, saying gays should be "eradicated", and threatening to burn the bookstore down.
1983	January 30 –Small community meeting to discuss harassment and Mayor's meeting,Northampton. January/February
1983	January. 'Blood Sucking Freaks:One hundred ways torture a woman' film cancelled because of protests at Hampshire Mall in Hadley.
1983	January. GALA sponsors a workshop series on Racism and Anti-Semitism for Lesbians and Gay Men.
1983	February. Lesbian Union at UM grows, begins Thursday night rap groups.	Amherst
1983	February 02 -Small meeting of lesbians and PVPGA gay men on the Mayor's meeting.
1983	February 03 -5th Lesbian Community Meeting on threats to community, Mayor's meeting, and Vigil/Protest at Neilson Library, SC	Northampton
1983	February 04 -Steering Committee meeting on Vigil outside Mayor's meeting at NALL, Leeds.
1983	February 08 -Mayor's meeting with Lesbian/Gay Community and Vigil Demonstration about 300 lesbians, gays and supporters, Northampton.	Northampton
1983	February 10 -5th Lesbian Community Meeting on threats, SC.	Northampton
1983	February 17 -"The Social Construction of Women's Sickness", a lecture by Denise Connors,a benefit for TRIVIA, cosponsored by SCWRC.
1983	February 20 -"I Love the Library" support party in Leeds for NALL.
1983	February 27 -Sweet Honey in the Rock performs at Smith sponsored by SCWRC and Variations.	Northampton
1983	February 28 -"Wimmin on the left: Views on Social Change" a panel sponsored by SCWRC.
1983	March. 6th International Women's Week at UM.	Amherst
1983	March. First WOST Faculty tenured - Janice Raymond
1983	March. Director of WOST, Katherine Portugues made "tenure track".	Amherst
1983	March. Third Incest Survivors Therapy Group for Lesbians only.
1983	March 04 -GALA benefit dance.
1983	March 07 -Juliet Mitchell speaks at Hampshire College.	Amherst
1983	March 11 -"Pitfalls in Paradise" produced by Ad Hoc Women Productions.
1983	March 13 -"Considering Art and Class" workshop sponsored by SCLA.
1983	March 14 -A threat is received on a tape machine at a local business threatening to kill, first to the coordinator of NALL, then to KiriyoSpooner, and third to burn Womonfyre Books. The message is received on Saturday and they say that the store will be burned on Tuesday. The store is under 24 hour surveillance for the next 3 days, and for the 2 Tuesdays thereafter.
1983	Spring. Survival and Visions conference planning committee meeting (conference to be held October 1984) HCWC.
1983	April. Black Studies/Women's Studies Conference at UM.
1983	April 03 -Forum on Lesbian Studies held at SC by SCLA.
1983	April 05 -More threats of violence at the march on May 14. Northampton
1983	April 06 -Discussion/talk for women by Jewish women at UM.
1983	April 08-09 and 15-16: GALA has two weekends of films on gays and lesbians.
1983	April 09 -Womyn's Dance at Field House sponsored by SCLA.
1983	April 12 -"Health Effects of Office Automation" workshop given by Working Woman's Task Force and Labor Relations Center as part of the "Women And Office Automation in the 80's" conference at UM.
1983	April 13 -SHUN threat against the march yelled on street at two lesbians in Northampton.	Northampton
1983	April 18 -Talk on Women and the Holocaust at Smith.	Northampton
1983	April 19 -Amherst march against rape organized by Sisters in Health and Men Against Violence Against Women, and EWC.
1983	April 19- "New Technology: Whose Progress?" workshop given by Working Women's Task Force and Labor Relations Center as part of the "Women And Office Automation in the 80's" conference at UM.
1983	April 23 -Kate Clinton, a feminist humorist gives a benefit performance for TRIVIA cosponsored by the Mount Holyoke Women's Center and TRIVIA.
1983	April 23 -Lesbian Humor Night at Hampshire College Red Barn.	Amherst
1983	April 26 -"Job Stress in the Office" workshop given by Working Women's Task Force and Labor Relations Center as part of the "Women And Office Automation in the 80's" conference at UM.	Amherst
1983	April 26-5/1: Latin American Week, "Women in Latin America", talk by Sonia Nieto, film La Operation, with talk by Director Anna Maria Garcia, at UM.	Amherst
1983	April 29 -"Smith is for Lovers" day held at SC sponsored by SCLA.	Northampton
1983	April/May. Picket against pornography conducted at Augie's Tobacco Shop in Amherst center coming out of the previous march on rape.	Amherst
1983	May 03-05 -Phone threats against the march left on VWV's answering machine from SHUN.
1983	May 06-07 -"Moving On" a seminar for Black Women on entering or re-enetering profes-sional positions, sponsored by EWC.	Amherst
1983	May 07 -Mother's Day march, sponsored by Women for Survival.
1983	May 09 -(week)Phone threats against the march left on GALA's answering machine from SHUN.
1983	May 14-15 -Heramedia, Lesbian Video Project from NYC, comes to Northampton to film Lesbian & Gay Liberation March, victims of harassment (Kiriyo Spooner, Bet Birdfish, Kim Christiansen) on location in Leeds at NALL & at Womonfyre Books for project on Lesbians & violence.	Northampton
1983	May 14 -2nd Annual Lesbian and Gay Liberation March, over 2,000 march, Northampton.	Northampton
1983	May 17 –'What could You do with a nickel?' film on 200 Black and Latina women in South Bronx and 'Not A Love Story' film concerning pornography, shown at UM sponsored by EWC and Third World Women's Task Force.	Amherst
1983	May 19 -"Workplace hustle: Sexual harassment on the job" a workshop sponsored by CLUW and WOOSH.
1983	May 19 - Speak out on Sexual Harassment in Northampton.	Northampton
1983	May 28 -The bookstore, Womonfyre, gets egged. It gets egged again on May 29, July 8, October, December 27, January 29, 1984, and April 23, 1984.
1983	Summer/Fall. Women's Film Festival sponsored by Women's Leadership Project at UM.	Amherst
1983	July Necessities/Necesidades gets increased funding from Dept. of Social Services, as well as monies from Hampshire County, City of Northampton, and a private grant from Chicago Resource Center.
1983	July 22 -SHUN call to VWV threatens all lesbian and gay groups with violence.
1983	July Daily Hampshire Gazette runs its 4-part series on lesbians.
1983	August. Jill Krolik of Womonfyre Books sets up a trap for the phone harasser by heavily advertising a reading by Becky Birtha scheduled for August 5 at the store. The ads list Jills home phone as the information number. The District Attorney's office provides a telephone answering machine, and Jil stays at home to note the time of phone calls. Approximately 35 phone calls from a group of local kids are received. Three phone calls from SHUN are also received on July 30. Robert Kremensky is arrested August 5 for those calls.
1983	August/September. SC administration attempts to gain control over contents of SCLA's workshops because of pressure from Alumni and Trustees to deal with the "Lesbian Problem".	Northampton
1983	September. WOST has staff of director, faculty member, two full-time professional staff and a part-time secretary.	Amherst
1983	September. 01 -New Alexandria Lesbian Library moves to Northampton.	Northampton
1983	Fall. CASARA disbands.
1983	Fall. Women's Leadership Project funded for resource center. Forms a women's programming network, UM.	Amherst
1983	Fall. Student Sexual Harassment Education Project started to make people aware of policy and to help them use it, sponsored by Women's Issues Team and SCERA.
1983	Fall. FBI Grand Jury Community Education Coalition started in Northampton.	Northampton
1983	October. Thirteenth Moon, a witch supply store opens at 56 Main St in Northampton.	Northampton
1983	October 02 -"Lesbians and Health", a workshop sponsored by SCLA at SC.	Northampton
1983	October 03 -CERRF organized 3rd annual day in remembrance of Rosie Jimenez.
1983	October 03 -Eight "Women of Faith" protest Trident submarines by breaking into Quonset Pt. Shipyard and defacing property. Police arrest Frances Crowe, 64, of Northampton. A judge sentences her to six months in a state facility for her involvement. [Valley Women's Voice February 1984: no page.]
1983	October 17 -Support group for unemployed and underemployed women begins at EWC.	Amherst
1983	October 18 -Support group for women with eating problems begins at EWC.	Amherst
1983	October 18 - Kremensky is convicted of violating the civil rights of 3 lesbians and is sentenced to one year in jail (with all but 3 months suspended). This is the first jail sentence under the state civil rights law for a violation of a gay person's civil rights.
1983	October 19 -Conference/Support group for women involved in any stage of the process of taking on a lesbian identity, EWC.	Amherst
1983	October 20 -Support group for Battered Lesbians begins at EWC.	Amherst
1983	October 22 -"The Sixties Speak to the Eighties" conference sponsored by WOST and STPEC at UM.	Amherst
1983	November. Hangar One closes.	Northampton
1983	November 03 -Support group for Women in the Trades begins at EWC.	Amherst
1983	November. Lesbian Health Workshop, EWC.	Amherst
1983	November 09 -"Look me in the eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism", a lecture by Barbara Mcdonald, benefit for TRIVIA cosponsored by SCWRC.	Northampton
1983	November 19 -"Women Working for Change: Using the Legislation and Building Coalitions"sponsored by Center for Reflective Action, Holyoke.	Holyoke
1983	November 30 -"Third World Women and Feminism", a lecture by Gloria Joseph sponsored by Third World Women's Task Force.
1983	December. La Mix started having dances at Justin Ryan's, has three dances.	Amherst
1983	December. Lesbian Union at UM loses its office space and is offered a small storage space instead. LU wages a successful fight for space resulting in an office in the Student Union Bldg, UM.	Amherst
1983	December. Necessities/Necesidades opens a shelter.
1983	December. Community Forum and Informational Session held on the Yvette Henry case.
1984	January. GLISS (Gay/Lesbian Informational Support Services of Springfield) opens with Lesbian/Gay Switchboard.
1984	February. Cindy Foster of Mothers Uniting for the Sake of Children calls for state action against deadbeat dads.
1984	February. GALA begins weekly meetings to discuss march and rally in May
1984	February. New Alexandria Lesbian Library operating in Florence.	Florence
1984	February 2. European Women's Disarmament Delegation speaks at Hampshire College.	Amherst
1984	February 8. Betty Friedan speaks at UMass.	Amherst
1984	March. Permit for 3rd Annual Lesbian and Gay Pride March in Northampton denied for a Saturday March (May 12) by city hall.	Northampton
1984	March. La Mix Dances start at Poor Richard's in Amherst.	Amherst
1984	March. 7th International Women's Week, UM.	Amherst
1984	March. Jewish Women Writers Panel, UM.	Amherst
1984	March. An unidentified attacker rapes a Northampton lesbian	Northampton
1984	March. Permit denied for GALA march in Northampton.	Northampton
1984	March. Sister Mildred Marenge comes to male dominated Newman Center as first nun.	Amherst
1984	March. Smith students protest the closing of Hover House, a lesbian dorm.	Northampton
1984	March. Women organize to free Frances Crowe.
1984	March 2. Starhawk preaches spirituality at Smith.	Northampton
1984	March 6. -"Revolt of the Symbols: Philosophy in a Feminist Key", a lecture by Emily Erwin Culpepper, a benefit for TRIVIA, cosponsored by SCWRC	Northampton
1984	March 6-30. Lesbians stage sit-in and protest march at Smith College after Smith announces the closing of Hover House, a lesbian dorm. Sit-in was in President Conway's office, march outside.	Northampton
1984	March 7-10. International Women's event at UMass	Amherst
1984	March 10. "The Power of Black Love,Part I" workshop for Black men and women, EWC	Amherst
1984	March 21. Kaymarion begins Spring Studio in Attic at NALL and Herstory Exhibit.
1984	March 27-April 1. Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week at UM; Barbara Gittings speaks as keynote,JEB (Joan E. Biren) shows lesbian slide show; many local lesbians do workshops.	Amherst
1984	March 28. JANE, a 5 college reproductive rights network, organizes and holds first successful campaign to get students to go to Boston and "Raise your voices for choice."
1984	March 30. Ferron and Kate Clinton perform, sponsored by Crescendo Productions and SCWRC.	Northampton
1984	Spring. Campus Campaign on Pornography received national media coverage, organized by Women's Issues Team of SCERA.
1984	April. 4th Incest Survivors Therapy Group for Lesbians only.
1984	April. Kaymarion holds series of "storytelling" meetings for Lesbians at NALL as she gathers more pieces of Lesbian Herstory in the Valley and updates her Herstory slideshow.
1984	April 1. After incidents of violence and robbery in the store at 56 Main, 13th Moon moves to private residence.
1984	April 11. -"Budgeting: Basic Concepts for 3rd World Administrators", a workshop sponsored by Third World Women's Task Force
1984	April 28. -"Breaking the Connection between Violence and Sex: The Case Against Pornography." a conference at UM.	Amherst
1984	April 28. Anti-Pornography Conference held at UMass.	Amherst
1984	April. -"The Power of Black Love, Part II", workshop for black men and women, EWC	Amherst
1984	May. GALA wins appeal for march permit. Date set for May 12
1984	May. Shirley Chisholm, black congresswoman, speaks at Hampshire.	Amherst
1984	May. UMass student Yvette Henry sues police and university officials for $13 million, claiming police illegally searched her room and placed her under unlawful arrest because of her race.	Amherst
1984	May. Smith College administration closes Hover House, Lesbian dormitory.	Northampton
1984	May. Necessities/Necesidades increases staff from 3 to 4 full-time paid positions.
1984	May. Lesbians finish building wheelchair ramp at NALL House, made possible from community fundraising.
1984	May 2. Reproductive Rights Awareness Day sponsored by CERRF at UM	Amherst
1984	May 3. -"Jewish Women: Three Perspectives", a panel sponsored by Jewish Feminist Group at UM	Amherst
1984	May 3. Susan Schechter speaks at UMass about battered women.	Amherst
1984	May 4. Dance held for Contra Los Contra to benefit Women's Peace Agenda.
1984	May 5. Mother's Day Peace Walk in Northampton.	Northampton
1984	May 5. "Doubting Our Competence: Women's Image of Work and Self", a workshop sponsored by EWC and Working Women's Program.
1984	May 5-6. Heramedia, Lesbian Video Project from NYC, does follow-up filming & interviewing on harassment. Videotape to be distributed nationally to Lesbian groups & for cable TV. Bet Birdfish, Kiriyo Spooner, and Kim Christiansen are filmed at NALL in Northampton Library House. They show tape segments of other Lesbian victims of violence, to be included in the project: Deb Edel & Joan Nestle of Lesbian Herstory Archives (NYC), Barbara Smith and Cherrie Moraga (INC), and "Foxy Lady" on police violence in the bars (NYC).
1984	May 12. Gay and Lesbian Liberation March, "We who believe in Freedom cannot rest until it comes", Northampton.	Northampton
1984	May 12. GALA Dance at Amherst College, a benefit for The Center for Popular Economics.	Amherst
1984	May 13. Kaymarion shows updated slideshow, "Living in the Valley Lesbian Community: 1968-84" at- NALL.
1984	May 31. International Archiving Conference at Smith College includes sessions on Third World Archives and also "Documenting Lesbian Herstory" session by NYC's Lesbian Herstory Archives.	Northampton
1984	June. EWC announces WAGES program to support female graduate students	Amherst
1984	June 1-3. 5th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,at Smith College, includes more than 15 Lesbian panels and a 24-hour Lesbian caucus room on campus.NALL shows new slideshow, "The New Alexandria Lesbian Library: The First Ten Years." Kaymarion shows updated slideshow, "Living in the Valley Lesbian community: 1968-84. Lesbian poets read, Debbie Fier performs her music, etc.	Northampton
1984	June 23. Women in Trade Conference at UMass.	Amherst
1984	September. Necessities moves to 16 Center St. in Northampton.	Northampton
1984	September. Theater Too calls for area women interested in theater.
1984	September 26. Marjorie Lansing speaks at UMass about gender gap.	Amherst
1984	October. Geraldine Ferraro speaks to 20,000 at UMass.	Amherst
1984	October. Maggie Kuhn of the Grey Panthers speaks about her struggle
1984	October 3. 5th Women in Business Conference at Holyoke Community College.	Holyoke
1984	October 4. Sonia Johnson speaks at UMass.	Amherst
1984	October 18-19. Valley women (Ellen Shub, Chris Mangan, Sheri Simonton) attend "Not in Our Name" rally and march in NYC.
1984	December 9. Lesbians Considering Children forum at Smith.	Northampton
1985	January. 50 demonstrators protest Reagan's inauguration (including Valley women Laura Wenk, Jamie Tessler, Peggy Shannon, Jennifer McConnell, Kathy Swayze).
1985	February. Janet Feldman and Lore Wintergreen reestablish Community Emergency Fund, a fund for local residents in need.
1985	February. UMass Women's Studies program celebrates its 10th anniversary.	Amherst
1985	February. Valley Women’s Voice publishes a lesbian battering survey.
1985	March 5-8. International Women's Week planning committee holds march in Amherst	Amherst
1985	March 30. Pioneer Valley War Tax Resistance organizes workshop in Amherst.	Amherst
1985	April. Franklin County Women's Issues Network opens; addresses alcohol and drug use, day care, and legislative issues.
1985	April. Vivienne Mann and Jenny Hein announce the dissolution of "Crescendo Productions," a women-friendly, Valley-based production company.
1985	April 19. -"Take Back the Night" rally and march from UMass to Amherst Commons.	Amherst
1985	April 25. Third World Women's Program at EWC holds panel about sterilization abuse in the Third World.	Amherst
1985	May. Judith Loischild and Chris Casey write in support of a senate bill that would define midwifery and legalize home births in Massachusetts.
1985	May. Lesbian/Gay Awareness Week at UMass, with a march on May 4.	Amherst
1985	May 7. 150 people blockade the Federal Building in Springfield to protest Reagan's Trade Embargo on Nicaragua. Valley participants included photographer Jane Cleland.
1985	May 21. Womonfyre Books in Northampton receives bomb threat and is evacuated	Northampton
1985	July. International Women's Conference in Nairobi; Valley woman Kandi Thompson participates.	Nairobi
1985	July 6. Unnamed Valley women participate in a Day of Focus in Seneca Falls.	Seneca Falls
1985	October 19. Necessities organizes a 5-mile moveathon to aid battered women.
1985	October 19-20. Gay/Lesbian Conference at Hampshire College.	Amherst
1985	November. Audre Lorde reads poetry at Amherst College.	Amherst
1985	November 1-3. 1st Nursing Conference on Violence Against Women held at UMass	Amherst
1985	December. Lesbian Network of Central Massachusetts looking for new members
1986	January. Workers at Lord Jeffery Amherst Inn strike for higher wages and better job security.	Amherst
1986	February. Meanette Vermes urges women to protest the Massachusetts House of Representatives, which voted to deny women abortion costs and counseling.
1986	February. UMass addresses LGB concerns on campus by establishing a program with staff and funding. Establishes a Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week in April.	Amherst
1986	February. 15 - 100 people from the Valley attend a March Against Racism in Philadelphia.	Philadelphia
1986	March 1. Valley women, including Phyllis Rodin, Michelle Goodwin, Elisabeth Kozenlewsky, and Bee Ring, participate in a march from LA to DC for nuclear disarmament.
1986	March 3. International Women's Day celebrated at UMass.	Amherst
1986	March. Valley Women’s Voice protests the naming of a male "Women's Issues" editor at UMass' Collegian.	Amherst
1986	March. HAVEN offers two-day training for LGB community members who want to stop hate crimes.
1986	March 9. 150 valley people attend NOW pro-choice march in DC.	Washington, DC
1986	April 5-13. Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week at UMass.	Amherst
1986	April. Mt. Holyoke hosts a women's peace encampment.	South Hadley
1986	April. Rally held at the Student Union. Student Paul Cameron speaks against gays and a fistfight ensues.	Amherst
1986	May. Educators/Advocates from the EWC organize successful petition against the Card Gallery in Hadley, which agrees to stop selling offensive cards.	Hadley
1986	May 3. Valley women attend a Lesbian and Children's Conference at Simmons College.	Boston
1986	October. UMass SGA votes to deny childcare to 11,000. Valley Women’s Voice urges action.	Amherst
1987	February. Student Joyce Barry reopens Lesbian Union at UMass.	Amherst
1987	February 17. Women's Leadership Project at UMass meets to discuss reorganization.	Amherst
1987	February 19. June Jordan speaks at UMass about racism in the 80s.	Amherst
1987	February 21. Women Elders' Empowerment Network petitions Northampton to address violence and discrimination against elders in the community.	Northampton
1987	March. Angela Davis speaks at UMass about racism.	Amherst
1987	March. Audre Lorde speaks at UMass.	Amherst
1987	March. Seven Sisters Conference at Smith. Keynote speaker: Johnella Butler from Smith.	Northampton
1987	April 11. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Speakers' Bureau reactivates at UMass.	Amherst
1987	May 2. Pioneer Valley Lesbian and Gay Liberation march held in Northampton.	Northampton
1987	June 5. Come-out staged at the Hampshire Mall. (Sponsor: Minor Disturbances, local women’s affinity group.)	Hadley
1987	October 10. 18 people from UMass march on Washington for LGB rights.	Amherst
1988	February. Approximately 65 Valley women sign a petition supporting Jesse Jackson for president in 1988.
1988	February. UMass women students reorganize Valley Women’s Voice.	Amherst
1988	February 12. 150 protesters take over New Africa House to address issues of racism. Female residents counter-protest against the movement's sexism.	Amherst
1988	February 14. Sonia Sanchez, poet and political activist, speaks at UMass.	Amherst
1988	March 1. Karen Thompson speaks at UMass about sexism and lesbianism.	Amherst
1988	April. National Organization of Lesbian and Gay Scientists organize chapter in the Valley
1988	April 19-24. LGB Awareness Week at UMass	Amherst
1988	April 21. "Take Back the Night" rally.
1988	April 29. 200 women attend 2nd National Conference on Women and the Military. Valley woman Kaymarion Raymond attends and reports in Valley Women’s Voice.
1988	May. Anti-male, anti-religion graffiti found in several area churches. Many feminists write to Valley Women’s Voice to express their disapproval.
1988	May 7. Sexual Assault Awareness Week. "Take Back the Night" march held in Greenfield.	Greenfield
1988	May 14. Lesbian and Gay Liberation March in Northampton, attendance: 1,500-2,000.	Northampton
1988	June 14-19. Area booksellers Rose Maloof and Madeline Zadik attend 3rd International Feminist Book Fair in Montreal.	Montreal
1988	July. The National Endowment for the Humanities grants $110,000 to research done in the valley on the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
1988	September. Valley Women’s Voice celebrates its 10th anniversary.
1988	September 26. Unknown attacker rapes Smith student.	Northampton
1988	October. Hadley woman Anita King protests the lack of free abortions and pregnancy tests in Western Massachusetts.
1988	October . UMass student Jennie Arthur urges readers to vote yes on a humane farming referendum question.	Amherst
1988	October 8. 5,000 Valley residents attend “Take Back the Night" rally in response to a rape at Smith College.	Northampton
1988	October 8. Angela Bowen speaks at Unity and Diversity Conference at Hampshire College.	Amherst
1988	October 12. UMass hosts a debate: "Women's Issues in the November Elections."	Amherst
1988	October 17. Valley women, including Camie Nobel, participate in "Steps to Freedom" demonstration, protesting U.S. role in Central America, specifically El Salvador.

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