This place now known as Northampton is part of a larger region known to Indigenous (Native American) people as Nonotuck or Norwottuck.  Nonotuck homelands stretched across both sides of the Kwinitekw (now called the Connecticut River), including the present-day towns of Amherst, Hadley, Hatfield, South Hadley, Northampton, and Easthampton.

In honoring the ancestors of this land on Indigenous Peoples’ Day The NRC will be closed both Saturday, October 12th & Sunday, October 13th. Both of the Al-Anon meetings will still take place. See our other calendar entries for meeting info.