Gala Restaurant to Host Black History Luncheon
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Gala Restaurant & the Orchards Hotel is hosting a luncheon to celebrate Black History Month on Monday, Feb. 22, from noon to 2 p.m. in private function space at the Orchards Hotel.Frances Jones-Sneed, professor of history at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, will be the keynote speaker.
Jones-Sneed has taught and researched local history for more than 25 years, is co-director of the Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail, and a board member of MassHumanities and the Samuel Harrison Society. She has directed two National Endowment for the Humanities grants, entitled "The Shaping Role of Place in African American Biography" (in 2006) and "Of Migrations and Renaissances: Harlem/NY &South Side/Chicago, 1915-75" (in 2008), both "We the People" projects. She will speak about the heritage of African Americans in Berkshire County.
Jones-Sneed spearheaded a national conference on African-American biography in September 2006. A 2008 NEH Summer Fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University, she currently is working on a monograph about W.E.B DuBois.
The event includes a buffet lunch and discussion; the cost is $15.95 per person plus taxes and gratuity.
Reservations are strongly recommended. For reservations or more information, contact Brian Flagg, Gala Restaurant & Bar, 413-458-9611, ext. 531 or brian@galarestaurant.com.
