HADLEY — The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum presents “In Defiance, 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught In School, a book talk and signing with authors Tom Weiner and Amilcar Shabazz, held in the Museum’s Corn Barn on Wednesday, June 17, at 5 p.m. This program is free and open to the public.

The book uncovers the untold stories of individuals who risked their lives to fight enslavement, serving as a compelling call for justice and the preservation of history and brings to light the often-suppressed stories of those who risked everything to end enslavement.

Profiling 20 Black and white men and women, the book highlights their courage, activism, and unwavering commitment to freedom. Through vignettes, including their own words, their struggles and sacrifices come to life.

Weiner is a Northampton-based writer, educator and anti-racist activist, and Shabazz is a professor and former president of the National Council for Black Studies.

The Porter-Phelps Huntington Museum sits on ancestral  Nonotuck lands. The House was built in 1752 by Moses and Elizabeth Porter and was central to the 600-acre farmstead known as “Forty Acres.” Today, the 114 acre property is “Forty Acres and Its Skirts,” a National Register of Historic Places district that includes the PPH museum and homestead, and neighboring Phelps farm, surrounded by protected farmland, forest, and river frontage. The museum is located at 130 River Drive in Hadley.

AMHERST — This Wednesday, June 17, at 7 p.m., Amherst Cinema welcomes Amherst Regional High School graduate Elijah Stevens for a question-and-answer session following a screening of his new film, “Time and Water,” completed with animator Lucy Munger, a fellow ARHS alum.

Stevens was raised in Leverett and Munger was raised in Amherst. They both live in Brookyln.

Tickets for this screening are $11.75 for general admission, $10.75 for seniors and students, and $8.25 for Amherst Cinema members. Tickets can be purchased in person at the Amherst Cinema box office, or online at amherstcinema.org/films-and-events/time-and-water.

In addition to this special screening featuring Stevens and Munger, “Time and Water” plays daily at Amherst Cinema at least through Thursday, June 18.

SPRINGFIELD — The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, entitled One Nation Under God, will visit the Diocese of Springfield June 18-20. The pilgrimage is in honor of the 250th birthday of the founding of the United States.

A spiritual journey, it began on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, in St. Augustine, Florida, near the site where the first Catholic Mass was celebrated in what later would become the United States.

The pilgrimage is a continuation of the landmark National Eucharistic Revival Congress held in 2024. It is currently making its way up the East Coast making stops in many of the original 13 colonies, concluding in Philadelphia, Independence Day weekend.

Nine young adults from across the United States will comprise the core group of perpetual pilgrims. After a stop in New York, the pilgrimage will make its way to Massachusetts through Stockbridge with a visit to The National Shrine of the Divine Mercy on Thursday, June 18.

“What is really unique about this is that dioceses are planning events based on what is most important in that diocese, culturally historically cool sites. For example, in Florida they are doing a boat pilgrimage on the water between two parts. In Colonial Williamsburg, they’re doing a procession through Colonial Williamsburg,” said Joe Austin, the director of the Office of Missionary Discipleship. His office is coordinating the local visit.“So, they will first come through Divine Mercy Shrine in Stockbridge. Then that evening, they will come to the Forest Park amphitheater. This is really going to be an incredible event and we are really carefully designing this event to bring all cultures from our diocese together featuring witness talks in different languages,” he said.

There will also be praise and worship music at the Ignite event at Forest Park. Later in the evening, the pilgrimage will make a stop at St. Paul Parish in Springfield, before going to St. Michael’s Cathedral for all-night eucharistic adoration.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini is the patron saint of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. St. Francis Cabrini was an Italian born nun and first U.S. citizen to be canonized. On Friday, June 19, the pilgrimage will stop at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in Springfield, which was built by Italian immigrants. The parish will be assembling blessing bags for the homeless as part of their participation.

Also, on June 19, the pilgrimage will stop at St. Stanislaus Basilica in Chicopee and the Massachusetts Veterans Home at Holyoke. The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s final stop in the diocese will be at Thomas Aquinas College in Northfield. There will be a closing procession, all-night adoration and Mass at Thomas Aquinas College on June 20.

For more information, go to diospringfield.org.