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        The more I delve into the history of Amherst, the more I wonder where we would be as a community if we were aware of the ties that bind. In our blank awareness, it is as though we are stomping on the breath of those who've gone before us. Those men and women who lived their lives in tension with an emerging political and religious attitudes. An attitude, which wove into the fabric of American history, our history, the ideology called race, reinforcedwith on class inequality. Though we've become a college town because of the efforts of people like Samuel Fowler Dichinson, in the bossom of his dream, we are ignorant of his views on education for minorities and women. Hopefully, the trail of hope blazed in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds is not yet overgrown with attitudes of ignorance, fear and self preservation. My prayer is that in reading these snippets about past residents of Amherst, you will grasp that we have inherited a call for social justice- a call that is still raised with the charge to persist.

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