While doing research for her recently-published book, Dames, Dishes and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America, Amy Mittelman stumbled across an unsolved mystery concerning the 1946 death of Donald Green, a prominent local businessman. Green was the husband of Constance Green, author of Holyoke, Massachusetts: A Case History of the Industrial Revolution in America and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
In Dames, Dishes, and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America, Amy reveals what really went on behind ivy-covered walls and explores the origins, structure, and history of faculty wives’ clubs. Amy’s talk will explore Donald’ Green’s death, the city of Holyoke, married women’s aspirations, and her book on the experience of faculty wives.

Amy Mittelman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, and has a PhD in history from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts. In 2007, she published Brewing Battles: A History of American Beer, and is the author of articles, essays, reviews, and reference works. Her varied career and experience as a nurse, historian, author, faculty wife, mother, and businesswoman informs her writing.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Holyoke History Room.