Emily Dickinson 196th Birthday Open House - Please Join Us!

Sat., Dec. 12, 1-4:45pm ET, 2026

You are cordially invited to the Emily Dickinson Museum’s celebration of the poet’s 196th birthday! On Saturday, December 12, join us in person at the Homestead and The Evergreens for an open house with tours, crafts, music, hot cider and gingerbread cookies! Emily Dickinson, the second child of Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson, was born on December 10, 1830, in the family Homestead on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, now the site of the Emily Dickinson Museum. She celebrated 55 birthdays before her death in 1886. Some of the poet’s most favored themes were time and im/mortality. She wrote, “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” (Johnson L379)

To register and to make a Birthday Gift in honor of the poet's 196th Birthday: https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/196th-birthday-open-house/

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When?

• Sat., Dec. 12, 1-4:45pm ET, 2026

Where?

• The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts