Emily Dickinson homestead trip, Sunday, June 8, 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Fee: $20.

Optional field trip: Dickinson sites in Amherst, MA. The visit to Amherst makes three separate stops.

There will be guided tours of the Dickinson Homestead, where the poet lived during her adult life, and the neighboring Evergreens, home of the poet's brother Austin and his wife, Susan Dickinson.

The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College will open specially to welcome conference participants to an exhibition of their Emily Dickinson Collection. This exhibition will include the daguerreotype of Dickinson, a lock of the poet's hair, original fascicles (facsimiles are on display at the Homestead), individual poems and letters, including the "Master Letters," first editions; and artist Mabel Loomis Todd's "Indian Pipes," painting, the inspiration for the covers of the first published volumes of the poems. Jerome Liebling's photographs for the award winning "The Dickinson's of Amherst" will be on display as well as Dickinson and Louise Bogan manuscripts. The book won the 2002 Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities from the Arts and Humanities Foundation. The Amherst College Archives and Special Collections (AC) also hold an important collection of Robert Frost's manuscripts, the papers of former U. S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur and the papers of Louise Bogan, including the recently acquired correspondence with William Maxwell. Some of this material will also be on display.

Five Colleges, Incorporated, home to a unique consortium of educational institutions and situated across the street from The Dell, the house built by Austin Dickinson for Mabel Loomis Todd, will hold a reception for tour participants.