# Event Details - **Event Name**: Betsy Small in Person - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us on Wednesday, June 11 at 7 PM as Betsy Small presents her new book, Before Before: A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone.About this EventJoin us on Wednesday, June 11 at 7 PM as Betsy Small presents her new book, Before Before: A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone. She will be joined in conversation by Polly Byers.About the BookSierra Leone is often sensationalized as a place of extreme violence and suffering—of blood diamonds, child soldiers, war amputations, and Ebola and now the highly addictive drug Kush. Before Before captures daily life in a different country, one Betsy Small first encountered as a Peace Corps worker between 1984–1987, and then rediscovered when she returned decades later with her daughter. Living in Tokpombu, a remote community of forty rice-farming families, the author faced struggles that changed her forever and witnessed the growing tensions in this rainforest village—between the young and old, between the traditions of oral history and honoring the ancestors valued by the elders and the siren call of the illicit diamond mines faced by the youth.Before Before offers a rare portrait of everyday people, with particular focus on the lives of women and girls, before the brutal war of 1991 tore the country apart. Through Small’s account of immersion in another world as she witnessed injustice and was welcomed as a friend, readers are invited to explore the shared ground of our humanity.About the AuthorBetsy Small served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone from 1984 to 1987. For over thirty years, she has worked with divided communities both in the US and abroad. This experience inspired her to write Before Before: A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone.Betsy holds master's degrees in cross-cultural counseling psychology and special education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and North Carolina Central University. Throughout her career she has taught and provdied couneling to families and youth in schools and universities and various non profit organizations. In addition, she has served as Executive Director for global peace-building organizations, and most recently, she has collaborated with teams of peace-builders in Israel, Palestine and Cyprus and Northern Ireland.About Polly ByersPolly Byers recently stepped down as the Executive Director of Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, based in Amherst Mass, and has more than 30 years of experience working bothwithin and outside of government channels to support peacebuilding practices and to increase local collaboration and ownership of aid and peace processes.In a career working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of State, the Congressional Select Committee on Hunger, and a range of international and non-governmental organization, she has focused on collaborative approaches to increase local engagement and ownership of aid and peacebuilding efforts. Ms. Byers holds an MA from YaleUniversity in International Relations, a BA from Wesleyan University, and served as a PeaceCorps Volunteer in Morocco. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/south-hadley/betsy-small-in-person/100001344374272639 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fbetsy-small-in-person-tickets-1344374272639 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: South Hadley - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Odyssey Bookshop - **lat**: 42.259151 - **long**: -72.57602 - **full address**: Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Odyssey Bookshop (https://allevents.in/org/odyssey-bookshop/18799656) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F1019444033%2F389436746473%2F1%2Foriginal.20250429-190255?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&s=8434f512bdffd78b91bd1c55e1e9a3dc - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F1019444033%2F389436746473%2F1%2Foriginal.20250429-190255?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&s=8434f512bdffd78b91bd1c55e1e9a3dc ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 11 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Odyssey Bookshop - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Betsy Small in Person ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Betsy Small in Person", "image": "https://img.evbuc.com/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.evbuc.com%2Fimages%2F1019444033%2F389436746473%2F1%2Foriginal.20250429-190255?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=75&sharp=10&s=8434f512bdffd78b91bd1c55e1e9a3dc", "startDate": "2025-06-11", "endDate": "2025-06-11", "url": "https://allevents.in/south-hadley/betsy-small-in-person/100001344374272639", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Odyssey Bookshop", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "9 College Street", "postalCode": "01075", "addressLocality": "South Hadley", "addressRegion": "MA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "42.259151", "longitude": "-72.57602" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us on Wednesday, June 11 at 7 PM as Betsy Small presents her new book, Before Before: A Story of Discovery and Loss in Sierra Leone.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2025-06-11", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/south-hadley/betsy-small-in-person/100001344374272639" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/south-hadley/betsy-small-in-person/100001344374272639", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/south-hadley/betsy-small-in-person/100001344374272639", "price": 0, "name": "Donation to Support Our Events" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Odyssey Bookshop", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/odyssey-bookshop/18799656" } ] } ] ```