In 1869 Sophia Smith was committed to siting a future college for women in her hometown of Hatfield, but just three months before her death in 1870, she revised her will, shifting the location to Northampton. What had changed her mind? What were Northampton’s “superior advantages”? And what was Northampton like in the years after the Civil War and before the first class of Smith students entered in 1875? Join Laurie Sanders, Historic Northampton’s co-director and Smith College alumna ’88, for a closer look at the important connections between Northampton history and Smith College's founding.