GALLERIES

Hilles Library is holding an exhibit of Photographs by Paul Bonnell. She calls it "Eight Series," and examines Women, children, animals, West Texas and four other subjects. They're good photographs -the West Texas ones show Bonnell's own close connection with the state. But they lack something-a sense of visual interest or some art-historical esoteric term like that. In short, they're dull. On the second floor.

I was always told in elementary school that Crispus Attacks was the first person killed in the Revolutionary War-at the Boston Massacre, to be exact. Now my friend the American History major tells me that revisionist historians are now claiming this is no longer true. Which makes the exhibit that just opened at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts all the more appropriate. It's called The Black presence in the Era of the American Revolution: 1700-1800. It's an interesting topic that most scholars seem to have an opinion on but nobody researches. Through March 30.

Also Retrospective of Walter Rosenblum photographs at the Fogg-our review is coming up next week, but go see it before then it's a good show "Photos by Patients at the Prospects Nursing Home" at the Prospect St. Photo Coop Gallery. 188 Prospect St. "Exhibit by and About Native Americans" at the Children's Museum-a "Participatory exhibit for visitors"-through April.