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| Join the Children's Museum for pop-up museum fun at Downtown Sports - Feb 10 |
American Heritage Museum Bus TripWhere: Hudson, MAWhen: Saturday, October 15, 2022Time: Bus (school bus) will leave the Franklin Senior Center parking lot at 8:30 AM and will return to the Senior Center by 1:45 PM
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| Veterans' Council Planning Trip to American Heritage Museum in Hudson |
FM #731 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 731 in the series.
This session of the radio show shares the presentation and talk titled “Love Letters to the Presidents”. Franklin’s State Rep Jeff Roy presented at the Franklin Historical Museum on Sunday, Feb 13, 2022 to a full house. Jeff shared his adventures as he traveled to each of the Presidential libraries and museums.
Mary Olsson, Franklin Historical Commission, provides the very brief introduction to Jeff.
The link to the presentation document is included in the show notes.
The recording runs about 1 hour and 53 minutes, so let’s join Jeff on his journey to the Presidential libraries and museums.
Note: I think you should be able to follow along. While Jeff doesn’t provide page numbers, he does talk to a number of the photos and identifies which one is which on a page.
Audio file -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-731-love-letters-to-the-presidents-ma-state-rep-jeff-roy-02-13-22
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Link to the presentation document -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q7qkNZZzOcYLV9-WGt8AUYBhQx1RvxNn/view?usp=sharing
Link to the National Archives -> https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/visit
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| "Love Letters to the Presidents" audio recording of State Rep Jeff Roy |
This month's Second Sunday Speaker Series features State Rep Jeffrey Roy, with his timely presentation titled, "Love letters to Presidents". Over the past several years, Jeff has made it his mission and goal to travel the country visiting each Presidential Library. His travels, his impressions, and his stories will be shared in this educational and entertaining account of his quest.
Join us Sunday, February 13 for "Love letters to Presidents". Doors open at 1:00, presentation starts at 1:15. Admission is always free, donations are always welcome.
Admission is always free. We are ADA compliant with an elevator access in the back of the building. Our gift shop is open year round.
When visiting the museum, please consider donating a non perishable food item, in the collection box in the front lobby, for the Franklin Food Pantry. Come in and find your history.
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| Franklin Historical Museum, 80 West Central St |
"This new website is a celebration of New England as a landscape of work and innovation and a portal for exploring the American birthplace of a revolution that triggered the most profound set of social and environmental changes in human history."
Shared from Twitter: https://t.co/A6zJj5rzrU
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| new webpage -> Industrial History New England |
Boston Children’s Museum announced today that the iconic Milk Bottle will undergo a major renovation to its facade and infrastructure with the support of HP Hood.
The Milk Bottle was built in 1934 by Arthur Gagner of Taunton to dispense the homemade ice cream he produced. Standing 40 feet tall and weighing in at 15,000 pounds, the Milk Bottle was one of America’s first fast-food drive-in restaurants and an authentic example of the “Coney Island” style of architecture. If it were real, it could hold 58,620 gallons of milk.
“We are thrilled that the iconic Milk Bottle will be getting a much-needed facelift. It has been a meeting place and beloved landmark outside Boston Children’s Museum for 43 years,” said Carole Charnow, president and CEO, in a statement. “We are grateful that HP Hood is our partner and greatly value our long-term relationship with them.”Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
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| Chris Devers' photo on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/cdevers/2462452713/ |
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| FPAC, Franklin TV, and Woonsocket Museum of Broadcast Technology Team Up to Bring Broadway to THE BLACK BOX |
"Following reports that the famed photographer and longtime Massachusetts College of Art and Design professor acted inappropriately with students, Nicholas Nixon’s best-known collection of pictures has been removed from the Institute of Contemporary Art.
His work, The Brown Sisters, is a series of photographs taken of his wife and her three sisters every year since 1975. They’ve been on display at the ICA, along with dozens of his other photographs, for months in an exhibition called “Nicholas Nixon: Persistence of Vision” and had been scheduled to remain there another 10 days."
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| Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco |
The ICA has taken down Nicholas Nixon's famed collection "The Brown Sisters" after allegations of sexual harassment https://t.co/k9fZTv76xb pic.twitter.com/YzGEQAOWAC— Boston Magazine (@BostonMagazine) April 12, 2018
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| quote from President Kennedy's 1st Inaugural Address |
"All of this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in the our lifetime on this planet. But let it begin."
When the commission moved into its current museum on West Central Street three years ago, the South Franklin Congregational Meeting House no longer had a use and now stands perpetually empty.
Recently, commissioners have been discussing with town officials potential uses for the old church — such as leasing or selling it — but have hit hurdle after hurdle.
While the town has maintained the more than 150-year-old building to a certain extent, it will still require an extensive amount of work before it can be sold or repurposed, according to Town Administrator Jeffrey Nutting.
Occupying a single third-floor gallery, the swords in the exhibit are displayed in separate display cases according to chronology and function.
In addition to several swords, a placard in each cabinet briefly explains the metal-making techniques used to forge them plus additional information on their special features such as the development of complex hilts to protect the user's hand and evolution of the short-bladed cutlass for fighting on board crowded vessels.
Some of the exhibit's sections include "Ancient Swords," "Medieval Swords," "After the Middle Ages," "Small Swords," "Naval Swords," "American Swords," "Swords of Ceremony and Fancy" and "Making and Using a Sword."
