Al Southwick: An Irish story and the birth of St Patrick s Day in Worcester telegram.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegram.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Chuck Arning, Public Historian, PHOTO:
Chuck Arning, an award-winning public historian with nearly twenty-five years’ experience as an interpretive ranger with the National Park Service, will present a talk entitled: “How Hard Would it be to Dig a Ditch Anyhow? - How the Irish Saved the Blackstone Canal”
The Museum of Newport Irish History announces this presentation as the fourth talk in its 19th Annual Michael F. Crowley Lecture Series, to be presented “virtually” on Tuesday, March 16 at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom.
Rhode Islanders were excited about building the Blackstone Canal and saw it as a major employment opportunity. However, canal construction proved more difficult than originally thought and Rhode Islanders in 1824 struggled to build it.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
Building of Blackstone Canal focus of Museum of Newport Irish History lecture msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Edward Tivnan: The return of a Worcester native (to check out Polar Park)
Edward Tivnan
It was 1950, and I was a 5-year old playing catch with my father in Vernon Hill Park, a short walk from our apartment in a Windham Street three-decker. A young guy greeted my dad who advised me to “shake the hand of a minor league ballplayer.” I don’t remember his name or team, but I’ve never forgotten that he promised to bring me a team cap – and never delivered.
I’m here to report that I finally received my minor league cap – from the Worcester Red Sox. This is a miracle, not just because a Triple-A ball club is now headquartered within walking distance of Vernon Hill Park. The WooSox will also lure thousands of Worcester natives living in distant parts back home to experience the new, more confident Worcester.
westminster, the beginning and end of this century-long study that i ve completed. when i was visiting the benington museum a few summers ago i not only made the acquaintance of james wilson, first american commercial globemaker but i discovered the unique power of objects to tell a story that s not available to us from the textural record. to be honest, i had come to the museum really although i said i came to look at objects i came to look at the cure torial files, looking at text, which i was much more comfortable with. an exhibit on vermont furniture in the early republic. but as i wandered through the sunlit main gallery where the museum s treasured objects were displayed, i started to see things that helped me understand how artisans and consumers and those are really the two groups imagined their world. first my eye was struck by a large neoclassical sideboard that you see here with this oops. with this graceful bow front and sleek lines looking for all the wor