The American Craft Council, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing American craft, announced that Shokan-based designer/furniture maker Michael Puryear was named to its College of Fellows.
A man tasked with cleaning out Sheila Robbins's basement now stands accused of stealing more than 100 paintings from her and using a forged signature on a false receipt to sell the paintings to a collectibles shop in downtown Boston.
Long before the Sacklers appeared on the scene, families like the Astors, the Peabodys, and the Delanos cemented their upper-crust status through the global trade in opium.
HAVERHILL — Folk music recording artist Joe Crookston performs at the New Moon Coffeehouse on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 7:30 p.m. The coffeehouse is located in the Universalist Unitarian Church