3/9/2021
With planned Blackstone statue, Pawtucket has a moment of reckoning
Installation of this monument of William Blackstone, by artist Peruko Coppacadi, has been put on hold as planners solicit feedback on the man being recognized in the statue.
PAWTUCKET – As debates about the future of existing statues continue to swirl, Pawtucket is now grappling with its own questions about a monument that has yet to be installed.
After historian Richard Kazarian researched the history behind the William Blackstone Monument at the corner of Roosevelt Avenue and Exchange Street, the project has subsequently been delayed.
As Kazarian sees it, a planned brief reference to the fate of indigenous peoples at the base of a 14-foot tall Blackstone statue in a small park at the corner of Roosevelt Avenue and Exchange Street was totally inappropriate and needed to be rethought.
1/26/2021
Reed: Slater Mill to be transferred to National Park Service
PAWTUCKET – Noting the historic importance of Slater Mill and exciting new opportunities for conservation, historic preservation, tourism, economic growth, education, and recreation, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed on Monday announced the U.S. National Park Service’s acquisition of Slater Mill and other key historic buildings that comprise the Old Slater Mill Historic District.
Reed wrote and passed a 2014 law, which was folded into the National Defense Authorization Act, directing the National Park Service to establish the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, including requiring the acquisition of Slater Mill.
Life in the other Leicester - more than 4,000 miles away
We have compared the city and the town
Leicester, Massachusetts (Image: Google Earth)
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More than 4,000 miles away, sits a small town which shares its name with our city.
The town of Leicester is in the state of Massachusetts, in Worcester county - around an hour s drive from the state capital Boston.