I have an essay on Edmonia Lewis in Florence in 1865 in this new English language collection by an Italian publisher. Google the title for American sellers.
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on November 20, 2009 at 9:13pm —
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Dr. Hugh Hill, a spectacular professional storyteller known to one and all as Brother Blue, has died in Cambridge, MA at age 88.
Brother Blue was a true shaman. Once you met and spoke with him, or once you saw and heard him perform, especially out in the open in Harvard Square, or once you were there when he stood to make a comment from the audience at some talk or performance, his image and spirit were forever imprinted upon your own spirit. As he said, he spoke from the middle of the middle o…
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on November 5, 2009 at 6:43pm —
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Be sure to go see the wonderful newly installed 3' X 5' intricate bas-relief plaque in the State House honoring MA labor history. Sculptor is Meredith Bergmann who also created Women's Memorial on Comm. Ave.
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on September 22, 2009 at 7:40pm —
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Don't miss the excellent article on the movement to save the Caesar Robbins house in Concord.
Globe 9/14/09, page 1 front and center with a very nice photo of the house.
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on September 14, 2009 at 9:22am —
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The Cambridge, MA original D/R jewel box building on Brattle Street is temporarily a multi-level Marimekko exhibition design space. Nostalgia to the max.
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on September 1, 2009 at 7:37pm —
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I read that the
Amistad replica will be part of the Tall Ships event and will be offering tours. I did not see it listed in the Globe today though. Anyone know if it will be here?
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on July 9, 2009 at 6:26pm —
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Here is the statement I made at the meeting at Brown on saving Bannister's Home
Edward Mitchell Bannister Lived at 93 Benevolent Street
You sit here now. The house where your family lived when you were born has been torn down. The house you grew up in has been torn down; the first place you lived after college has been torn down; the place you lived in when you first married has been torn down. We shall all live to be at least 100 years old, but ten years after we die, the home we last…
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on June 29, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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So far we have had good meetings and good progress on saving painter Edward Mitchell Bannister's home at 93 Benevolent St. He and wife Christiana lived there from 1884 to 1898.The building is owned by Brown Univ.
Please feel free to write an encouraging note to Brown Univ. Pres. Dr. Ruth Simmons:
president@brown.edu
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on June 25, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Edmonia Lewis's 1874 sculpture,
The Marriage of Hiawatha, (lot 32) went for $314,500 at Sotheby's May 21 American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture auction. My catalogue essay is online with some fine pictures. The published catalogue actually features the sculpture and the essay with a gorgeous colorful layout.
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on May 21, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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Bannister spent many productive years in Boston.
I found this article from the
Providence Journal quite disturbing. Although Pres. Simmons is quoted as supporting restoration of the Bannister home, a few paragraphs later a Univ. spokesperson makes it clear that they wish they could palm it off on an organization they must know could never afford to purchase or restore the building. Your Thoughts?
BLACK CONTRIBUTIONS KEPT ALIVE
Sunday, March 1, 2009
By Neil Downing
Journal Staff Write…
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on March 1, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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I’ve decided to post something a bit unusual, possibly controversial, and definitely personal. We have, however, many posts that deal with oral history projects, first-hand accounts, a Memories Road Show, and similar programs. I think my vignette fits in there as food for thought about past and present. As you will see, the actual piece was written some months ago.
The Bancroft School in Worcester, founded in 1900, is the oldest independent day school in Central Massachusetts. The School was…
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on February 10, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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“Written by first-rate scholars, these 10 essays give focus to the antislavery movement in Boston, particularly to the significance of African American abolitionists.” —Choice
“ . . . handsome, lavishly illustrated, and informative . . . ” —The New England Quarterly…
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on January 30, 2009 at 1:10pm —
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The African Meeting House on Beacon Hill
The original Meeting House built in 1806
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on January 30, 2009 at 1:00am —
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Last month I gave a paper at a really interesting conference in Florence having to do with the English Cemetery. At least 80 Americans were also buried there in the 19th-century, including Theodore Parker. I spoke on Edmonia Lewis who began her life in Italy in Florence - - and said a bit as well about Sarah Parker Remond who was born in Salem and studied medicine in Florence (I should be clear that neither woman is buried there; they were part of the larger Florentine ex-pat community.)
For so…
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on November 23, 2008 at 1:55pm —
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We should all support this new and improved incarnation of the original publication, now edited by the brilliant Amy Hoffman. It's a Massachusetts journal with national and international reach. Be sure you or your institution subscribe, and consider writing a review essay; I have one in the Nov./Dec. issue.
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Added by Marilyn Richardson on November 23, 2008 at 1:38pm —
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