Posted on July 10, 2020 at 4:53 PM by Patty Ryburn
The textile mill city of Lowell, MA was the birthplace of artist Charles Peter Demetropoulos and the Whistler House Museum of Art located there--named for well-known American painter and etcher James McNeill Whistler of an earlier era--houses several pieces of Demetropoulos’ work.
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Posted on June 13, 2020 at 12:04 PM by Patty Ryburn
In the Periodicals Reading Room located to the left of “the dome” as you face the Canton Public Library from outside, hangs an original oil painting by artist Hyun Bo Yoo. Purchased c.1983, this large landscape over the fireplace depicts a field with wetlands and a variety of colorful plant life surrounding the small figure of a woman and two children at play, along the right hand side of the canvas.
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Posted on May 21, 2020 at 3:36 PM by Patty Ryburn
Four hundred years ago this year when the first of the European settlers were recorded as having arrived on Massachusetts’ shores at currently-named Plymouth, the sachem or Indian chief of the Neponset band of the Massachuset tribe of natives, which were settled mostly around Massachusetts Bay, was Chicataubet.
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