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Shouldn’t Miss News of the Week
Here’s some news that I think you shouldn’t miss, enjoy! Long Hidden, Vatican Painting Linked to Native Americans: This is a case of what happens when a painting completed in 1494 gets cleaned as part of the restoration process. Very … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Community, Historic Preservation, Newsworthy, Place
Tagged 1920s, art, art restoration, baseball, baseball field, Chicago Cubs, Civil War, economic development, fresco, full moon, historical astronomy, modernization, painting, Providence, restoration, Stonewall Jackson, theater, Vatican, Wrigley Field
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Thoughts for Thursday (on Friday): Cemetery Image Problems
This is the followup to my previous Thoughts for Thursday in which I asked you about how a particular cemetery near me can improve its image in the public sphere after a spat of illegal dumping, attempted thievery, and vandalism. … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery, Community
Tagged Cemeteries, cemetery, cemetery preservation, gravestones, headstone, headstones, image problems, resetting, stone resetting, tours
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Shouldn’t Miss News of the Week
Here is news from last week that I think you shouldn’t miss, enjoy! Pre-Viking tunic found on glacier as warming trend aids archaeology: Glaciers are shrinking, and even if some are still debating the underlying cause(s), there have been some … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Art, Cemetery, Community, Historic Preservation, Lighter Side, Museums, Newsworthy, Place
Tagged Archaeology, Arlington National Cemetery, art, artifacts, bronze statue, cat videos, cats, cemetery, Community, Draped Seated Woman, economy, Ellis Island, festival, glaciers, global warming, Henry Moore, Hurricane Sandy, melting, pre-viking, sculpture, selling art, Statue of Liberty, storm damage, trees, viral videos, Walker Art Center, warming
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Shouldn’t Miss News of the Week
Here are some articles from this week that you shouldn’t miss, enjoy! Cornish tapped to convert Superman building to apartments: This is a local story for me, and shows why tax credits for Rhode Island should be reinstated or else … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Community, Historic Preservation, Place, Preservation, Technology
Tagged Ancient Egypt, apartments, Archaeology, CT scan, digitization, fire, historic documents, King Richard III, library, Mali, manuscripts, mummy, place, placemaking, Providence, Superman building, Timbuktu, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Shouldn’t Miss News of the Week
Here are some articles that you shouldn’t miss this week. Enjoy! Is My Museum Lying to Me?: How do you feel about finding out that what you are looking at at a museum is a replica? What if the museum … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Community, Museums, Newsworthy, Place
Tagged Archaeology, artifacts, authenticity, buildings, demolition by neglect, Hurricane Sandy, Mesoamerica, museums, replica, Scotland, Shetland ponies, skulls, tourism, tourism campaign
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Tragedy and Place
I was going to write a belated Thoughts for Thursday (on Friday!) today, but given the events that occurred in Newtown, Connecticut today, it just didn’t feel right. It feels that I was just writing my thoughts on another tragedy, … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Place
Tagged Connecticut, elementary school, Newtown, place, safe, school, tragedy
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Food Trucks and the Community
This is a continuation of Thoughts for Thursday from November 2nd about food trucks and the community, but as this is not a Thursday, I have dropped the Thoughts for Thursday from the title of this post. I am loving … Continue reading
Posted in Community
Tagged Columbus, Community, food, Food Truck Festivals of New England, food trucks, Newport, Ohio, Providence, Rhode Island, social media, Tatoheads, Twitter
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Thoughts for Thursday, On Friday: Food Trucks and the Community
Thoughts for Thursday, on Friday. Like many in the US, Hurricane Sandy, threw me off the first half of this week. Thank you for your understanding for the delay. Fortunately for me, life is back to normal, for so many … Continue reading
Posted in Community
Tagged Community, food, food trucks, Hurricane Sandy, Ohio, photography, Rhode Island, thank you
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Thoughts for Thursday
This Thoughts for Thursday is inspired by the Newport Food Truck Festival that I attended on Saturday at the Newport Yachting Center in Newport, Rhode Island. Food Truck Festivals of New England organized and ran the event. I have been … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Place
Tagged Community, economy, food, Food Truck Festivals of New England, food trucks, Newport, photography, Rhode Island, Thoughts For Thursday
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Main Street Part 2
Finally! The continuation of my post on Main Street is here. This post will introduce you to the vacant lot that was once a gas station. First a bird’s eye view of the lot thanks to Google Earth. I added … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Main Street, Place, Planning
Tagged East Greenwich, Main Street, planning, Rhode Island, vacancy
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