On Nov 2, 1927, the afternoon sky grew ominously dark as residents of River Street received the daily North Adams Transcript. Thirty-six hours later, over six inches of soaking rain had fallen, carrying a few tenement houses into the raging water. The Marshall Street bridge broke … [Read more...]
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Claremont, New Hampshire: Starting To Look Like Success (2007)
Every town needs some things to remember, some things to look forward to, and some things that look like success. Our best friends from Connecticut were visiting one day, and my wife and I took them for a drive. We wound up in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, a 25-minute trip … [Read more...]
Blue Benn Beckons From Green Mountains (2004)
"Man in an apron cooking potatoes, strips of bacon on the side/Smiling waitress comes to help me with her tired, lovin’ eyes/Shiny stainless, neon sign, remind of a day gone by/With steaming coffee in a porcelain cup, rice pudding piled high." The words of singer Bill Lauf are … [Read more...]
Rewinding My Life (2004)
I was born in Washington, DC, and lived in the rural suburbs of Prince George’s County, including Greenbelt, before moving 60 miles south to even more rural Solomons Island in 1951. I came from a musical family. My paternal grandparents were string players who had traveled … [Read more...]
In Praise Of Small Spaces (September 2003)
Last month’s annual Downtown Celebration was once again a lively display of community spirit and togetherness. For more than four hours, Main and Eagle Streets became the ultimate public space, a relatively sizeable area enclosed by tall, familiar buildings and the comforting … [Read more...]
Mass MoCA Security Guard Experiences Museum With All Senses (August 2003)
Jim Daunais was born in Adams 58 years ago, and has lived there most of his life. For a time, his mother worked in the Berkshire Mills. He remembers the noise she had to put up with. "One time, my sister and I went to pick her up, and I was parked near the door. The noise was … [Read more...]
Mass MoCA Interns Have ‘Incredible’ Experience (July 2003)
Sarah Sandler was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1981, 55 years after R.C. Sprague founded the Sprague Electric Company in the same city. A communications major at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, she has been interning this summer in the development department at … [Read more...]
Sitting In The Circle (April 2003)
It is the second Friday of the month, a time I always look forward to. About 9:45 a.m., I enter the First Baptist Church in North Adams through the side door on Eagle Street. I am greeted by Carolyn Leab, who is making coffee and setting out munchkins on the table in the basement … [Read more...]
Everybody’s At Shady Glen (2002)
Every morning, Rene, a hair salon owner from Gill, Massachusetts, walks across the bridge over the Connecticut River to get breakfast at her favorite place in Turners Falls. "I’ve been coming here for 35 years," she told me, shouting over the chatter and clatter. "It was the … [Read more...]
New Town, Old Friends (2002)
Picture this. I am enjoying lunch on a crisp September day in a smartly dressed café near the largest center for contemporary art and performance in the United States. I can see the top of a 75-foot clock tower and the red and yellow foliage on the mountain behind it. At a table … [Read more...]
Bartow Lives ‘Designers Dream’ At Museum (October 2002)
When Doug Bartow was interviewed for a job at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in late 1994, the museum was still waiting to be certified for state funding. He had no guarantee that the position would still exist the following spring, when he expected to complete his … [Read more...]
One More Steep Road (October 2001)
Steep Roads, poem by Joe Manning Life is all struggle and triumph, triumph and struggle. That is why I love to walk the steep roads of North Adams: Prospect up to Franklin, Meadow up to East Quincy, East Quincy up to Kemp, Hathaway up to North, Cliff up to … [Read more...]
Sitting On The Porch (August 2001)
The Golden Cross, poem by Joe Manning Gramma used to tell me about the floods. She said that when she saw the store floatin' down the river, it was time to get out. So she moved to Rand Street, 'cause it was way up on the hill. My parents lived on Front … [Read more...]
Porches Inn Brings New Era To River Street, Chapter Three: Conclusion (July 2001)
"They kept the wood around the mirrors. The wainscoting is still there. But they took all the memories out. I wanted it to stay like it was." Several months after the Porches Inn opened in the summer of 2001, 69-year-old Mary (Cardinal) Gaudreau went over with her son to take … [Read more...]
Porches Inn Brings New Era To River Street, Chapter One: Flood Of ’27 (July 2001)
The following article appeared in the North Adams Transcript on May 25, 2001. Used by permission. In a row of Victorian houses on River Street, a new standard of industrial comfort is coming to life. Early in the past century, mill workers rested in these structures after … [Read more...]
Miracles (July 2001)
A few months ago, I was taking some photographs of the building facades along the downtown block of Eagle Street, when one of the storekeepers came out and asked me what I was doing. When I told him, he said: "There’s nothing here worth looking at. In fact, there’s nothing in … [Read more...]
Reappearing In North Adams (June 2001)
"I’m looking so hard for a place to land/I almost forgot how to fly." -from "Lopin’ Along Thru The Cosmos," a song by the late singer/songwriter Judee Sill Most of us remember our first taste of ice cream, the first time we drove a new car home from the dealer, that first … [Read more...]
Saving River Street (April 2000)
Several weeks ago, a most welcome announcement was made. That row of beautiful but deteriorating houses on River Street, across from Mass MoCA, will be saved and turned into an inn. The renovations will preserve the historic architecture. Mass MoCA Director Joe Thompson explained … [Read more...]
A Walk On River Street (January 2000)
"Someday, that’s going to be Fifth Avenue." -comment often attributed to Tom Krens, Mass MoCA founder, while looking at River Street from the windows in Building 5. The word around town lately is that all the houses on River Street from Houghton to Brown may be demolished … [Read more...]
The Need To Connect With Mass MoCA (October 1999)
As the last band made the turn and disappeared down Ashland Street, I could almost feel the chill of an oncoming winter lurking behind the mountains. Once again, the Fall Foliage Parade brings the summer to an abrupt end. This was my fourth parade. For the last four years, each … [Read more...]