Remembering Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, a day to live in infamy as the attack on Pearl Harbor brought us fully into World War II.

military uniforms on display at Franklin Historical Museum

At the Franklin Historical Museum, there is a military uniform display that is open through December. One of the items (not pictured here) is a shirt worn at Pearl Harbor on the day of the attack.

For those in the Franklin area, if you haven't had a chance to stop by to see the Museum, there are lots of treasures like this on display. It is worth a visit especially as it is free admission!

For more info on Pearl Harbor, this wikipedia page can get you started
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

For more info on the Franklin Historical Museum, you can visit their web page
http://www.franklinhistoricalmuseum.com/

Weekend in DC

My brothers and I took my father to the new Marine Corp Museum in Quantico, VA. The connections were all successful. Dad and I traveled from RI. Bob flew in from Chicago. Mike and his son, Mark, took the train to meet Dad and I at BWI where we rented a van, and rendezvoused with Bob.

Additional stories on the museum and pictures from the weekend can be found at Jerry's Story.

Statue for Museum

For her winning bid, Billig submitted four ideas. The one chosen by the committee features a 12-year-old boy - modeled after several acquaintances since her grandsons are now too old or too young - sitting on a pile of library books while reading from a single volume. The boy wears overalls, work boots and a buttoned-up shirt and waves a straw hat in the air. At his feet, a shaggy dog stands on its hind legs.

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In giving the sculptor guidance, Piana said she and the committee members wanted the work to be inviting and universal, rather than an imposing facsimile of a specific figure from the town's past, such as the bronze Benjamin Franklin statue on the library's steps.

"We want children to really go up,'' she said of the boy and dog work.

The sculpture is being paid for with a $40,000 state grant secured in last year's budget by state Rep. James Vallee, D-Franklin, with some of those funds also used for new town welcome signs, holiday decorations, and trash and recycling bins.
When the senior center moves to a new location on Daniel McCahill Way this fall, its old site will be landscaped and its old structure inspected before the museum takes over.

Read more in Michael Morton's article in the Milford Daily News


I think it is a good idea to bring the museum downtown to generate some traffic. I look forward to visiting and learning more about Franklin.

Eileen Ivers: Danish Winter Song

Eileen Ivers introduces the band, then gets into a lovely song.

Time: 5 minutes, 4 seconds



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From the Lowell Folk Festival held early this summer.

Milwaukee Art Museum - ship ashore

Milwaukee Art Museum - ship ashore
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a view from the northern side of the building

Milwaukee Art Museum

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We visited Milwaukee this weekend and were enthralled by the design of the Art Museum there. Each perspective gave it a slightly different but related view.

The theme of sailing and going with the flow of the wind and water was evident at each view point.

Seagulls, swordfish, ship prow, ship mast, gang plank; all these an more appeared. Stay tuned for more pictures.

We need to come back to Milwaukee. We had so much fun walking around and along the waterfront, we did not get into the exhibits of the museum at all!