All Posts Tagged With: "museum"

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About the Children’s Museum in Easton, Massachusetts

The Children’s Museum in Easton, Massachusetts makes an ideal destination for parents looking for a fun and hands-on learning experience with their young kids.
The museum focuses on touch, feel, and play exhibits and activities for the 1-8 age range, which makes it unique from other children museums in the Boston area. The museum is housed [...]

15Oct2008 | Cliff Calderwood | 3 comments | Continued
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New Bedford Whaling Museum – A Heritage of New England

Crowded within the borders of New England are hundreds of museums covering all kinds of topics and industries.
The most interesting to me are those that celebrate the uniqueness of the region’s past, and whaling was an industry that brought fame and fortune to New England during its heydays in the 19th century.
And the [...]

23Sep2008 | Cliff Calderwood | 2 comments | Continued
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The Norman Rockwell Museum - Stockbridge, Massachusetts

A Norman Rockwell painting or illustration is as instantly recognizable as playing a few bars of a symphony and knowing it was composed by Mozart.
Rockwell continues to be one of America’s most beloved artists.
Yes, his scenes and subjects help maintain his popularity and fan base - they are of growing up and growing old and [...]

17Jun2008 | Cliff Calderwood | 2 comments | Continued
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New England Maple Syrup Resource List

Spring time in New England means maple syrup making season is upon us. While you can buy maple syrup any week of the year in New England, the sap is only tapped from the special maple trees and made into syrup in the New England states for a brief six weeks during the spring months.
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28Mar2008 | Cliff Calderwood | 0 comments | Continued
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Is There Really a Museum of Bad Art in Boston?

Yes - and do you want to know more?
With so many Museums in Boston showing great Art, you have to wonder why we need one devoted to Bad Art. But the Museum of Bad Art is for real and opened its doors in Dedham in 1994.
Now, spend a few minutes at the museums web site [...]

15Feb2008 | Cliff Calderwood | 0 comments | Continued
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All About Russian Icons in Clinton, Massachusetts

No, I’m not talking about Tchaikovsky or Gorbachev, or even Vladimir Putin, but Russian icons as in paintings.
The town of Clinton in Massachusetts isn’t exactly where you’d expect to find a Museum of Russian Icons, but this rural central Massachusetts town hosts the personal collection of local businessman Gordon Lankton.
The 300-piece collection is the [...]

4Jan2008 | Cliff Calderwood | 0 comments | Continued