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Haggard’s work to be featured Artist Lynette Haggard will be showing her work in an exhibition entitled Lyrical Geometry at the Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery at Alternatives’ Whitin Mill, 50 Douglas Road, Whitinsville. The exhibition opens on Friday, August 2nd with an artists’ reception from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The public is invited. Lynette Haggard is an award-winning artist who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Philadelphia College of Art. Her work has been selected for numerous shows, including the Sixth Annual Encaustic Invitational at Conrad Wilde Gallery in Tucson. other venues include Attleboro Museum of Art, Danforth Museum of Art, new Hampshire Institute of Art, Saco Museum, the Art Complex Museum, and galleries throughout the United States. Her work is included in many collections, such as those at new Britain Museum of American Art, Massachusetts General Hospital, Emerson Hospital, Parmenter Hospice, Pearson Education, as well as in private
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collections here and abroad. Haggard works in encaustics, a paint medium which uses wax as a base and dates to ancient times. Speaking of the series of paintings to be included in the exhibition, she says: “The Timbre series is about color, transparency, visual depth, and building layered, reworked surfaces.” Writer David Raymond of Art new England Magazine has described her work as “Straightforward rectangular acreage of layered colors that shimmer through the wax, like farmland seen from a plane.” Lynette Haggard publishes an art blog: www.LynetteHaggard.blogspot. com and is a regular presenter at the International Encaustic Conference. She lives and maintains her studio in Framingham. You can see more of her work at www.LynetteHaggard.com. The exhibition continues through Sept. 26th. Gallery hours are Mon. Fri., 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Weekends and evening by appointment. FMI call 508234-6232 or www.Alternativesnet.org.
This month The Blackstone River Valley national Heritage Corridor and the Friends of Asa Waters Mansion "Team Up" to present, “The Revival of the original Lyceum” Topic: Baseball in the Blackstone Valley on Thursday, August 15th. “When it comes to singling out and naming the hotbed of Baseball in these United States, you can cross off your list such cities as new York, Boston, Chicago and Detroit. The most redblooded center in America, inch for inch, soul for Photo by RogeR APPeLL oF AshLAnD soul, is in the Blackstone Valley.”-Worcester Massachusetts Spy, 1926 Before a professional minor league system existed, the Blackstone Valley League, an industrial league, played Friends Susan Darnell and member of the Framingham some of the finest baseball in America. The Blackstone her husband Carl Moore of Finance Committee for 17 River Valley national Heritage Corridor and Friends of Asa Mendon, joined James “Jim” years with Peter. Jim is a for- Waters Mansion will present a Lyceum Program in honor Dwyer, wife Constance mer Selectman in Uxbridge of the 200th anniversary of the town of Millbury (where the “Connie” Dwyer, of Sutton; where many of his friends first American Lyceum was held in 1826). A panel will disand friends Peter and Suzy came to join him along with cuss the early beginnings of baseball in America, and the TenBroeck of new Hamp- other friends from all over role of the league in the development of the Blackstone shire. Carl & Jim are fellow new England. The birthday Valley right up to its demise in 1950. Refreshments will be amateur poets and Peter was party was hosted by Jim’s for sale by Creedon and Company who will be offering the best man at his & daughter; Susan Travis of "ballpark favorites" such as Fenway franks, popcorn, Connie’s wedding and Jim Sutton. lemonade, Coca-cola, and, for those over 21, the epoch served as a past Chairman & narragansett beer (served in Fenway park from WWII until
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the 1970s, now once again brewed in Providence). Guests are encouraged to wear a favorite baseball cap, bring vintage gloves, bats, or old baseballs to show fellow fans. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be for sale beginning at 5:30 p.m. with the program starting at 6:30 p.m. The Asa Waters Mansion, located at 123 Elm Street, in Millbury, Massachusetts is listed on the state and national registers of historic sites. For further information contact the Blackstone River Valley national Heritage Corridor at www.blackstonevalleycorridor.org or 401-762-0250, or the Mansion at 508-865-0855, www.asawaters.org. Follow Facebook: Blackstone River Valley national Heritage Corridor
Milford Regional dedicates “Take The Stairs” Mural
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The completion of an impressive mural to promote healthy living in one of Milford Regional Medical Center’s stairwells was celebrated at a dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony held at the Medical Center on Tuesday, June 18th. The creation of a mural was the brainchild of the Medical Center’s Healthy Balance Committee as part of an initiative to inspire hospital employees to maintain and improve their health by “taking the stairs.” The focus on health became a community project when community muralist Tova Speter got involved along with the Painting and Design students from Blackstone Valley Technical High as well as their instructors. Hospital employees worked side by side with BVT students and the muralist to complete this project. Recognized at the dedication was the hospital’s Colleague Giving Program as well as the following community partners who provided donations to make the project possible: Hockomock Area YMCA, Stop and Shop Supermarkets, Milford Benjamin Moore and Co. and Milford Cable TV.