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The Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts just got a high-tech installation to help keep their students from getting lost around campus: a three-dimensional map that talks. Its miniature ...
The complex is located north of downtown Worcester, between Grove and Prescott Streets north of Faraday Street. It consists of thirteen brick buildings, the oldest of which was built in 1863. Located at the southern end of the complex, the Cotton Mill manufactured cotton that was used to wrap crinoline wire that was used in hoop skirts. When ...
Lake Avenue/Quinsigamond Lake spans several neighborhoods in South Worcester and East Worcester. [2] Park Ave skirts the eastern edge of West Worcester. [2] The Edgemere neighborhood is primarily in neighboring Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. [2] The Arts District spans several neighborhoods in Central City. [3]
Headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts, Helen Keller, Julia Ward Howe, and Edward Everett Hale served on the first advisory board. [1] In the 1970s, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Foundation helped the organization create some of the state's first community-based residential and vocational programs for adults with developmental disabilities.
Originally known as Federal Square Plaza, the small urban park in Federal Square was renamed Francis R. Carroll Plaza in 2008. [3] [4]In 2019, a US$1.5 million reconstruction of Francis R. Carroll Plaza began as part of a US$13 million rehabilitation project to improve Main Street.
Tiki, a 20-year-old blind cat from New England, was rescued by Good Samaritans after floating on a piece of ice on a Massachusetts lake and falling in on Dec. 16, 2024. Frantic, she called ...
The Greendale Village Improvement Society Building is a historic building at 480 W. Boylston Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.Built in 1897, it is an important reminder of the role community organizations played in making civic improvements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Share of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, issued December 4, 1912. Crompton Corporation traced its origins to 1837 when founder William Crompton invented a loom for weaving patterns in cotton, an innovation that led in the 1840s to the founding of Crompton Loom Works in Worcester, Massachusetts by his son George Crompton.