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At Somerset Historical Society, a stroll through history in each room
SOMERSET — The everyday is so present that it’s hard to keep the past in focus. In addition to supplying a couple hours of summer entertainment for you and the kids, area historical societies provide a means to refocus yourself from the demands of the present to the story of the past, of who we are, who we were, how we lived, and how we arrived in the present.If you visit the Somerset Historical… → Read More
At Fall River Public Library, kids get a read on summer
One of the ways to mark the passing of time in the city is with the kickoff to the public library’s Summer Reading program.It kicked off Monday → Read More
After parade success, Fall River creators of Tomb of the Unknown Soldier model have sights on D.C.
The original Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is in Arlington National Cemetery. The Fall River version is a model, built from wood by Antonio Taylor and Dennis Lawton, and it goes to patriotic parades. → Read More
Freetown historical museum offers impressive collection of artifacts
The property holds eight buildings, including a museum, a circa 1905 chapel, a carriage shed, a sawmill, a country store, a one-room school house and a home that once housed freed slaves. Every building is crammed with objects, with artifacts, with memories, with history. → Read More
With water ban over, Fall River splash pads are place to beat the heat
Monday, as the temperature rose, and the sidewalks got too hot to walk on in bare feet, the splash pads got water again as the conservation order was lifted as a short-term pump system was put in place over the weekend as repairs to the permanent pumps take place. Initially, the ban was supposed to last for weeks. → Read More
Free summer lunch program gets started in Fall River parks
Anyone 18 or younger is welcome. Lunches are served between 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., depending on the site. Lunches must be eaten on site. Activities begin before lunch at 11 a.m. → Read More
Westport history comes alive at Handy House
If, as they tell us, learning is a lifelong experience, then there’s no reason why kids (and adults) can’t learn during school vacation.Oh, no one is suggesting you turn the living room into a classroom, and start tormenting your kids with pop quizzes about the periodic table of elements, but it isn’t all that hard to mix a little learning with a lot of fun, and to do it locally, without… → Read More
Journey tribute band brings the rock to Fall River waterfront
The Great Escape, a Journey tribute band, had no desire to escape Saturday night as hundreds of people sat on the ground at Heritage State Park, enjoying music provided by the park and St. Anne’s Federal Credit Union. → Read More
Catching up with James Perry, Mr. Fall River and international juggler
FLL RIVER -- It’s called “roly-poly,” which is the performer’s slang for a board with a ball underneath it. You put one of your feet on each end of the board, and you juggle as you balance.Which is not easy, though 90-year-old James Perry, a local boy from County Street, spent a living doing that very thing, along with a variety of acrobatics.You get to Perry’s apartment in the Oliveira… → Read More
Stories from Fall River's mills: Child labor, hellish conditions, jobs and spindles galore
Minders. Winders. Weavers. Doffers. Mule spinner operators. Ring spinner operators. The job titles come at us from another world, that barefoot non-English speaking Fall River of the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the big, elephant gray mills shook with the thunder of the Industrial Revolution.David Jennings, local historian, presented a bit of that world Wednesday at the Heritage State… → Read More
'You are welcome here': Little Compton church revamp aims to make building more accessible
The first thing question you ask yourself when you walk through the doors of the United Congregational Church in Little Compton is, “Where’s the church?”As it turns out, the church part of this fine old New England building is up a flight of stairs.It was raised in 1871, so that rooms could be added underneath. Thirty years before, they put in the first organ, in 1840.How old is this… → Read More
They came to Fall River for a better life, but still find prejudice
The demographic change in Fall River isn’t just a set of percentages. It’s people. Individuals. People living lives. → Read More
There's more to road striping than meets the eye
Editor's note: This story is one in an occasional series in which we take a look at unusual occupations.It’s hot out on the asphalt, but not as hot → Read More
Former Gov. Cellucci's name goes on this greatest accomplishment, a Westport traffic circle
The purpose of Friday’s event was to honor the late Gov. Paul Cellucci, who improved portions of Rt. 88 after a series of fatal head-on collisions in the early 1990s. → Read More
LIVIN' AND DION: Pinching pennies in the Dion administration
Let’s say I ran for mayor of Fall River.OK, stop shaking all over. I’m not going to run. I will accept any municipal no-show/no-work job I’m offered if it pays at least $50,000 a year, but I’m not going to run for mayor.Ah, but if I did. And I’d be the perfect mayor.Why?Because I’m cheap. I’m not “good with money,” I’m not “careful,” I’m not “frugal.”I’m cheap.I save my change in a → Read More
Side Streets: On the front line of the Battle of Fall River
Revolutionary War re-enactors took over Heritage State Park last weekend, costumed as British, Colonial, and French troops, re-enacting the Battle of Fall River, when brave city residents drove off an attacking British force. → Read More
Fall River's Griffin Park makeover complete
The tin merry-go-round is gone, but on Friday, the city unveiled the new Griffin Park, rehabbed at a cost of $300,000, boasting benches, new basketball courts and a new set of playground equipment. → Read More
Joe Fontaine recalls memories of a brother lost to war in Vietnam
They are everywhere.They are those who lost a son, a daughter, a father, a sister, or some other loved one in a war.There are those among us who still → Read More
On 50th anniversary of Monsignor Prevost fire, alumni share beloved memories of school
Fall River is full of people who graduated from schools that no longer exist, from Ste. Anne’s grade school to Sacred Heart Academy.And Monsignor Prevost, a high school that never had more than 63 students in any one graduating class, but which left big memories.“Mine was 63 graduates,” said Roland Masse, Prevost ’64.Masse, Paul Berube and Paul Dumas are three Prevost grads. Dumas, who lives in… → Read More
Monsignor Prevost High School's proud history
In a way, Monsignor Prevost High School began and ended in fire.When it was opened in 1927, it wasn’t yet a high school. The first high school class wouldn’t graduate until 1938.Notre Dame Church had 10,000 parishioners in 1925, most of them praying in French. The church was built in 1895, and the school - for the lower grades - in 1927.Twenty-three boys would graduate in 1938. The school, run… → Read More