Mass MoCA is one of the hippest places in the entire world. This is one view of the ladies' room, which is in the cellar. Whenever I start to get depressed about the condition of the white elephant I call home, I take heart in this. A few cracks in the plaster? A bit of crumbling paint? That's art, man!Sunday, November 18, 2007
Hip Cellar
Mass MoCA is one of the hippest places in the entire world. This is one view of the ladies' room, which is in the cellar. Whenever I start to get depressed about the condition of the white elephant I call home, I take heart in this. A few cracks in the plaster? A bit of crumbling paint? That's art, man!
Hello, Steward of the Pascal Emory house. I stumbled across your 9/13/06 post while googling on local involvement in the underground railroad. The house next door to you does, indeed, have a history which I investigated 20 years ago. It was built in the early 1850's by a fugitive slave from Maryland, John Nelson Howard. Mr. Howard affiliated with John Brown during his Springfield years and was, in fact, a member of Brown's League of Gileadites, an organization of black men and women who swore an oath to protect each other from slave catchers. There was a narrow space in the attic that ran the full length of the house which was possibly used to shelter runaways. Eventually Mr. Howard retired as sexton of South Congregational Church and moved back south. The congregation of
ReplyDeleteNorth Congregational Church had been located on Main Street prior to the Salem Street location (early 1870's) and it was made up of dedicated abolitionists.
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