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  • Official Name: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Capital: Boston
  • Population: 6,349,097 (2000 U.S. Census Bureau)
  • Area: 8,257 square miles (land and water)
  • Climate: Average monthly temperatures in Boston range from 28.2° in January to 72.0° in July
  • Quick Facts
    • Massachusetts has produced half of all the Nobel Prize winners in the country
    • The State's total R&D expenditures are nearly 3 times greater than the national average
  • Major League Sports Teams
    • Baseball- Boston Red Sox
    • Football- New England Patriots
    • Hockey- Boston Bruins
    • Basketball- Boston Celtics

   
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The Glass Flowers - A Botanical Museum collection
Harvard Museum of Natural History


This unique collection of over 3,000 models was created by the glass artisans, Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph. The commission began in 1886, continued for five decades, and represents more than 830 plant species.

26 Oxford Street and at 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.


Museum of Fine Arts
Degas and the Nude
The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas from the beginning of his career in the 1850s until the end of his working life. Featuring paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculpture from Degas’s early years to the last decades of his working career.
October 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012
Degas and the Nude

Around the State
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Michael Cooper: A Sculptural Odyssey


Organized by the Museum of Craft and Design and guest curator Harold B. Nelson. This exhibition has been made possible through funding from the Windgate Charitable Foundation. Funding for related programming has been provided by the Collectors of Wood Art.
November 12, 2011 – May 13, 2012
Michael Cooper Peaches, 2004

Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, 413-298-4100
9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA 01262

Norman Rockwell Museum is dedicated to education and art appreciation inspired by the legacy of Norman Rockwell. The museum preserves, studies and communicates with a worldwide audience the life, art and spirit of Norman Rockwell in the field of illustration.
Open Daily

Norman Rockwell

Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum
35 acres of beautiful rolling woodlands and lawns, and is the largest park of its kind in New England. The Sculpture Park provides a constantly changing exhibition of large-scale, outdoor, Modern and contemporary American sculpture and site-specific installations.
Lincoln, 781-259-8355
DeCordova Sculpture Park

The Blue Man Group and Shear Madness are playing in Boston. The following are scheduled for the 2011-2012 season. See http://www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/Boston and Arts Boston for more info.
  • La Cage Aux Folles
  • American Idiot
  • The Addams Family
  • Les Misérables
  • Riverdance
  • Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
  • Mamma Mia!
  • Billy Elliot The Musical
 
 
   

20 March 1867
Massachusetts ratifies the 14th Amendment, establishing citizenship for African Americans
21 March 1673
Fort at Castle Island in the Boston Harbor burned
22 March 1765
Stamp Act passes in British Parliament
22 March 1630
The first American legislation prohibiting gambling was enacted in Boston
27 March 1884
First long-distance telephone call (from Boston to New York City)
27 March 1858
Boston City Hospital established
29 March 1930
Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup for the first time
31 March 1776
Abigail Adams pens Remember the Ladies
1 April 1845
Daily Evening Traveler commences publication
1 April 1960
Boston University field chosen as first home of the Boston Patriots football team
2 April 1868
Thomas Alva Edison begins work as a telegraph operator at the Boston office of Western Union
3 April 1822
Edward Everett Hale, minister, author and social reformer, born in Boston
4 April 1968
Riots occur in Boston after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
5 April 1764
Sugar Act passes in British Parliament
7 April 1730
John Winthrop and a group of Puritans left from England bound for New England aboard the ship Arbella
8 April 1839
Boston Hospital for the Insane approved
9 April 1969
Students for a Democratic Society seize Harvard’s University Hall in Cambridge
9 April 1969
Students for a Democratic Society seize Harvard's University Hall in Cambridge
10 April 1861
MIT incorporated in Cambridge
10 April 1879
Women first allowed to vote for the School Committee in Boston
11 April 1885
First performance of the Boston Pops at Boston Music Hall
12 April 1908
City of Chelsea destroyed by fire
13 April 1635
Town Meeting approves the Public Latin School, the country’s first public school in Boston
14 April 1742
Boston accepts the donation of a market house from Peter Faneuil
15-22 April 1919
Strike by Boston operators disrupts telephone service throughout New England
15 April 1920
Robbery and murder of the paymaster of a shoe company lead to the arrest of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
18 April 1689
Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion of New England, overthrown
18 April 1775
Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.

 
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Brief Guide To MA
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Massachusetts Knowledge Quiz


This famous Patriot was born 300 years ago in Boston. At age 16, he secretly wrote a series of witty, satirical letters signed, “Mrs. Silence Dogood” and published in his brother’s newspaper, where he worked as an apprentice. The letters charmed Boston, but when his brother learned the true identity of the author, the ill will caused him to permanently leave Boston for Philadelphia. Who was this famous American?

A. Thomas Jefferson
B. William Pitt
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Penn

In Massachusetts-speak what can be described as a sandwich or a sub baked in a pizza oven?

What book written by Robert McCloskey is honored by a series of bronze sculptures by Nancy Schoen in Boston’s Public Garden?

Test your Massachusetts wisdom with our Massachusetts Knowledge Quizzes. Score high on our latest quiz and win a discount on your next purchase. (Answers to above questions: C-Benjamin Franklin, A-grinder, and Make Way for Ducklings)

Massachusetts Language
The unusual accent of Bostonians may have originated in East Umbria, England. Here are some translations of common Massachusetts terms. For more, visit the Wicked Good Guide to Boston English.

Frappe A milkshake or malted elsewhere, here it's ice cream, milk and chocolate syrup blended together. The 'e' is silent. Despite the chocolate syrup, it actually comes in many flavors.
Badadoes- Come baked or French fried
Wicket – Means “very”, as in “wicked” good
Smoot - Unit of measure across the Harvard Bridge near MIT
Tonic - A soda
Hamburg - Goes with hot dog
Hermits - Molasses cookies.
Milkshake - Milk with some flavored syrup, but NO ice cream.

Examples of Place Name Pronunciation
Worcester – cross between wooster and wister
Gloucester- glosster
Leominster- lemunster


The Boston Citgo Sign
London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower. Boston has the CITGO sign. Ever since 1965, the CITGO sign has held a place deep in the hearts of Boston residents. Learn all about it and download a Citgo Sign screensaver. Boston Citgo Sign

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