A Day in the Life

Prize time: A 5×7 inch print from the fine arts gallery to the first person to leave a comment with the correct answer. This sculpture was given in memory of whom?

From the Worcester Business Journal:
Chevalier Furniture will be selling its 100,000-square-foot store at 48 Water St. to relocate to a smaller building in Worcester or the surrounding area. The store will close by mid-June. The building’s sale, which has yet to be completed, is to an anonymous builder. The company will find a temporary location [...]

I’ve been very busy the last three days working on the portraits of the students from the Greendale Dance Academy. I have four more sessions over the next couple of weeks. This is one of my favorites from today.

Basketball players enjoy a perfect night shooting hoops at Joe Schwartz Field in Worcester.

Members of Burncoat High School’s JROTC saber team participate in the Memorial Day celebration at Wawecus Road School yesterday.

The World War Memorial at Lincoln Square was “erected by the people of worcester in memory of the men and women of the city who gave their lives in The World War 1917-1918.” It is known as the whispering wall because you can supposedly hear someone whisper on the other end of the C-shaped wall. [...]

“This Memorial Garden is dedicated to those from the Worcester County area who have lost their lives to homicide/vehicular homicide and to the loved ones they have left behind.”
This garden is immediately south of the World War I Memorial in Lincoln Square.

The dome and minarets (one of them out of view) of the Worcester Islamic Center rises up out of the trees.

There is something reassuring in the way that nature, in the absense of human intervention, will reclaim what was taken from it. This old building on Green Street will change, whether it’s brought down by the sometimes subtle, sometimes powerful forces of nature, brought down by the wrecking ball, or restored and renewed by gentrification. [...]

A new mural on the side of a building on Water Street just north of Kelly Square paints a picture of the past yet points to what may be in the city’s future. This is an area on the verge of renewal, and it will interseting to see how much of the history of the [...]