A Day in the Life

Tuckerman Hall is the home of the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra and carries an important legacy historically and architecturally.

The Worcester Art Museum claims to house over 35,000 works of art, and “was among the first to exhibit and collect photographs as fine art. The photography collection has grown to over 2,000 images that span the entire history of the medium.” Alas, none of those are mine.
The museum is free on Saturday mornings, so [...]

If you board the commuter rail at Union Station, pay $6, and ride to the end of the line, you’ll end up in Boston’s South Station. Not a bad deal, especially with the holiday installation of the 448 square foot Holiday Express model train exhibit.

A copy of Michelangelo’s Moses can be found on the second floor of the soon-to-be-old Worcester Superior Court. It was given to the courthouse by the American Antiquarian Society in 1910.

A larger than life scultpture of Sigmund Freud, complete with not one but two cigars in his left breast pocket, sits on the main square at Clark University.
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Mary Elizabeth Sawyer (1806-1889) and her little lamb were born in Sterling, MA, and this sculpture on the Sterling Common memorializes the classic poem written by John Roulstone.

The weather-worn painted advertisements can still be found on quite a few of the old mill buildings of Worcester’s past. I find a kind of strange comfort in them–portals to a different time. The Heywood Boot and Shoe Company closed in 1953, according to the Worcester Historical Museum website.

On Green Street just south of the Providence and Worcester Railroad overpass, stairs leading to the second floor of Worcester’s second ugliest building (the first being the AT&T Building) provide a bit of shelter for one of the city’s approximately 3000 homeless [Statistic from WHAC]. Though the causes of homelessness are many and complex, [...]

Hadwen Arboretum is a decent chunk of land in the middle of a typical neighborhood. It belongs to Clark University, and contains a community garden near the top (south end) of the arboretum.

Renovation continues for the Grand Palace Theater at Federal Square. It was used as a movie theater but closed soon after I came to Worcester, so I’ve never been inside. Looks like it’s going to be amazing.