Kept safe in US, Iraqi royal statue heads home – MassArt professor helped in recovery
By Farah Stockman – Globe Staff / September 7, 2010

WASHINGTON — It took four men to lift the wooden box in the lobby of the Iraqi Embassy. They carried it gingerly to the waiting truck, then loaded it into the belly of a commercial plane. Hours after President Obama announced the end of US combat operations in Iraq last week, one of that country’s most precious artifacts — the statue of an ancient king — began its journey home to Baghdad.

In a saga that reads like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie, the 4,400-year-old statue of King Entemena was stolen from Iraq’s national museum in 2003, during widespread looting in the early days of the US invasion. It then moved through an underworld of black-market art dealers until it was recovered in a 2006 US sting operation, with help from a professor of antiquities in Boston.

Then, for four more years, it sat in a glass case at Iraq’s embassy in Washington, waiting for Baghdad to be safe enough for its return. It is expected to arrive later this week, the final chapter in a tale of the anarchy of war and the fragile promise of peace.

“Now he’s going back where he belongs,’’ said John Russell, a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, who was hired by the State Department to help preserve Iraq’s ancient art. Russell verified Entemena’s authenticity for US officials.

Hey, students, here’s the lowdown on Beantown
By Tenley Woodman/Boston Herald – September 7, 2010

Attention, college students and other newcomers to the Hub – there’s more to understanding Boston than watching “The Departed” or “Good Will Hunting.”

Here, it’s tonic, not soda or pop. There are four seasons:Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics.

And the underground transit system isn’t the subway, it’s the T.

Visit Fenway Park: This is a must. Whether you like the Red Sox or not, Fenway is a piece of history and source of Boston pride. It’s the oldest Major League Baseball park still in use, and catching a game here is a rite of passage for locals. 4 Yawkey Way, Boston.

To take a tour, call 617-226-6666, or go to mlb.mlb.com/bos/ballpark/tour.jsp.
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Check out Avenue of the Arts: The intersection of Huntington and Massachusetts avenues starts what was once known as the Avenue of the Arts. This stretch of real estate is home to institutions such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Fine Arts.

HuffPost ranks BU as one of 11 strictest colleges
By Meaghan Beatley/BU Daily Free Press – Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Boston is known for having some of the most prestigious universities in the country, but according to The Huffington Post, it’s also home to one of strictest in Boston University.

BU was listed by the website as one of the 11 ‘strictest colleges’ in the United States in early July, citing its “zero tolerance policy for parties in residence halls” as the reason for its selection.

BU outlines its policies, ranging from drug and alcohol consumption to moped ownership, in the Lifebook located on the BU website.

According to the Lifebook, BU’s alcohol policy accords itself with state laws. However, “the University’s standards of personal conduct substantially exceed the minimum expectations of civil law and custom,” the website states.

Stem cell work in limbo awaiting court’s decision – Ruling on temporary stay may come today
By John A. Hawkinson/The Tech NEWS EDITOR – September 7, 2010

Many stem cell researchers have been left uncertain about their own future and the future of their field as they wait for a federal judge to decide whether to allow the NIH to fund human embryonic stem cell research, within and without of its walls.

A recent federal court injunction barred NIH labs from performing human embryonic stem cell research, and also stopped the NIH from funding grants that supported such research. The judge is currently considering an emergency stay which would temporarily allow the NIH to continue its research and to continue funding research.

The NIH has interpreted the court order to bar work with any human embryonic stem cell lines, but the plaintiffs in the case say they only meant to roll back the additional stem cell lines allowed by the Obama administration in 2009. Those plaintiffs, James L. Sherley and Theresa Deisher, said in a court filing Friday night that the Court’s ban does not apply to research approved under the Bush administration’s stem cell guidelines in 2001.

[James L. Sherley, a former MIT professor, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the NIH to halt federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.]

Wedding went swimmingly
By Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein – Globe Staff / September 7, 2010

North Shore-bred Olympian Jenny Thompson, who’s now an anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, got married over the weekend to Daniel Cumpelik, a co-owner of RadonSeal, his family’s business. The wedding took place at Hammond Castle in Gloucester. The couple will honeymoon in Zanzibar.
Tattoos on view
Illustrated bodies flocked to the Sheraton over the weekend for the Boston Tattoo Convention, an orgy of ink-related entertainment. Personalities of note at the festivities included Manny Ramirez, who stopped by to see the body art when his game was rained out on Friday, renowned tattoo artist Natan Alexander, and MTV personalities Evan Starkman and Kenny Santucci, who showed off their fashion line, Suck Yeah, with their partner Brett Nimphius. Hamilton’s own Emilee Fitzpatrick of “The Real World: Cancun’’ served as emcee during the weekend.

1533 – Elizabeth I is born in Greenwich, England.  More anniversaries.

by John Kelly

On August 31, 2010, at around 2 PM, I became overheated while talking to a construction worker on Museum Road. I crossed the street, and requested that guards at the Museum give me some ice water. They gave me a few small plastic cups of ice water, and poured some over my head and neck, but shortly said that they had no more access to ice. After repeated additional requests did not get me any ice water, I consented to have them call 911.

I was overheated, because as a quadriplegic with a spinal cord injury (I drive a power wheelchair with a sip/puff tube), my body does not regulate its temperature. My body does not sweat according to its cooling needs. I have encountered this issue a number of times over my 25 years as a quadriplegic, and every single time, copious amounts of ice water has restored my body temperature to normal. I’ve never before been to the emergency room because of overheating.

My mistake in this case was thinking that Boston city EMTs arriving at the scene in the middle of a citywide heat advisory would make sure that I got all the ice water I needed.

Because I was so hot, I felt weak and had trouble speaking with any volume. So when the EMTs arrived at about 2:45 PM, I had already been rehearsing my request for assistance. When the first EMT came up, I said “Sir, I am very overheated, I need to drink ice water and get an ice pack on my neck. Could you please stay with me until my temperature returns to normal?” He ignored my urgent question, rather casually asking, “Why do you think you are warm?” I repeated my request for water, and began to get desperate. In my desperation, I could not understand why they would not give me ice water.

The EMTs also ignored my request to have my temperature taken, as that would’ve assisted me greatly in understanding my physical situation.

I continued to request icewater, more and more anxiously, but the EMTs would only say that they could transport me to the hospital.

I finally asked the second EMT, point blank, “are you refusing to give me water?” He replied “we’re not refusing to give you water, but we can take you to the hospital.”  In hopes of getting some ice water, I agreed to go to the hospital with them.

On the ambulance, the first EMT (who stayed in the back of the ambulance with me) was sarcastic and cruel.. He ignored my requests for water. With great difficulty, I told him my name, address, and social security number, When he continued to ask me paperwork questions, I told him that it was too difficult to talk without water, but I could give that information at the hospital.

After one request for water, he answered harshly “we don’t have any water.”

He put an electronic thermometer into my ear without telling me what he was doing, and after a few attempts on both ears, said maliciously, “you’re not hot, you’re just warm.” But the machine didn’t work, and I saw him taking out and playing with the batteries.

He gave me only one ice pack under my neck, and gave me one more when I  begged for one. (Emergency room staff put ice packs everywhere possible.)

When the EMTs arrived at BMC emergency room, they brought me in to the admitting area just outside the treatment area.. The EMTs continued to refuse to give me water. They said that “the doctor will decide when he sees you.”

Then I overheard the first EMT talking about me on the telephone. I heard him say  “he kept asking for water but we didn’t give it to him, because he’d been sitting out in the sun without sunscreen.” I heard him say “I asked him why he thinks he’s hot and he looks at me like <indiscernible>.” Then later, “he’s got a little anger problem.” I also heard him say something about “not even wearing a hat.”

After about 10 minutes, the EMTs pushed the stretcher into the emergency treatment area, and transferred me into a bed. They did not ask me how best to do it, nor did they announce when they were doing it. They do not transfer my legs correctly, such that the lower legs hit the side of the bed and were still hanging off the bed. Without comment, one of them threw my legs up on the bed.

Because my blood pressure was increasing, I asked the first EMT if he could raise the back of my bed. He did this. I asked him “can you please remove my binder?” He ignored me. Then I tried again, still having had no water, “I have an abdominal binder on my belly, if you release it will help my blood pressure.” Then he responded “what binder?”  I said it was around my belly. He undid it.

The EMTs did not tell me that they had made a diagnosis. As the MFA guard named Elizabeth told my helper Matt on the telephone at 3 PM, I was “extremely dehydrated.” I never said that I was dehydrated, and the EMTs never asked me if I could be dehydrated.

I was not dehydrated. I was overheated… (Unfortunately, the emergency room staff adopted the same erroneous diagnosis, and rushed to treat me for dehydration rather than overheating.)

I believe the first EMT was so hostile to me because I told him directly what I needed; then, when he would not help me, I lost my temper and shouted for water. The EMT became offended. Even though I felt sicker and sicker, I apologized, saying “I am sorry, but when I get overheated, I get cranky. ”

I have heard that EMTs are taught to listen to the patient, as the patient may well know both the problem and solution. These EMTs cruelly and I think vengefully refused to give me water, gave me minimal treatment for overheating, and continued to offer no assistance at the hospital during the time they were responsible for me. The first EMT condescended dramatically towards me, even as he was flirting ostentatiously with a female hospital staffer. (He called her “princess”).

I finally got my first sip of icewater at 3:35 PM (I requested the exact time from the nurse giving me the water), almost an hour after I came under the care of Boston EMS.

John Kelly lives in the East Fenway.

Designing a legacy – Celebrated African-American architectural team helped shape city
By Meghan E. Irons – Globe Staff / August 22, 2010

Their designs are part of the fabric of Boston — they can be seen in the new police headquarters, the Ruggles T station, Roxbury Community College, the Southwest Corridor.

But there is much more to the 40-year legacy of Donald Stull and David Lee, nationally praised and one of the first African-American architectural teams in the country.

Stull and Lee were tops in their field in the 1960s, and forces for change in one of Boston’s most tumultuous eras. With major projects in neighborhoods like Roxbury, they are credited with helping to unify neighborhoods and redraw a city that had been socially and racially divided.

Now that they are aging — Stull is 73 and Lee is 66 — they want to pass on their work to the next generations, and it is a legacy that Northeastern University wants to help preserve.

The university, which has collections from other black Boston trailblazers, recently acquired 1,400 tubes and boxes containing their sketches, designs, and drawings, and it plans to apply for a grant to hire staff to sift through the papers and archive them.

Turner issues appeal for witnesses at trial
Political Circuit – August 22, 2010

Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is taking his criminal defense to the people.

Literally.

Turner sent a note to supporters last week and placed ads in community newspapers looking for witnesses who would be willing to testify at his trial, which is scheduled to begin Oct. 12 in US District Court in Boston. He is accused of accepting a $1,000 bribe and lying to the FBI.

“My lawyers plan to put on the stand those who can testify regarding help received from me and whether money ever stood between their needs and my service,’’ Turner wrote in the note.

The Letter

Incoming college freshmen face lessons in handling credit, staying out of debt
By Michelle Singletary – Washington Post / August 22, 2010

Entering freshmen at colleges across the country will be the first class of regular semester students to face credit card restrictions under the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009.

If you are under 21, to open a credit card account you will need to either show you have the income to make payments or get a cosigner 21 or older who has the ability to do so.

Credit card companies are prohibited from marketing credit within 1,000 feet of a college campus. This limit would include related college events. Companies are also banned from offering certain “tangible’’ gifts.

But I wonder how successful the Credit CARD Act will be. There will be locations near a campus that will give credit marketers a chance to pitch to students. The companies may not be able to offer a free T-shirt or stuffed animal, but they can entice students with discounts, reward points, or promotional credit terms, according to final rules released by the Federal Reserve.

And I’m sure there are plenty of parents who are convinced that their kid needs to establish credit. So they will be all too willing to cosign. By the way, the Federal Reserve says that anyone 21 or older can cosign. This means it’s possible that older siblings or even friends may be persuaded to cosign. But no one should ever do this.

Divine Dixie – Bullock Brothers and Hot Tamale Brass Band come together
By Andrew Gilbert – Globe Correspondent / August 22, 2010

As befits a tradition dedicated to sharing a timeless message, the lifespan of a gospel ensemble is often measured in decades and generations rather than years. But even by gospel’s temporally expansive standard, the Bullock Brothers represent a triumph of familial harmony.

Founded in 1950, the soul-stirring vocal ensemble starts celebrating six decades of spreading the good word at the MFA on Friday as part of a double bill with the Hot Tamale Brass Band. Tickets for a 60th anniversary party Oct. 9 at Lombardo’s in Randolph went on sale last Sunday.

With two founding members still on board, Rev. George Bullock and his older brother Rev. Richard Bullock, the group provides a vital bridge to gospel’s golden age, when African-American sacred music produced a current so powerful that it transformed American popular culture, providing rock ’n’ roll, soul, and R&B with an essential jolt.

“What we have planned for the 60th is a lot of oldies but goodies,’’ says George Bullock, 75, who composes most of the group’s original material. “We’re always adding new songs, and old pieces sometimes fall by the wayside. Some of our children who grew up listening to those songs started asking to hear them, so I made a list of songs we hadn’t sung for years and we performed them at our church last month. But with any of our songs, old or new, you know it’s the Bullock Brothers when you hear them.’’

You can’t fight City Hall, but you can marry there – Hall-marked weddings
By Renee Nadeau Algarin/Boston Herald – August 22, 2010

City Hall’s stark, concrete walls may not stir thoughts of romance, but for some, the government building has become a little white chapel.

Last year alone, more than 1,000 couples said their “I do’s” at Boston City Hall, city clerk Rosaria Salerno said.

“It’s their very brief moment and it ought to create an environment in which they can really appreciate each other’s commitment,” the clerk said. She presides over ceremonies in her sixth-floor office, with dark wood furniture, reddish-orange accents and a view of “that terrible, distressed concrete” of the building’s exterior walls.

Devika Dammanna, 30, and husband Venkateshwar, 34, of Boston held a Hindu wedding ceremony last year but officially wed at City Hall on July 22. Despite the grim, bureaucratic surroundings, love was in the air.

“It was just a legal aspect we needed to take care of, but I ended up shedding a few tears,” Devika Dammanna said.

Salerno, who said her busiest wedding days are Mondays and Fridays, takes a little time to speak with each couple to personalize the ceremony, which centers around the themes of commitment and a love that grows.

[Rosaria Salerno lives in the East Fenway. - ed]

565 – St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.  More anniversaries.

For many at Fenway, he’s now a candidate for Hall of Shame
By Marissa Lang and David Abel – Globe Correspondent And Globe Staff / August 20, 2010

There was no doubt in Kenny Doyle’s mind about what should happen to Roger Clemens.

“When I heard about the indictment today, I thought it was awesome,’’ Doyle, 61, said as he stood in line with his three children and grandchildren outside Fenway last night. “If he’s proven guilty, he should absolutely do the time.’’

His grandson, Kenny Doyle III, 12, felt the same about the six-count federal indictment announced yesterday alleging Clemens lied and committed perjury by denying he had used steroids or human growth hormone.

“I hate people who use steroids,’’ the younger Doyle said, clutching his mitt. “It takes away from the real people, who should own all the records.’’

It was hard to find anyone around Fenway Park yesterday who didn’t have a similar opinion about the pitcher who made his Major League Baseball debut with the Red Sox in 1984 and became one of the team’s greatest pitchers, before earning fans’ ire by defecting to Toronto for the 1997 season, and then to the Yankees.

Man charged with disorderly conduct after Fenway arrest
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff – August 19, 2010

A Randolph man was arrested at Fenway Park Wednesday night after he allegedly directed racial epithets at a security guard and harassed a woman who refused to sit with him at a table, police said.

Boston police said in a statement that Eric C. Englehart, 41, was arrested shortly after 8 p.m. and charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and resisting arrest.

Englehart allegedly began “berating and verbally abusing” a female fan who refused to sit with him, the statement said, and later pulled his pants down when security approached. Security personnel told police that he had been removed from a game a few months ago for similar behavior, according to the statement.

Vintage Boston, no postage necessary
By Sydney Lupkin – Globe Correspondent / August 20, 2010

A vintage car rolls over cobblestones on School Street as crowds peruse storefronts shaded with candy-striped awnings. Trolleys cut through Copley Square as a family waits to cross the street in front of Trinity Church, its red roof soaring above surrounding buildings. The Red Sox, wearing white caps, warm up on the field at Fenway Park as crowds fill bleachers

These iconic images from Boston’s past are among more than 200 postcards from the early 1900s displayed on three walls in the Johnson Lobby at the Boston Public Library. Some are originals; others replicas. A map on one wall depicts Boston landmarks next to cards illustrating them. Another wall chronicles, in cards, the evolution of Copley Square.

“It’s special,’’ Peter Larsen said yesterday as he stood transfixed before the Copley wall, taking in the history of his neighborhood.

US conducts antiterrorism drill at MIT – Theft of radioactive material is feared
By Bryan Bender – Globe Staff / August 20, 2010

WASHINGTON — US counterterrorism officials held an exercise at MIT yesterday to better prepare local authorities to respond to the potential theft of radioactive material, part of a series of security enhancements federal officials are putting in place at facilities across the region that are considered vulnerable to terrorists seeking weapons of mass destruction.

Led by the Department of Energy and the FBI, the exercise involved a fictitious scenario in which terrorists tried to steal cobalt, a highly radioactive substance that is used in hospitals to irradiate blood, but could also be used to make a so-called dirty bomb to spread deadly radiation. The exercise included officials from MIT’s police force, the medical community, Cambridge police, Massachusetts State Police, and fire officials.

The exercise was not announced publicly. Officials would not say whether they encountered specific problems.

Students urged to use care on Esplanade – Police issue alert about attacks on women at night
By Travis Andersen – Globe Staff / August 20, 2010

Authorities are urging city residents and incoming college students to be alert on the Charles River Esplanade, especially at night, following a series of sexual assaults that have occurred there during the summer since 2007.

Boston and State Police have assigned detectives to the case and are “committed to sharing information’’ with Suffolk County prosecutors, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel F. Conley. Police say they believe all of the assaults were committed by the same man.

In a joint statement, Conley and police administrators said four women attacked along the Esplanade and other locations since 2006 gave the same description of the assailant, that of a bald, clean-shaven black male in his mid-20s to mid-30s between 5 feet 8 and 5 feet 10 inches tall with a large build.

The first attack on the Esplanade occurred on June 16, 2007, when a 20-year-old woman was raped while jogging near the Massachusetts Avenue bridge. A second 20-year-old female was abducted at knifepoint the following month on Beacon Street and forced to walk to the Esplanade, where she was raped and robbed, authorities said.

Licensing chief thinks pub where man died can use glass
By Jack Nicas – Globe Correspondent / August 20, 2010

The head of the city’s Licensing Board said yesterday that the Lansdowne Street bar where a man was killed by a broken beer mug last week will retain its liquor license and that the board will support the pub’s right to use glassware.

The Lansdowne Pub stopped using glassware and glass bottles this week at the request of a different licensing department, which could still ban glass permanently at the bar during a hearing next month. At the bar early Saturday morning, Hector Guardiola, 25, of South Boston, allegedly threw a glass that shattered and fatally injured Michael DiMaria, 23, a New York man.

“I will not be asking them to go to plastic,’’ said Michael Connolly, chairman of the Boston Licensing Board, which governs liquor licenses and can ban glass at bars. “This is an establishment with a good record that had an incredible freak accident . . . and at the moment I certainly don’t see their [liquor] license in jeopardy.’’

Earlier this week, Patricia Malone — Boston’s director of consumer affairs and licensing, who governs entertainment licenses — asked the bar to switch to plastic cups and nonglass bottles until the hearing with her Sept. 15. She declined yesterday to comment whether she would permanently ban glass at the bar.

On menu: ‘Food people love to eat’ – Also, hot-pot eatery, book on hospitality
By Donna Goodison / Turning the Tables/August 20, 2010

Chef Tim Partridge, who devoted the last year and a half to spending time with his little girl, catering and “laying low” until the right opportunity came along, is excited to be back in his own restaurant’s kitchen.

Partridge is now wearing two hats as general manager and executive chef of Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, set to open next week at 604 Columbus Ave. in Boston. It’s the spot most remembered as restaurateur Darryl Settles’ Bob’s Southern Bistro and the former longtime Bob the Chef’s.

Partridge has partnered with building owner Settles in the new restaurant and neighborhood bar, which will serve a regional American menu. Formerly at the East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Partridge owned Perdix in the South End and was last with the Back Bay Restaurant Group’s Atlantic Fish Co. and Bouchee in the Back Bay.

Two men rescued from Charles River
NECN.com – Aug 20, 2010 5:20am

Two men are alive this morning — thanks to an overnight rescue from the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.

They were pulled from the water just before 3:00 a.m. near the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge.

Dive teams tell NECN it was two young men in their 20s, who were in the water for about 20 minutes. Both seemed to be OK, but were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital as a precaution.

Another local blog, courtesy of Universal Hub – The Bottom Line

1882 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.  More anniversaries.

(CNN) — Wyclef Jean will announce exclusively on CNN’s “Larry King Live” Thursday night that he intends to run for president of Haiti, a source close to the Haitian-American recording artist said Tuesday.

For the rest of this story, go here.

Jean, an apparent renaissance man, took courses at Berklee College of Music during the just ended academic year.

MIT graduate admits link in leak case – Says he met, exchanged e-mails with private accused of providing records, but denies role
By David Abel – Globe Staff / August 1, 2010

A recent MIT graduate acknowledged yesterday that he met and exchanged multiple e-mails with the Army private accused of providing thousands of classified war records to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, but he adamantly denied any role in the massive intelligence leak.

The 23-year-old graduate, who spoke on condition that his name not be published, said investigators from the US Army Criminal Investigations Division interviewed him several months ago to find out whether he or others in the local computer hacker community helped the primary suspect in the leaks, Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning.

The Army arrested Manning in May and later charged him with providing a classified video of a US helicopter attack and more than 150,000 classified diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. Military officials have also identified him as the chief suspect in last month’s disclosure of more than 90,000 classified documents from the Afghan war to the website.

“I categorically deny that I had any role in helping Manning leak anything,’’ the former student said in a phone interview. He said he met Manning at MIT in January, when the private was on leave, and later exchanged as many as 10 e-mails with him about security issues.

“I did not help him or know about it before it happened,’’ he said.

From UniversalHub:  The feds return to Cambridge

A Boston photographer’s journey through time
By Arthur Pollock/Boston Herald – August 1, 2010

If scrapbookers ever need inspiration, they should see the new “Nicholas Nixon: Family Album” photography exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. It’s a celebration of family life, featuring more than 70 black-and-white photographs by the Boston-based artist.

The tour de force of the show is a series of photos entitled “The Brown Sisters.” It started innocently enough with a family portrait of Nixon’s wife, Bebe, and her sisters one summer back in 1975.

The next summer the sisters requested another group portrait,and he got the idea to do a similar pose of them, always in the same order, every year. For 35 years, each summer the sisters have indulged him.

Their collaboration has created a sweeping look at one close-knit family through the years, evoking themes of relationships, the passing of time and inevitably, mortality. This summer’s portrait will be added to the gallery sometime during the exhibition’s run.

Creative confusion in contemporary art exhibit at MFA
By Chris Bergeron/DAILY NEWS STAFF – Aug 01, 2010

BOSTON — For curator and connoisseur Clifford S. Ackley, contemporary art begins in the 1960s.

To make his point, he’s organized seemingly unrelated work by 22 established, emerging and lesser-known artists into an exciting exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts.

“Some people may think contemporary art begins in the 1980s,” said the chair of the museum’s Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. “But I’ve been around a long time and I still think contemporary art begins in the 1960s.”

Ackley has organized “New Works: Prints, Drawings and Collages” entirely from works acquired by the MFA as purchase, gifts or bequests over the past six years. Curatorial Research Fellow Patrick Murphy worked with him on the show.

“New Works” will be shown through May 1, 2011 in the Clementine Haas Michel Brown Gallery.

From UniversalHub:  Making a big splash in the Charles – about Harry Houdini

1619 – First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.  More anniversaries.