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The Massachusetts Bay Colony founded a group of six towns, including Boston, Cambridge, and Roxbury. [8] For more than 200 years, Roxbury also encompassed West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. [8] Three miles south, the only land route to the capital led through Roxbury, which made the town important for both transportation and trade. [8]
The National Memorial Day Concert is a free annual concert performed on the west lawn of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., in commemoration of Memorial Day from 1989-2019 and in 2022. In 2020 and 2021, the concert was broadcast on PBS and streamed, but was not live, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) is a center in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1968 by Elma Lewis to "preserv[e] and foster the cultural arts heritage of black peoples worldwide through arts teaching, and the presentation of professional works in all fine arts disciplines."
The National Memorial Day Concert will air on Sunday, May 26, 2024 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS. Those who have access to broadcast television can check their local listings or use the PBS website to find ...
Orchard Park, also known as "Home of New Edition," was one of Boston's most notorious housing projects, located in Roxbury, Massachusetts. It is also the former home of singer Bobby Brown and New Edition members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ralph Tresvant. The 350-unit three-story brick complex was built in 1941 and was demolished in 1998 due ...
The following is a partial list of former theatres in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It includes multi-purpose public spaces that functioned at least in part as venues for theatrical performances, including vaudeville. Most venues also served at one time or another as concert halls, lecture halls, meeting spaces, etc.
CANAL FULTON − A Time to Remember: Free Memorial Day dinner and concert will be Sunday at Northwest High School’s Puffenberger Auditorium, 8580 Erie Ave. NW. Dinner begins at 6 p.m., and the ...
Named after local missionary to the Indians, John Eliot, the square was the site of the Roxbury town center after its founding in 1630. Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868, [2] [3] and John Eliot Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The square is the nucleus of Roxbury Heritage State Park, a history-themed ...