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In the 2013–2014 season, the
Rockport Music presented
72 in-school programs in
Rockport, Gloucester, Essex,
Salem, and Manchester school
systems. In-school programs
reach over 4,700 students.
courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum
This spring, The Cabot Performing Arts
Center, formerly known as the Cabot
Cinema, is upgrading its movie presentation
system to 4K digital cinema projection.
They may give away the old 35mm film
projector currently in the booth, or put it
in a crawl space under the balcony, where
it would join a graveyard of six other film
projectors, some of them dating to 1920.
North Shore's oldest current artist and member of the Lowell
Art Association, Edith Burger, is 104. She first started taking
lessons at the Whistler House Museum of Art in 1932.
Peabody Essex
Museum's fall
exhibition Native
Fashion Now will
include Jamie
Okuma's beaded
Louboutin boots
comprised of
thousands of
tiny beads.
The most important textile at the
American Textile History Museum in
Lowell is money. That's right. Paper money
is a textile, composed of 75 percent
cotton fiber and 25 percent linen, with silk
threads woven in for security. Ordinary
paper used in newspapers and books
is primarily made of wood pulp and
disintegrates in water. As a textile, paper
money is made to last. The average $1 bill
is in circulation for 18 months; a $100 bill
lasts an average of nine years.
IN 2013, GLOUCESTER BECAME THE FIRST COMMUNITY IN MASSACHUSETTS
TO BE GRANTED TWO CULTURAL DISTRICT DESIGNATIONS.
The Museum of Printing in North Andover houses
the last remaining master drawings for the original
Photon phototypesetter, the first commercially
successful phototypesetter, dating back to 1949.
