Day: 01/09/2014

MISS MENDON – INSIDE AND OUT

By Marilyn Armstrong on 01/09/2014 • ( 5 )

Miss Mendon was born on the drawing board at the Worcester Dining Car Company in 1950 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Over the next 64 years, she did considerable traveling until she found her way to Mendon, the heart of New England’s Blackstone Valley. In her current incarnation,… Read More ›

DYSTOPIA DOWNSTREAM – DHALGREN, SAMUEL R. DELANEY

By Marilyn Armstrong on 01/09/2014 • ( 6 )

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Open Road Integrated Media Publication Date: January 7, 2014 In The Recombinant City, A Foreward, William Gibson says of Dhalgren: It is a literary singularity … a work of sustained conceptual daring, executed by the most remarkable prose… Read More ›

IMPERIAL CHRYSLER

By Marilyn Armstrong on 01/09/2014 • ( 8 )

We have what I believe is the world’s most interesting car dealership. On Route 16 in nearby Mendon, it began as one dealership. Chrysler. Two more have since been added. There’s also the Miss Mendon diner, a restored Worcester dining… Read More ›