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, she is Miss Mendon, having begun as Miss Newport. She has been repainted, re-tiled, given … Continue reading MISS MENDON – INSIDE AND OUT
Day: 01/09/2014
DYSTOPIA DOWNSTREAM – DHALGREN, SAMUEL R. DELANEY
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 stylist to have emerged from the culture of American science fiction. I have never understood … Continue reading DYSTOPIA DOWNSTREAM – DHALGREN, SAMUEL R. DELANEY
IMPERIAL CHRYSLER
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 car. A coffee shop, gas station, outdoor grill , snack bar and gift shop. And … Continue reading IMPERIAL CHRYSLER
