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  • Salute to Framingham

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Each year, the Salute to Framingham Committee honors three individuals who, over the years, have done much for Framingham’s youngsters.

    The selection of three honorees from the hundreds of very active individuals from all walks of life is a most difficult task.

    This years recipients are Patrick Dunne, Bob Jachowicz, Joan Rastini.

    Each of these individuals has made a significant difference in the lives of the youth of our town thru their volunteer efforts. The event will take place March 16 at the Sheraton Tara.

    For tickets and information call 508/872-1933 or visit www.framinghamflyers.com/Salute

  • Wallace Nutting Chest Sells for $18,700

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Decades before Martha Stewart, Wallace Nutting, whose home and office were in Framingham, held sway over popular home furnishings and taste.  Nutting’s Old America Company was located on Park St., in Downtown Framingham and produced prints, picture frames and reprodution furniture in the 1920’s-30’s.

    A leader of the Colonial Revival movement, he helped Americans rediscover and appreciate their local and historic treasures through his nostalgic photographs, travel books like “Massachusetts Beautiful” and quality reproduction colonial furniture.

    Today his works are sought after. There is a collectors society and an auctioneer, Michael Ivankovich, of Doylestown, PA, specializes in selling Nutting items.

    Ivankovich recently sold a Nutting mahogany Goddard block front chest at auction for $ 18,700. It was the third highest price ever paid for a piece of Nutting furniture. The others were a highboy for $33,000 and a Goddard desk secretary for $ 36,750.

    (For more information about Nutting, see our Wallace Nutting historic profile page).

  • Exhbition: Toward Victory: Winning World War II from Home

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – The Framingham Historical Society & Museum presents the exhibit Toward Victory: Winning World War II from Home from April 2 – Sept. 24, 2005 at the Edgell Memorial Library Building, corner of Edgell Rd. & Oak St.

    The exhibition features not only items in the museum’s collection, but also materials on loan from area residents. The exhibit includes 1940’s home furnishings to provide a sense of the WWII home. Several posters, momentoes and war souvenirs will be part of the exhibit.

    For information, call 508-872-3780 or visit www.framinghamhistory.org

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