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  • Women’s Comedy Ensemble Featured at Amazing Things

    Women’s Comedy Ensemble Featured at Amazing Things

    (photo) Cheryl Perreault, Liz Appleby, Dianne Bilyak and Deborah Rocha
    Women’s Comedy ensemble: Cheryl Perreault, Liz Appleby, Dianne Bilyak and Deborah Rocha.

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Cheryl Perreault, Liz Appleby, Dianne Bilyak and Deborah Rocha came together when they met at The Mouth, a forum for women performers, poets and writers created by Liz Appleby.

    Discovering they could make each other laugh uproariously, they decided to pool their talents and create a fluid, humorous reflection of the world from their unique points of view.

    On Wednesday, November 6th, 2013, the ensemble will be featured at the Amazing Things Comedy Mique Show in a set entitled, “I’ll Give You Something to Laugh About”,  a product of their collective talents told in poems, stories and (more…)

  • Ventriloquist Kevin Driscoll Features at Amazing Things Comedy Night

    Ventriloquist Kevin Driscoll Features at Amazing Things Comedy Night

    Kevin Driscoll, Ventriloquist, Framingham MA
    Ventriloquist Kevin Driscoll featured in Amazing Things comedy show October 2nd, 2013.

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – One of the Boston area’s top ventriloquists, Kevin Driscoll, returns to his hometown, (Framingham), to headline a night of fun, comedy, music and laughs at the Amazing Comedy MIQUE Show at Amazing Things Arts Center in Downtown Framingham, Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 at 7:30pm.

    Driscoll, a techie by day, is General Manager of 1stWorks Corporation, a virtual internet company where he spends ten to twelve hours a day monitoring multiple online systems, (Kevin formerly held executive positions at Carlson Technologies, Microsystems Software and at Digital Equipment Corporation “DEC”).

    An accomplished musician, (and Berklee College of Music alum), nights (more…)

  • OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND May 2 & 3, 2009 at Framingham History Center

    FRAMINGHAM, MA — The Framingham History Center, formerly the Framingham Historical Society and Museum is having an open house on Saturday May 2nd and Sunday, May 3rd, 2009. Below are details of the activities:

    SATURDAY MAY 2nd —

    YARD SALE: 9:00 am-1:00 pm in front of Edgell Memorial Library. We have a lot of fantastic (more…)

  • Presentation:Rebuilding Lives: Miriam Van Waters

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – The Framingham History Center (formerly the Framingham Historical Society and Museum) presents Storyteller Libby Franck in: Rebuilding Lives: Miriam Van Waters and the Framingham Women’s Reformatory.

    During the 30’s & 40’s, the remarkable Dr. Van Waters developed a respected program of reform for the women sentenced to the Framingham Reformatory with mother/baby classes, a poetry club, theatre, music, nature study and preparation for parole. Her work was known by such luminaries as Eleanor Roosevelt who was photographed paying her respect at the Framingham Reformatory. After Dr. Van Waters was fired in 1949, her public hearings were front page news in every Boston paper for three months.

    Come see Libby Franck dramatize this story on Sunday, November 23 at 3:00 p.m. at St. Andrews Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 3 Maple Street, Framingham. (Directions to St. Andrew’s Church are at www.standrewsframma.org)

    Program and Refreshments free to members. Non-members $5.00 It always helps to know if you are coming so we can plan accordingly. Please RSVP to Annie Murphy at director@framinghamhistory.org. For more information on the program or joining the FHC visit www.framinghamhistory.org or call 508-872-3780

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