|
The
Bay
State
Scroll
down for
communities
newspapers museums
theatre
groups
preservation
interests MASS-attractions
public
radio stations
art
centers outdoor
interests travel
The
official State of Massachusetts page
A
Tour of Massachusetts History and Trivia
Communities
in Massachusetts
Adams
Amesbury
Amherst
Andover
Arlington
has made good use of the Internet with its official
town site. They provide up-to-date reports on official meetings and
actions, local issues, agency and school information and a review of where
the town is heading for the year 2020. This attractive and easy to
use site also includes a section on Town Laws with bylaws, codes, zoning
and traffic regulations clearly spelled out for the curious.
Ashburnham
Ashby
Ashland
Attleborough
Auburn
Ayer
Barnstable
Barre
Becket
Bedford
Belchertown
Belmont
Beverly
Bolton
Boston
Bourne
Braintree
Brewster Ladies' library
Bridgewater
Brockton
Brookfield Fire Dept.
Brookline
Burlington
Cambridge
Canton
Carlisle
Chatham
Chelmsford
Chelsea
Chester
Chesterfield Hampshire Regional High
School
Chilmark
Clarksburg
Clinton
Cohasset
Concord
Dalton
Danvers
Dartmouth
Dedham
Douglas
Dover Dover Town Library
Duxbury
Easthampton
Easton
Egremont
Erving Erving
Elementary School
Everett Everett
Public Libraries
The
Millicent Library in Fairhaven
offers much more than books-it is the focus for much of what
goes on in the coastal community and its web site represents the community
on the Internet. The library offers arts exhibits, book discussions
with authors and experts on books and publishing, news on local community
events and wonderful information on the community's history. Fairhaven
was the home of oil industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers who built the
Library, High School and the Town Hall and who entertained Mark Twain in
his 85 room mansion in town and helped the author weather a financial
storm. Another fascinating story at the site is how Fairhaven and
New Bedford became Sister Cities with the Japanese community of
Tosashimizu -the story starts with a shipwreck in 1841.
The site is easy to explore
and well worth a visit, just like the community.
Fall River
Falmouth
Fitchburg
Florida
Foxborough
The Boyden Library
Framingham
Franklin
Gardner The furniture
capital of New England
Gay Head
(Aquinnah)
Georgetown
Georgetown Highway Department
Gloucester
Grafton
Great
Barrington
Greenfield
The Halifax
official web site was recently expanded to include an events calendar,
employment opportunities with the Town, seasonal festivities and opening
for volunteers on the Town's boards and committees. A good place to
start in learning about Halifax and its people.
Hampden
Hancock
Hanover
Hanson
Harvard
Harwich
Haverhill The official web
site provides detailed information on the community, how to get
things done and who's calling the shots until the next
election.
Haverhillusacom
is a commercial site-part of a much larger national web service-offering
local information, links and an advertising platform
to local, state and national businesses. Viewers will be surprised
at the number of links the site has to offer for little Haverhill.
Hingham
Hinsdale
Holbrook
Holden
Holliston
Holyoke
Hopkinton
Hubbardston
Hudson
Hull
Kingston
Lancaster
Lanesborough
Lawrence
Lee
Leicester
Lenox
Leominster
Lexington
Leyden
Lincoln
Longmeadow
Lowell
Lunenburg
Ritter Memorial Library
Lynn
Lynnfield Lynnfield
Public Library
Malden
Mansfield
Marblehead
Marlborough
Marshfield
Mashpee
Maynard
Medford
Medway Medway Public Library
Melrose
Merrimac URL corrected on 5/24-02
but the site was not working.
Middleborough
Milford
Milton
Monterey
Mount
Washington
Nantucket
Natick Home of
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Needham
New
Ashford
New Bedford
New
Marlborough
Newburyport
Newton
Norfolk Norfolk Public Library
North
Adams
Northampton
Northborough
Northbridge a private
page with local info
Northfield
Norton
Norwell
Norwood
Oakham Forbes Memorial Library
Old Deerfield Mass
Otis
Palmer Palmer
Public Library
Paxton Richards Memorial
Library
Peabody
Pembroke
Pepperell
Peru
Pittsfield
Plainville
Plymouth
Plympton
Princeton
Provincetown
Quincy The City of Presidents
Reading
Revere
Birth place of Horatio Alger, Jr.
Richmond
Rochester
Joseph H. Plumb Memorial Library
Rockland
Rutland
People first settled in what came to be called Salem
before there was a Massachusetts. With nearly four centuries of
history, there is much to this maritime community aside from the Witch
Trials that makes an online or actual visit well worth while.
Sandisfield
info provided by
Saugus
Savoy
Scituate
Seekonk Seekonk Public
Library
Sheffield
Sherborn
Shirley Hazen Memorial
Library
Shrewsbury
Shutesbury
Somerville
South Hadley South Hadley
Public Library
Southwick
Southwick Fire Official Web Site
Springfield
Stockbridge Stockbridge
Good site from the Chamber
Sudbury
Taunton Good looking
official page
Templeton Greater Gardner
Tewksbury
Tisbury
Truro Truro Public Library
Tyringham
Upton
Wakefield
Walpole
Waltham
Washington
Wayland
Wellesley
with an audio introduction
West Boylston
West Bridgewater
West Springfield
The birthplace of the Morgan horse
West
Stockbridge
West Tisbury
West Tisbury Public Library
Westborough
Westfield
Westford
Westminster
Worcester County This is
an "unofficial" site but it is chock full with regional
information, great links and has wonderful historical data to research or
simply enjoy.
Weston
Westwood
Westwood Public Library
Weymouth
Whitman
Wilbraham
Williamstown
Wilmington
Winchendon Greater Gardner
Winchester
Woburn Woburn
Public Library
Worcester
Wrentham
Yarmouth
Newspapers
in Massachusetts
Enterprise
Newspapers publishes four weekly papers covering the Upper Cape
Cod Massachusetts towns of Falmouth, Bourne, Mashpee and Sandwich
- The Falmouth Enterprise, The Bourne Enterprise, The Mashpee Enterprise
and The Sandwich Enterprise - all featured on their website.
Athol
News Serving
The Interests Of The North Quabbin Region
Sun
Chronicle
reports on Attleboro, North Attleboro and the
immediate region.
Boston
Globe
is among the online newspapers that every American should bookmark
for regular visits.
Boston
Herald
gives the Globe a fight for their money on local news.
Christian
Science Monitor
is from Boston and one of the best written papers in the country with
great international reports.
Beacon
Hill Times
from the Boston neighborhood is a weekly with good community events
and news, with a map. Interesting place in an interesting city.
The
Patriot Ledger
in Quincy is part of SouthofBoston.com. that
also puts out The
Enterprise
from Brockton and Old
Colony Memorial in
Plymouth.
Cape
Cod Chronicle
Cape
Cod Times
is a daily from Hyannis with good local news and reporting.
Also known as Cape Cod Online.
The
Herald News
is a Fall River daily. A Journal Register publication.
Sentinel
& Enterprise
servers the Greater Fitchburg area. Published by
MediaNews Group, Inc. and Mid-States Newspapers, Inc.
Gloucester
Times
is published by Essex County Newspapers. There is a good
local events listing,
The
Recorder
is a good online source for information on the Greenfield
community. It appears to be an independent publication.
The
Gazette
of Haverhill is a daily with a good, if slow loading, events
listing. Lots of very local news and features.
Eagle
Tribune has
served the communities of Lawrence and North Andover since
1868. The daily is still family owned and has a Pulitzer Prize.
Lowell:
Sun
Lynn:
Item
New
Bedford: Standard-Times
Newburyport:
News
The Hampshire
Gazette is a daily from Northampton and covers the region
Pittsfield:
Berkshire Eagle
Salem:
News
Springfield:
Union-News & Sunday Republican
The
Taunton Gazette covers the area and is well connected to a large
chain
Woburn:
Times Chronicle
The
Worcester Telegram & Gazette has good local news and links
Valley Advocate,
a weekly from Hatfield is a part of a group.
Hyannis:
Barnstable Patriot
Lancaster:
Times
Martha's
Vineyard Times
Vineyard
Gazette
Mattapoisett:
Wanderer
Nantucket
Inquirer & Mirror
Plymouth
Old Colony Memorial
Provincetown
Banner
At the tip of country.
Springfield Journal
is a weekly with real independence.
Stoneham
Independent
Wellesley
Townsman is part of the Town-on-line chain.
The Boston Phoenix
is the largest weekly serving Greater Boston.
Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly There is a lawyer or two in the Bay State
and this is what many of them read.
Amherst:
Student
Bentley
(Waltham) Vanguard
Boston
College: Heights
Boston
University Free Press
Brandies
(Waltham) Justice
Emerson
(Boston) Berkeley Beacon
The
Harvard Crimson, they even have news and some great writing
Harvard
Independent
MIT
(Cambridge) Tech
Mount
Holyoke (South Hadley) News
Northeastern
(Boston): News
Tufts Daily
is a good campus paper but they take vacations
UMass
(Amherst) Collegian
UMass-Boston
they are working on content. When last we checked, there wasn't
much.
Williams
(Williamstown): Record
Tech
News
is the campus paper from Worcester Polytechnic
Museums
in Massachusetts
The
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum was founded in 1876 in
South Hadley, Massachusetts
and is one of the oldest teaching museums in the country. The
museum has recently been renovated and expanded to house and display its
permanent collection with a primary emphasis on Asian art, 19th- and
20th-century European and American paintings and sculpture, Egyptian,
Greek, and Roman art, Medieval sculpture, early Italian Renaissance
paintings, and a collection of prints, drawings, and photographs.
The site includes thumbnail photographs, news on current exhibitions,
directions and links to associated art and museum sites.
The
Sports Museum of New England is in the
Fleet Center of Boston. They use examples of historic athletic
competitions to encourage the old fashioned values of leadership, team
spirit and cooperation among today's youth. A non profit, the site
features a tour of great moments-and the people who make them great-in New
England's athletic past.
Springfield
Library & Museums Association
represents four fine cultural centers in the region. The site
includes upcoming events, directions and membership information. For
specific information of each museum they offer links to each center as we
do here.
New
England Quilt Museum, Lowell
The Andover
Historical Society, founded in 1911, maintains a museum and research
center
The
Bostonian Society and Museum, Old State House
The Salem Witch
Museum
The Museum
of Transportation, Brookline
The Public
Health Museum in Massachusetts, Tewksbury
Kendall Whaling Museum,
Sharon
Alden Homestead Museum
The Arnold
Arboretum, Jamaica Plain (Boston)
The
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
Blackstone River Valley
National Heritage
Corridor
Boylston
Historical Society
The Harvard
University Art Museums
CAPE
ANN HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Cape Cod
Museum of Natural History, Brewster
The Charles River
Museum of Industry, Waltham
The Children's Museum,
Boston
Boston Museum of
Science
Chessterwood Museum,
Daniel French Sculptor, Stockbridge
Children's
Museum of Dartmouth
Holyoke
Heritage State Park
Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Concord
Museum
Connecticut
Valley Historical Museum, Springfield
Crane
Museum, Dalton
Danforth
Museum of Art, Framingham
Davis
Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
DeCordova Museum and
Sculpture Park. Lincoln
The Discovery
Museums, Acton
Essex
Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum
The
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Hammond Castle,
Gloucester
Hancock Shaker Village,
Pittsfield
Heritage
Plantation Americana Museums &Gardens, Sandwich
Higgins Armory Museum Worcester
The
Hull Lifesaving Museum Hull, Boston Harbor,
Lizzie Borden Bed
and Breakfast/ Museum, Fall River
Martha's
Vineyard Museums
Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art MASSMOCA, North Adams. A wonderful, new place
with a varied and frequently changed exhibits in a grand, old factory
setting.
The Massachusetts
Historical Society, Boston
Massachusetts
State House is where they made, and make, laws and history.
Mead Art Museum,
Amherst College, Amherst
MIT Museum!
American
Textile History Museum, Dutton
Memorial
Hall Museum, Deerfield
Museum of Bad Art,
Boston. They know what they don't like.
Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
Natick
Historical Society
The
Needham Children's Museum
New
Bedford Art Museum
New England Aquarium,
Boston
The New
England Pirate Museum, Salem
The Norman Rockwell Museum,
Stockbridge
Orchard
House in Concord, Massachusetts
is a historic house and museum owned and operated by the Louisa May Alcott
Memorial Association. The Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association is a
private, not-for-profit corporation, founded in 1911. The Association
provides the financial and human resources required to conduct public
tours, special programs, exhibits and the curatorial work which continue
the tradition of the Alcotts, a unique Nineteenth Century family.
Peabody Essex Museum,
Salem
Pilgrim
Hall Museum, Plymouth
Pilgrim
Monument & Provincetown Museum
Plimoth
(Plymouth) Plantation
Provincetown
Art Association and Museum
Rose Art Museum,
Brandeis University
The
Rotch-Jones-Duff House, New Bedford
Semitic
Museum, Harvard University
United States Naval
& Shipbuilding Museum Quincy
USS
Constitution Museum, Boston
Longfellow's
Wayside Inn, Sudbury
Westford
Museum
Whistler
House Museum Of Art, Lowell
Williams
College Museum of Art
Worcester Art
Museum
Preservation
and Smart Growth in Massachusetts
The
Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod
The Appalachian
Mountain Club
Allston Village
Main Streets
Boston
Main Streets
Northeast Sustainable Energy
Association
South
Boston Main Streets, Boston
Roslindale
Main Street
Springfield
Business Improvement District
Environmental
League of Massachusetts
The
Massachusetts Historical Commission
The Martha's
Vineyard Preservation Trust
The Trustees of
Reservations, is the nation's oldest statewide preservation
organization. Since 1891, they have protected over 34,000 acres in
Massachusetts, including 89 public reservations. Many of the
state's most important and ecologically significant areas rich are in
their care.
Action for Boston
Community Development (ABCD)
The Appalachian
Mountain Club
The
Massachusetts Riverways Program
Massachusetts
Audubon Society
Historic Salem, Inc
The Boston
Preservation Alliance
Massachusetts
Bicycle Coalition
Boston Cares
The Friends of
the Blue Hills, Milton
Massachusetts
Horticultural Society
Attractions
in Massachusetts
Boston
Harbor Cruises offers whale watching, harbor cruises, charters and
sight seeing in Boston Harbor, Provincetown and Block Island in Rhode
Island. The have "fast ferries" and high-speed catamarans.
.
The
Butterfly Place in Westford, Massachusetts is an indoor living
environment which has been designed for the propagation and development of
butterflies. A 3,100 sq. ft. glass atrium towers to a height of over 27
ft. and contains up to 500 butterflies representing as many as 50
different species. There is a gift shop and urge visitors not to
forget their cameras.
Breezy
Picnic Grounds Waterslides in Douglas,
Massachusetts offers family fun on the Whitins Reservoir. Enjoy swimming
in crystal-clear water, riding Alpine waterslides or try out the new
Tunnel Twister Slide. There is no limit for rides and the grounds
are fine for just relaxing.
Pirate’s
Fun Park is in the heart of
Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts. A traditional seaside amusement park, with
18 rides, including a go-kart
track and bumper boats. They've also an amusement game area.
The best place to see
Boston! Nothing can top the view of Boston from the top of John Hancock.
And nothing serves up more of the city, more breathtakingly than the John
Hancock Observatory.
Six
Flags New England, Agawam
Star*Land,
Hanover
Whalom Park
Water Wizz Waterpark,
Wareham
Yankee Fleet Whale
Watch, Gloucester
Battleship Massachusetts,
Fall River
Zoo
New England, Franklin Park Zoo, Boston and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham
New
England Aquarium, Boston
Theatre
in Massachusetts
Since 1923 the Zeiterion
Theatre has served as an important performing arts center for the
south shore communities near New Bedford, Massachusetts. They
present top-flight entertainment, composed of national and international
companies and performers, with an emphasis on education. Over half
of their schedule is devoted to participatory efforts, involving thousands
of students and teachers yearly. The theatre's history is a fine
example of a community refusing to "knock down paradise to put up a
parking lot."
Colonial
Chorus Players
in Reading, MA has been entertaining the community
since 1962. A non profit theatre group, membership is open to anyone
and they make a special effort to include children and teenagers in the
productions. Entire families are especially welcome to join, since
the skills required for a performance range from song and dance on center
stage to backroom ticket sales and clean up-just like most families.
New Repertory Theater
is an exciting professional company just outside Boston.
BERKSHIRE LYRIC
THEATRE
Algonkuin
Small Theatre Network Bringing Actors & Small Theatres together
since 1993. From Bellingham, MA they concentrate their efforts on
Connecticut, Massachusetts and surrounding area but are a great source for
seeing what is on New England's smaller stages. Despite some
unnerving pop ups, it is a fun site with good information and great
links, including us.
American
Repertory Theatre, Cambridge
Arlington
Friends of the Drama
Barre
Players, Barre
Barrington
Stage Company, Sheffield
Belmont
Dramatic Club
Berkshire
Theatre Festival, Stockbridge
Boston
Baked Theatre
Cape
Playhouse, Dennis
Centastage,
Boston
The
CENTRAL MASS REPERTORY THEATRE, Leominster
Chatham
Drama Guild
Concord
Players
Emerson
Majestic Theatre, Boston
The Footlight Club,
Jamaica Plain
Franklin
Performing Arts Company, Franklin
The
Hampshire Shakespeare Company
Hasty Pudding
Theatricals
Huntington Theatre
Company, Boston University
Industrial
Theatre, Harvard Campus
Lexington
Players, Lexington
Merrimack Repertory
Theatre, Lowell
The
MIT Community Players
The MIT
Musical Theatre Guild
Mugford
Street Players in Marblehead is an unorganized, yet highly
profession theatre company that has been entertaining and stimulating the
cerebral cavity from the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Marblehead-and
elsewhere we are told-for more than forty years. Interesting site
and refreshingly simple. Check the upcoming performances for the
latest.
New
Players Theatre Guild, Fitchburg
New
Repertory Theatre, Newton
Orpheum Theatre,
Foxborough
Peabody House
Theatre, Somerville
Pen,
Paint, & Pretzels Tufts' student theatre
Priscilla
Beach Theatre, Plymouth in a barn
Robsham
Theater Arts Center, Boston College
The Súgán
Theatre Company, Boston
Turtle Lane
Playhouse, Newton
THE VINEYARD
PLAYHOUSE, Vineyard Haven
Vokes
Players Inc, Wayland
Wakefield
Repertory Theatre, Wakefield
The
Weston Friendly Society of the Performing Arts
Williamstown
Theatre Festival
The Woods Hole
Theater Company
Worcester
County Light Opera
Worcester
Foothills Theatre Company
Zeiterion
Theatre, New Bedford
Public
Radio in Massachusetts
WUMB-FM,
Boston WUMB-FM is licensed to the University of Massachusetts with studios
at the UMass Boston Campus as the central hub for a network of four public
radio stations in Boston, Worcester, Falmouth and Orleans, Massachusetts.
Listen online
WFCR-FM
for Western New England and recently celebrated 40 years of broadcasting.
Classical, jazz and news. Listen
online
WBUR-FM
Boston's NPR news sources with a complete schedule. The station also
offers tapes requests. Boston's NPR news sources with a
complete schedule. The station also offers tapes requests.
Listen online
WGBH-FM
from Boston. The flagship for many us
in New England, there are also one or two outside of our region that find
its programming worth a buck or two. We should thank them. from
Boston. The flagship for many us in New England, there are also
one or two outside of our region that find its programming worth a buck or
two. We should thank them.
Listen
online
WUMB-FM,
Boston. licensed to the University of Massachusetts, for a network of four
public radio stations in Boston, Worcester, Falmouth and Orleans. Emphasis
on folk and acoustic music with a mix of jazz, R&B, traditional folk,
reggae, Celtic, and world music. Boston. licensed to the University of
Massachusetts, for a network of four public radio stations in Boston,
Worcester, Falmouth and Orleans. Emphasis on folk and acoustic music with
a mix of jazz, R&B, traditional folk, reggae, Celtic, and world music.
Listen online
WBPR-FM, Worcester
WBUR AM ,
W. Yarmouth W. Yarmouth
Arts
in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Cultural Council
is the official state organization for the Bay State's art community.
The Holsten
Galleries has served private collectors, corporations, architects,
designers and museums in acquiring unique glass art for more than 20
years. They represent 30 leading glass artists, including the renowned
Dale Chihuly, specializing in Chihuly's chandeliers. Among their
services, they work closely with collectors and museums on site-specific
commissions. The site includes fine photographs and a events
calendar.
The Rocky Neck Art Colony in
Gloucester, Massachusetts is said to be the oldest working art colony in
the country. Housed in the Colony is the State
of the Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden that offers an interesting
collection of work from a variety of artists. Works are in
thumbnails, that can be enlarged for easy viewing and they include a brief
biography of the artists.
Arts
on Cape Cod is a goldmine for
news on events, artists, shows and dealers of fine art on Cape Cod.
is a goldmine for news on events, artists, shows and dealers of fine art
on Cape Cod.
Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art-MASSMOCA, North
Adams-a diverse and intriguing art center in a wonderful part of the
State. Of note, a first major exhibition to examine contemporary
artists' Exploration of Games to April 2002.
Artists
and Writers of Northampton
The
Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport's
restored downtown has an art gallery from local, a restaurant, a 200 seat
performing center, a conference facility and a host of cultural events
throughout the year.
Cambridge
Art Association is a collaborative effort of
galleries and artists.
The
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston
Center for the Arts
ART
XII group of woman artists
group of woman artists
Jane
Collins Selman Fine Art, Falmouth
Tree's
Place Gallery, Orleans, Orleans
Post
Road Framers, Rowley
Outdoors
in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Campground Owners Association
Asian
Outdoors, Boston-all skill levels welcome for
fun
Blue
Hills Reservation is in Milton
Birding
in Massachusetts
Dept
of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement
Massachusetts
Campgrounds & RV Parks
Minute
Man National Historical Park is a wonderful
park in Concord
Travel
in Massachusetts
Bay
State Cruise Company has direct service between the docks of Boston
and Provincetown.
Harbor
Express provides commuters with convenient ferry service to and from
the Massachusetts South Shore to Logan Airport. They operate seven
days a week.
Massachusetts
Turnpike Authority
Massachusetts
Highway Department
|
