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Art party goes virtual Annual Berkshire Art Association event runs online tonight, Page E2

Above, “Have Fun” by Jesse Tobin McCauley. At right, “Courage” by Melanie Mowinski. (BERKSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION)

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“We’ll be lighting up the peoples’ living rooms, making art accessible and raising funds for young artists. … How could we not do it?”

MARY BETH ELDRIDGE, BERKSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION BOARD PRESIDENT

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Real Art Party goes virtual Berkshire Art Association event benefits students

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“Have Fun” by Jesse Tobin McCauley. (BERKSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION)

By Cori Urban

Special to The Republican

rtists from the Berkshires and beyond are contributing 10x10-inch original works of art available for $25 each during the virtual 10x10 RAParty (Real Art Party) today.

“It’s always a fun community event that brings out the best of our local artists as well as some friendly competition from the crowd,” said Berkshire Art Association Board President Mary Beth Eldridge.

The show will include drawings, prints, textiles, photography, collages and ceramic art.

“We receive art donated by emerging, mid-career and well-established artists, many who exhibit widely and sell their work in the marketplace.

All the works are a bargain at $25,” Eldridge said.

The event will benefit Berkshire County students through, for example, Berkshire Art Association Fellowship scholarships, field trips to Berkshire educational art departments, free admission for students to the Berkshire Museum and art supplies for students and teachers.

Tickets will be selected in random order, and the bearer will be able to choose any work of art that is still in the virtual gallery. Admission to the event is free; to be a

“Fighter” by Stephanie VanBramer. (BERKSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION)

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“Courage” by Melanie Mowinski. (BERKSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION)

viewer of the 10x10 RAParty register at bit.ly/10x10RAP. The live, online event will take place in a virtual gallery that simulates the experience of being at the party. Guests will be able to walk around the gallery virtually, tour the show and view the artwork.

“People look forward to Pittsfield’s 10x10 Festival, and they love this event,” Eldridge said. “We’ll be lighting up the peoples’ living rooms, making art accessible and raising funds for young artists. … How could we not do it?”

A $25 ARTtix guarantees the

“Berkshire Woods” by Karen Carmeanwill will be among the artwork featured at the Berkshire Art Association Real Art Party tonight. (BERKSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION)

buyer a work of art. ARTtix may be purchased on the Berkshire Museum website at bit.ly/10x10RAPAuction through the night of the event.

Each ticket guarantees a work of art to be chosen.

“Work is abstract, realistic and everything in between.

We have assemblage, ceramics, sculpture, many mixed, photography and a few categories I haven’t even thought of,” Eldridge said.

Live hosts will call out the

raffle and present the festivities which begin at 6 p.m. At 6:30 p.m. there will be orientation to the virtual 10x10 RAParty and guest speakers; at 7 p.m. the raffle begins.

Among the guest speakers will be recent recipients of BAA College Fellowship Awards and board members.

The 10x10 RAParty is a collaboration of the Berkshire Art Association and Storefront Artist Project. It is being presented as part of

Event: Annual Berkshire Art Association 10×10 Real Art Party 2021 When: Today, 6 p.m.; 6:30 p.m. orientation, 7 p.m. raffle starts Where: Online, after registering, you will receive an email acknowledgement with a link to the virtual event.

Tickets: $25, available at bit.ly/10x10RAPAuction.

More information: berk shireartassociation.org

Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival coordinated by the City of Pittsfield’s Department of Cultural Development.

For more information, visit berkshireartassociation. org.

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WESTFIELD

‘Weird Art Show’ provides online exhibit for artists Gallery, contest open to all skill levels, art mediums

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By Manon Mirabelli

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any artists face limited avenues to showcase their artwork during the COVID-19 pandemic, but an online alternative has been devised by ArtWorks Westfield.

“Calling it ‘weird’ takes down expectations of fine art and makes it more accessible to anyone who wants to share their art.”

SHANNON CHIBA, ARTWORKS WESTFIELD

Abigail Gawron’s submission for the Weird Art Show online exhibit. (ARTWORK COURTESY OF ABIGAIL GAWRON)

“Just make sure the theme or subject is different, funky and weird or somewhat old.”

Entrants are asked to post their work in the virtual gallery and share the page with everyone they can on Facebook.

“The work must be your own creation and you must have the right to it to post and share,” Chiba said.

“When submitting work, please include your name, location, medium used and the dimensions of the piece, and whether or not the piece is for sale with a link to your

studio.”

While the goal is to promote local artists, the online art show is not just for professionals, but also for anyone who wants to share their talents.

Jennifer Dorgan, one of the city’s professional artists and owner of Piece of My Art studio, said she was immediately drawn to the initiative and sees it as an outlet for all creative people who create different pieces.

“I thought this was a great idea for all the artists out there who create weird work that generally doesn’t have as much of an appreciative audience as more traditional artwork,” she said. “It’s been great fun pouring over everyone’s weird art. I love it.

I chose a few of my weirdest ones that wouldn’t normally garner the interest a more conventional one of my piec-

es would.”

Meanwhile, Abigail Gawron, who graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree from Salem State University and received an excellence in photography award from

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Shannon Chiba, an artist and ArtWorks Westfield board member, launched the Facebook page 2021 Weird Art Show, which features nearly 200 images of different types of art from paintings to photography to sculptures. The virtual gallery, which is also a contest with prizes, makes it possible for artists who don’t have the ability or confidence to show their work to garner public input about their pieces, Chiba said.

“We’re looking for anything that is fantastically weird, odd, and fun,” she said.

“Calling it ‘weird’ takes down expectations of fine art and makes it more accessible to anyone who wants to share their art. ‘Weird’ can be anything that’s different and not seen anywhere else.”

Artworks’ Weird Art Show is for anyone who creates art that does not have boundaries and for those who feel their work does not fit in a formal art show.

“This show is not like anything else,” she said. “Think of pieces made of wire, resin, stone, or paper-mache. Think of caricature, painted furniture and tattoos.”

Traditional mediums are also welcome, Chiba added,

Jennifer Dorgan’s submission for the Weird Art Show online exhibit. (ARTWORK COURTESY OF JENNIFER DORGAN)

the school, is happy to have a venue to show her work and be able to post her photos online at her convenience.

“I think it’s a great outlet for both existing and emerging artists, especially those who have conflicting schedules or may not feel confident showcasing in person,” she said. “The response has been great and has definitely been uplifting, especially for artists that feel stagnant with the pandemic and haven’t been able to reach audiences like they used to.”

She added, “I know my schedule always made me feel like I was missing out on events so this has pushed me to make the time as there are no constrictions on timelines for viewing.”

The online response to her study in self portraiture has inspired Gawron to reopen her art business page linked on her profile, and she will be posting prints to her Etsy shop soon, she said.

Entries will be judged for best in show by the Board of Directors of Westfield Artworks and will be awarded $100.

“All other prizes will be awarded to artists with the most hearts and likes,” Chiba noted.

First place carries a $75 prize; second place $50; and third place $25.

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MUSIC

Philip B. Price set to release new solo album

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Singersongwriter Philip B. Price, of the Winterpills, will release a solo album, “Oceans Hiding in Oceans,” tomorrow.

Price will also be performing an album release show tomorrow at 8 p.m. (PHOTO COURTESY OF SIGNATURE SOUNDS)

control of a company owned by Scooter Braun, with whom she has battled with for years.

“Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” will include 26 songs, six of which have never been released in any form. The album is said to also include outtakes and bonus tracks.

The original, released in 2008, won Grammy Awards for best album of the year and best country album.

• Diversity is the buzzword for this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees.

With a list of names that includes everyone from Jay-Z to the Foo Fighters, votes will be cast for a wide variety of artists

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until April 30 at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame website.

Along with the two aforementioned acts, other nominees are Mary J. Blige, Rage Against the Machine, Tina Turner, LL Cool J, New York Dolls, Fela Kuti, Dionne Warwick, Iron Maiden, The Go-Gos, Carole King, Kate Bush, Devo, Chaka Khan, and Todd Rundgren.

“This remarkable ballot reflects the diversity and depth of the artists and music the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebrates,” John Sykes, the chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said in a statement.

“These nominees have left an indelible impact on the sonic landscape of the world and influenced countless artists that have followed them.”

Organizers are keeping their fingers crossed that the pandemic situation will lessen enough for a live induction ceremony in the fall.

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HILIP B. PRICE — frontman and songwriter for the band Winterpills — will release his new solo album, “Oceans Hiding In Oceans,” tomorrow.

Written and recorded at home during the pandemic, “Oceans Hiding In Oceans” is what Price describes as “an album of dire necessity.”

“I won’t lie, it was a rough time,” Price said in a statement.

As a father to a toddler, Price’s musical diet consisted of Raffi and Baby Shark for months on repeat. And it did something to his songwriting process. “And I just embraced it,” Price said. “Full on.”

This doesn’t mean the new album is full of kiddie dance tunes or simple children’s folk musings, obviously. Price added a lot more to the mix, with influences such as Dolly Parton, Elton John, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, Donovan, John Lennon all lending flavors to the melange.

The result is a typical slice of Price brilliance, which the songwriter himself both accurately and cryptically describes as “a quantum physics album, without knowing much about quantum physics.”

Price will be performing a virtual album release show for “Oceans Hiding in Oceans” to- The Mal Thursday Quintet’s new album, “If 6 Was 5,” is out now. morrow at 8 p.m. The suggested donation is $20 and it can The record also features “shake it off.” be seen at signaturesounds. renowned drummer Hunt Sales.

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Voices, Silver Jews, Sebafans by announcing the first Thursday, who now resides in doh, Lyres, and many more, rerecorded album, “Fearless,” Austin, Texas, says the album, while also booking and hosting is finished and will be released “If 6 Was 5,” is a mix of garage Northampton’s live perforin April. The pop star released mance series The Bay State rock, freakbeat, frat rock, the first single from that record, Cabaret during the mid ’90s. folk rock, and rock opera and a remake of “Love Story,” last Since 2010, he has run Chunk week. features players from three different nationwide “chapters” of Archives Recordings, specialThe new versions of both the group (New England, Pacific izing in reissues and archival album and single are slightly releases.

Northwest, and Texas). renamed, adding a parenthetical “(Taylor’s Version)” added The New England chapter For more details, check out includes such local notables so fans know which edition malthursday.com. as Brian T. Marchese, Frank they’re getting. The older ediPadellaro and Greg Saulmon.

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WEST SPRINGFIELD

Storrowton Village offers small group tours Storrowton Village Museum has resumed limited operations with its small group tours. As part of the STEAM tour, participants will make a ring out of a nail in the blacksmith shop.

STEAM tours bridge gap between early industrialization, high-tech world

By Keith O’Connor

Tuesday through Friday at 11 a.m., Storrowton Village offers Storrowton Village Museum a 3 p.m. tour focused entirely on science, technology, engineerhas resumed limited operation with its small group tours, ing, art and math. Additional providing a safe, socially-disSTEAM tours are available at tanced, mask-wearing, educa1 p.m. this week during school tional experiences for visitors of vacation, as well as in April. all ages.

“It’s an opportunity for kids General museum tours focus who are learning remotely or on 18th and 19th New England being home-schooled to get out history, as well as the life and of the house after a day of learning and participate in some fun, work of museum founder hands-on activities, and for Helen O. Storrow. In addition SEE STORROWTON, PAGE E12 to general museum tours, held Special to The Republican

HOLYOKE

HCC faculty art featured in online exhibition The Taber Art Gallery at Holyoke Community College is presenting a virtual exhibition of original art by members of the college’s visual art faculty.

The exhibition can be viewed online through the end of the spring semester.

“Holyoke Community College is fortunate to have a rich variety of highly creative and dedicated visual art faculty members,” said Amy Johnquest,

Taber Gallery coordinator. “While we look forward to a time when we can once again safely exhibit on campus, we hope this fabulous selection of work will whet people’s appetites for the live and in-person faculty show we’re planning for the Taber Gallery in 2022.”

Contributing faculty members include: Alix Hegeler (painting, printmaking); Benj Gleeksman (graphics); Bill Devine (drawing); Christopher Willingham (drawing); Cynthia Ludlam (drawing, 3D design); Douglas Breault (drawing, 2D design); Felice Caivano (3D design); Joe Saphire (digital studio, photography); John Calhoun (2D design, drawing); Lahri Bond (illustration, 2D design); Margie Rothermich (2D and 3D design; drawing, ceramics, sculpture); Tara Conant (photography); and Vance Chatel (graphics).

The art show can be viewed at hcc. edu/taber-faculty21.

The virtual exhibition is arranged by first name alphabetically and features up to five selections from each contributing full- and part-time faculty “Help is Here,” an acrylic and marker on paper by Benj Gleeksman, is one of member.

The Taber Gallery made its first forthe visual arts faculty works the Taber ay into virtual exhibitions last spring Art Gallery at Holyoke Community with its 2020 student art exhibition, College is exhibiting online through which can still be viewed online at the end of the spring semester.

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“London Walls,” by Alix Hegeler, is one of the visual arts faculty works the Taber Art Gallery at Holyoke Community College is exhibiting online through the end of the spring semester. (HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE PHOTO)

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“The arts are incredibly important during this strange time of social distancing,” Johnquest said. “Art can

act as a transport to bring you beyond the walls of confinement. Art can be a conduit to push you to think beyond your thinking. Art can provide comfort and inspire creativity. It can bring us together when we must remain physically apart. Although our campus has been shut down, the Taber Gallery is fortunate to be able to continue exhibitions online. We look forward to a future when we can safely reopen our physical space. Till then, enjoy these virtual galleries.”

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MOVIES / TV ONLINE STREAMING

‘Barb and Star’ leads new releases

By Michael O’Sullivan

because this Josh Greenbaum-helmed project lacks the “Barb and Star Go to Vista magic touch of “Bridesmaids” Del Mar” has, on paper, great director Paul Feig and producer Judd Apatow. Playing nerdy, DNA. Written by and starring Kristen Wiig and Annie 40-something Midwesterners Mumolo, the Oscar-nominated – Mumolo’s Barb is a widow, writing team behind the hilar- Wiig’s Star a divorcée – the ious 2011 “Bridesmaids,” the headliners generate few laughs movie boasts a supporting cast after landing at the titular seaside resort in Florida for a fling that includes Jamie Dornan, after getting fired. That fling Damon Wayans Jr., Vanessa Bayer, Phyllis Smith and Wendi involves both protagonists having sex, though not at the same McLendon-Covey. And the time, with Dornan’s character. opening scene is very funny, in a delightfully surreal way: A He’s the henchman/lover of a supervillain (Wiig again, but chubby newspaper boy (Reyn almost unrecognizable) who Doi) rides his bicycle down a suburban street while lip-sync- plans to enact revenge for a ing, flamboyantly, to Barbra childhood slight by unleashing Streisand and Barry Gibb’s lethal mosquitoes during a seafood-themed beauty pageant.

“Guilty.” Sublime. But what (Don’t ask.) With the exception a mishmash the rest of the of Dornan – who, it should be movie turns out to be, mostly Washington Post

A scene from “Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream.” (KIMSTIM FILMS)

Kristen Wiig, left, and Annie Mumolo star in “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.” (CATE CAMERON / LIONSGATE)

noted, is no comedian – most of the supporting actors have blink-and-you’ll-miss-them parts. In addition to the silly, “Austin Powers”-like plot, there are many incongruous ingredients that add nothing: a couple of musical numbers; a talking crab named Morgan Freemond (“spelled with a d,” he notes); and a joke about the erogenous appeal of Mr. Peanut. Long after the memory of that wonderfully eccentric opening scene has faded, “Barb and Star” starts to seem less surreal than perplexingly random. PG-13. Available on Amazon Prime. Contains crude sexual material, drug use and some strong language. 106 minutes.

Also streaming For “Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream,” French filmmaker Frank Beauvais assembled short film clips from more than 400 movies he watched over four months, after a breakup. The Hollywood Reporter asks: “Is it an avant-garde autobiography?

A faux found-footage film? A melancholic ode to cinema, especially B-movies and rare horror flicks from the 1970s?”

The answer is: “All of those and then some.” Unrated.

Available at afisilver.afi.com.

In French with subtitles. 75 minutes.

A Queens delivery man (Dean Imperial) takes a job

laying cables for the financial industry in the sci-fi mystery “Lapsis.” Variety writes: “This tale of a floundering gig-economy worker straddles both the bleak present-tense reality of Ken Loach’s ‘Sorry We Missed You’ and the subversive near-future political satire of Boots Riley’s ‘Sorry to Bother You’ while arriving at a whimsical critique all its own.” Unrated. Available at afisilver.afi.com. 104 minutes.

The Mexican drama “Leona” centers on the romance between a Jewish woman (Naian González Norvind, who also co-wrote the screenplay) and a Gentile (Chris-

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DVD RELEASES

‘Lovecraft Country’ a gory response to decades of racist sci-fi “Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season”: Adapted from the 2016 novel of the same name by Matt Ruff, the hit HBO series created

by Misha Green follows Korean War vet Atticus “Tic” Freeman (Jonathan Majors) and photographer Letitia “Leti” Lewis (Jurnee Smollett) as the pair team up with the former’s uncle, George (Courtney B. Vance), while facing the horrors of a Jim Crow-era U.S. road trip for the Black travelers

in search of Atticus’ father. The hit HBO series was nominated for two SAG Awards, including outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series, and a Golden Globe nod for best television series (drama).

The series blends horror elements and stories by influential fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, and the racism Lovecraft and other writers brought to the genre.

“The blunt catharsis in ‘Lovecraft Country’ comes through derring-do and ultraviolent fantasy. The novel and the HBO series both derive their punch from car-crashing the real 1950s into an alternate-universe, many tentacled variation on recent history,” wrote Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips in his review.

“Lovecraft’s racism is widely documented. Green, as producer and screenwriter, working with a versatile

team of fellow writers, slyly subverts Lovecraft’s terror of The Other, in the form of Black America.”

Also new on DVD “A Call to Spy”: Winston Churchill orders the UK’s spy agency to train women as the Nazis attempt to gain control of France.

“Archenemy”: A teen (Skylan Brooks) believes a man (Joe ManganSEE DVD, PAGE E7

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Get your theater fix with online productions

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By Adrienne Gaffney

New York Times

n another time, the highly anticipated spring season of Broadway would be beginning. Performers would be dropping their scripts, fans would be planning their show schedules and reviewers would be sharpening their pencils.

Sadly, Broadway and many theaters around the world are in the longest pause in history, but an effort to keep the industry alive has major stars taking to the virtual stage and much-lauded past productions available for streaming. These productions can’t compare with the energy of a full theater, but what they make up in accessibility is something that can’t be underestimated. The theater community is experiencing a devastating loss right now, but its ability to innovate, invent and continue to create joy gives great hope for what will return.

‘Medea’ The startling exclusion of Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” from the Golden Globe nominations

has only drawn more attention to the once-in-a-generation talent of the performer, director and writer.

Among the current streaming offerings of the National Theatre in London is its 2014 production of “Medea,” which stars Coel as the nurse to Helen McCrory’s title character in the Michaela Coel celebrated story of a wife’s revenge on her straying husband. The production also features an intense score from Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp, the pairing behind the musical duo Goldfrapp. Available to stream for three days for $9.99. ntathome.com/ products/medea ‘25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love’ If your kids think “Hamilton” was the first musical to transcend the genre, introduce them to the 1996 cult success that ran for over a decade. New York Theatre Workshop’s annual gala will celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Rent” with a virtual concert that brings together an impressive assemblage of the show’s original cast, including Idina Menzel, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jesse L. Martin and Anthony Rapp. They’ll be

portray Frederick Douglass in a stirring one-man performance. The transcendent “Hadestown” star also wrote the show, which explores the achievements and ingenuity of the abolitionist leader, as well as the darkness and horror that he experienced.

The program comes after Flushing Town Hall’s “Divine Sass: A Tribute to the Music, Life and Legacy of Sarah Vaughan” from Lillias White on Feb. ‘Elaine Stritch at Liberty’ 18. All performances are free. Feb. 26, The streaming service BroadwayHD 7 p.m. ET, flushingtownhall.org/ has hundreds of live performances black-history-trilogy-iii (available for a monthly fee of $9 or ‘An Evening With Ali Stroker $100 for the year). But a particular From Enlow Recital Hall’ gem in the mix is Elaine Stritch’s Ali Stroker, who dazzled in the 2019 raucous 2001 autobiographical show, revival of “Oklahoma!,” winning a which combines stories about her best featured actress unique life with some of her most Tony for the role adored songs, most notably “The of Ado Annie, will Ladies Who Lunch” from “Company.” appear on the stage This bio show, which was filmed at of Kean University London’s Old Vic in 2002, recounts in New Jersey for her Broadway victories, as well as a night filled with her struggle with alcoholism and classics from the her many rocky romances. Watch at Great American broadwayhd.com/movies/AWAli Stroker 2GxBd-px3F9–4Aqe1K Songbook. Stroker, the first person who uses a wheelchair ‘Frederick Douglass: Mine to win a Tony, will sing favorites from Eyes Have Seen the Glory’ Stephen Sondheim, Carole King, RodAs part of Black History Trilogy, gers and Hammerstein and Lin-Manuel Miranda during the livestreamed a series of virtual productions from event. Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $25, Flushing Town Hall in Queens, 2019 kean.universitytickets.com Tony winner André De Shields will joined by an all-star lineup of “Rent” fans including Neil Patrick Harris, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Billy Porter and Jeremy O. Harris. The program will also honor “Rent” creator Jonathan Larson, who died at 35 on the morning of the show’s first performance.

March 2, 8 p.m. ET, and available to stream until March 6. Tickets begin at $25.nytw.org

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iello) who says he’s a superhero from another universe but has lost his powers.

“Bordertown Season 2”: Kari Sorjonen (Ville Virtanen) crosses the border to investigate a double murder.

In Finnish and Russian.

“Fear of Rain”: A girl living with schizophrenia (Madison Iseman) must determine what’s real and what’s not as she suspects a neighbor has kidnapped a child.

“Harley Quinn: The Complete Second Season”: As the animated series kicks off its second season, Harley (voiced by Kaley Cuoco) struggles to retain control of

Courtney B. Vance, Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett appear in a scene from HBO’s “Lovecraft Country.”

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New Gotham.

“Horizon Line”: Exes (Alexander Dreymon and Al-

lison Williams) on a flight to a destination wedding fight to survive after their pilot

dies of a heart attack.

“Random Acts of Violence”: Comic book writers discover a disturbing link between their work and real-life events. Stars Jesse Williams, Jordana Brewster and Jay Baruchel.

“Riviera: Season 1”: After a newlywed’s (Julia Stiles) billionaire husband dies in a yacht explosion, she begins to investigate the murky secrets surrounding their wealth.

“The Swordsman”: Three swordsmen at various stages of their lives meet. Stars Jang Hyuk, Man-sik Jeong and Angelina Danilova. In Korean.

“The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee”: Disgraced comedian (Paul Hogan) attempts to redeem himself before being knighted.

Out on Digital HD “Monster Hunter”: Based on the video game of the same name, a lieutenant (Milla Jovovich) and her team fight to survive after being transported to a fantastical world.

“Rock Camp”: Documentary follows camp goers who pay to play with their rock musician idols.

“Tomato Red: Blood Money”: A drifter (Jake Weary) makes a splash in a small town. Also stars Julia Garner and, Anna Friel.

“Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA”: Documentary follows actress’ effort to compel NASA to recruit Black, Asian and Latino scientists, engineers and astronauts.

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DINE & WINE

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White Lion’s IPAs part of winning lineup

UST LIKE IN BASEball, a single, a double and a triple were all hits last weekend.

Of course, baseball hasn’t started yet; what I’m talking about is a lineup of White Lion beers I had over a few days: an IPA, a double IPA and a triple IPA. The downtown Springfield brewery has really expanded its roster over the past few years, so it was time for me to play catch-up thanks to owner Ray Berry and brewer Mike Yates. (Don’t worry, this entire column won’t have baseball references. But maybe just a few.)

The double IPA, named Lion’s Galaxy, worried me a bit at first. As regular readers may recall, I recently said I have had more than my fill of New England-style IPAs, and this beer poured very cloudy like one. But fortunately, it didn’t have too much of the

White Lion Brewing Co.’s Galaxy is a double IPA that offers plenty to cheer about. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN)

tongue-coating aspect that NEIPAs often have. And even more fortunately, it was delicious. The citrus notes hit your nose right away, accompanied by a solid malt note, but in the flavor profile, they seem to come in the back door

(or maybe a side door), again with enough malt to balance the whole operation.

Don’t get me wrong, the juiciness is right there and there is plenty of it, but it is preceded by (or maybe accompanied by) a drier note

that keeps the brew from becoming too sloppy with the fruit aspects.

The triple IPA had similar characteristics, but is less juicy (and is labeled as an NEIPA).

It’s also super sneaky as the alcohol (10.2) is hardly evident at all in the flavor. It also featured Vic Secret, a tasty Australian hop variety. Not sure what’s going on Down Under, but I have never met a hop from Australasia that I didn’t love. (My favorite is New Zealand’s Nelson Sauvin.)

The triple’s name is Casual Acquaintance, and I’d say that is an apt moniker: You should probably only hang around with this character occasionally as that alcohol will sneak up on you. It would be easy to quaff a few of these and get caught off-guard.

The regular (single?) IPA (named Fresh & Fierce) was labeled an NEIPA, but it definitely was one of the best I’ve

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had in that style. So maybe I have to back off a bit from my tirade a few weeks ago. (But there are still too many, proportionally, filling the shelves in stores.)

Anyway, this beer is lip-smacking good with mango notes drizzled with a lemon zest aspect.

All in all, an all-star showing. (And for real baseball fans, pitchers and catchers can start reporting this week.)

Cheers, and play ball!

Restaurant chains using digital platforms for orders, payments

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RIVEN BY PANdemic-fueled sales growth in takeout and delivery, the development of so-called “digital platforms” seems to have become a restaurant industry imperative. Most major chains already have such digital platforms, and those that don’t are scrambling to roll them out.

Loosely defined, a “digital platform” is the ability to accept customer orders and payment remotely via the internet. Digital platforms usually involve a smartphone app linked to a debit or credit card; most such platforms also incorporate a loyalty program that encourages frequent use.

In the last few weeks, several major industry players have stepped up their digital

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platform development.

Miami-based Burger King has begun a multi-city test of a new loyalty program, Royal Perks. Customers earn 10 “crowns” for every dollar spent on BK’s digital platform; those crowns can be redeemed for menu freebies.

McDonald’s Corp. is also testing a loyalty program of

Getting customers to download an app and keep it on their device is a challenge, and the cost of managing a loyalty program can sometimes exceed any benefits the sponsoring company garners from it. its own, MyMcDonalds. In addition to earning points for purchases that can later be redeemed for free menu items, the MyMcDonalds program is said to provide enhanced ordering functionality for those

Customers ordering Popeyes’ new Cajun Flounder sandwich using the chain’s digital platform app can purchase “insurance” that, should the customer not like the sandwich, he or she could claim a free chicken sandwich as a replacement.

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using it.

An increasingly common characteristic of digital platforms is a deal available only within the platform. Dunkin’, the coffee-and-donut chain, regularly promotes free coffee

days that only users of its digital platform loyalty program, DD Perks, can access. This month Taco Bell has rolled out a limited-time-offer, the Build Your Own Cravings

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How to read a Spanish wine label

N GENERAL, MANY wine labels on Spanish wines make sense.

Often, you’ll find the name of the grape used to make the wine.

You’ll also often find the name of the region where the wine comes from in Spain.

Many of the labels are simple, sleek and elegant.

But every once in a while, some Spanish winemakers throw a curveball.

That’s why I purposely set out this week to find one of the more challenging Spanish wine labels – one of those labels that can be as perplexing as anything you’ll find in France’s Burgundy region, a Brunello from Italy or the Mount Everest of challenging wine labels, Germany.

This week’s wine comes from Rioja, one of the best known and most respected wine regions in Spain. Let me add that most Spanish wine labels are not as complicated or intricate as this Rioja. So hopefully you’ll be able to make sense of any Spanish label you encounter in a store or anywhere else in the future.

And like the French and Italian wine labels I wrote about earlier this year, I’ll start from the top of the bottle and work our way down to the bottom, line by line. Hope you enjoy.

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ant information can be found in small print near the bottom of the label.

Bodegas Faustino is name of the winery. (“Bodegas” is Spanish for “winery.”)

Oyon is the name of the town where the winery is located in Spain.

Rioja is the name of the wine region.

As for Alavesa, that’s the name of the subregion in Rioja where this winery is located.

There are three wine subregions in Rioja. Based on location, they are Rioja Alavesa, Rioja Alta and Rioja Oriental (which means Eastern Rioja).

As for Espana, any soccer fan knows, that’s the name of the country that won the men’s World Cup in 2010 and which makes some of the best wines in the world.

Cheers!

Wine Press by Ken Ross appears on Masslive.com every Monday and in The Republican’s weekend section every Thursday.

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2 years in bottle before being sold • Gran Reserva: Wines that have been aged 2 years in oak and 3 years in bottle before being sold.

Red Wine Rioja Denominacion De Origen Calificada: Printed twice on the label for extra emphasis on each side of the portrait of Nicolaes Van Bambeeck painted by Rembrandt van Rijn, this line simply means it’s a red wine from Spain’s Rioja region.

The second part of this line (“Denominacion De Origen Calificada” means “Qualified Denomination of Origin” in Spanish) refers to the classification system used in Spain based on where the wine is from and the quality of the wine. “CalifiLearn how to read a Spanish cada” (“qualified” in Spanish) wine label. (KEN ROSS PHOTO) is the most important word on this line. This word means this particular wine is of the highest MORE ONLINE quality in Spain. Some winemakers use the abbreviation See other articles in for this particular classification the “how to read a wine label” series online at – DOCa. So if you see DOCa on MassLive.com: a Spanish wine label, expect the best, highest quality wine.

• How to read a French Tinto Gran Reserva: There’s wine label often a lot of repetition on • How to read an Italian many wine labels. The same is wine label true with this particular wine.

As explained above, “tinto” “Gran Reserva” is Spanish means red and “Gran Reserva” for “great reserve.” Pay close indicates how long this Rioja attention to words like this on wine was aged before it was Spanish wine labels, particular- sold.

1964 Faustino I Tinto ly ones from Rioja. Spain has Faustino I: Faustino is the Gran Reserva strict rules about what certain name of the winery and also, in Rioja Tinto 1964 Gran Res- wines can be called based on this particular case, the name erva: This is the first line on the how many years the wine has of the wine. The roman numerfirst label (there are two labels been aged in barrel and in bot- al one after Faustino means tle before being sold. Rioja has this is the best wine made by on the front of the wine) near four different classifications the top of the bottle.

Faustino. This particular win“Rioja Tinto” simply means for its red and white wines. The ery puts roman numerals one “red Rioja” in Spanish, mean(I) through seven (VII) on its classifications are slightly different for red and white wines, wines to indicate the age (and ing this is a red wine from so let’s simply stick to red wines quality) of the grapes used to Spain’s Rioja region.

1964 is the vintage for this since we’re dealing with a red make the wine. The lower the wine, meaning the grapes wine this week. number, the older the grapes were grown and harvested • Rioja (previously “Vino and the higher the quality of this particular year. This is a Joven”): Wines that have been the wine. very old, empty bottle that’s aged no more than 15 months, Bodegas Faustino, Oyon been rattling around my house no oak aging.

(Rioja – Alavesa) Espana: for a while. Let me add that • Crianza: Wines that have You’ll need a magnifying glass 1964 was the first vintage for been aged 1 year in oak and 1 if you’re my age (ancient) to this particular wine. So if you year in bottle before being sold read the bottom line on this eye have seen one that’s older, it’s • Reserva: Wines that have chart. But like many French a fake. been aged 1 year in oak and wines, some the most import-

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Box, that is exclusive to digital platform customers.

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen recently added a new wrinkle to this trend as it rolled out a new Cajun Flounder Sandwich. Customers ordering the sandwich using the chain’s digital platform app could, for an additional dime, purchase “insurance” that, should the customer not like the flounder sandwich, he or she could claim a free chicken sandwich as a replacement.

There are downsides to these digital platforms. Getting customers to download an app and keep it on their device is a challenge, and the cost of managing a loyalty program can sometimes exceed any benefits the sponsoring company garners from it.

Expect, however, to see increasingly spirited efforts aimed at getting customers to use digital platforms to order and pay for their dining experience.

Galaxy Restaurant, located at 60 Main St. in Easthampton, operates on an exclusively to-go basis with contactless pickup available Wednesday through Saturday evenings from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN)

and Mardi Gras specialties; this week is “Julia Child Week,” with hot offerings to include beef bourguignon, sole bonne femme, and coq au vin.

A standard part of each week’s hot-to-go selections is a family-friendly version of the Inn’s Thanksgiving Dinner. Sized to serve four, it includes turkey, cornbread-sausage stuffing, mashed potato, butternut squash, pan gravy, and cranberry sauce. An apple Side dishes pie for dessert is also included • Like many hospitality in the package price. venues across the region, the Orders for Bake Shoppe Publick House Historic Inn “Hot Take Out Dinners” can in Sturbridge has restructured be placed by calling 508-347its operations this winter, clos- 7323, ext. 255. Advance notice ing down its a la carte dining is requested to allow adequate rooms through March. preparation time.

The Publick House has kept its retail Bake Shoppe, which • The Ancient Order of is located at the ground floor Hibernians of Hampden and of the Publick House complex, Hampshire Counties, in conjunction with the Log Cabin open on a daily basis from 8 Banquet and Meetinghouse a.m. to 7 p.m. In addition to in Holyoke, are sponsoring an producing a comprehensive “Irish Night in Holyoke a Goassortment of baked goods, the Bake Shoppe is doing dou- go” event. ble duty as the pickup point Scheduled for March 6, the for takeout meals prepared in menu will include a traditional the Inn’s kitchen. corned beef and cabbage dinner with sides of hash, carrots, Cold selections being stocked there include single potatoes, and brown bread. portions of the Inn’s signature Dessert will also be included. roasted turkey dinner as well Pickup times for the to-go as comfort food favorites like meal will be from 11 a.m. to 2 pot roast, meat loaf, chicken p.m. at the Log Cabin Banquet potpie, and shepherd’s pie. and Meetinghouse in Holyoke.

Supplementing these “heat- The cost is $25 per person and at-home” meals, a weekly includes one entry in a 50/50 “pop-up” list of hot, readyraffle. to-serve meals is available For reservations contact Joe Tuesday through Saturday O’Connor at 413-627-7148 or evenings from 4 p.m. to 6:30 Fran Hennessey at 413-785p.m. Early February “pop ups” 5687. Reservations close on were themed around German Feb. 27.

• Casey Douglass, the owner of Galaxy Restaurant in Easthampton, continues to operate his establishment on an exclusively to-go basis.

Contactless pickup of menu items is available Wednesday through Saturday evenings from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Each evening’s menu is customized, but entree options typically include a dinner sandwich, braised short ribs, lamb shank, a fried chicken dinner, and an inventive vegetarian option.

Small plates such as fried Brussels sprouts and duck gravy poutine are usually on the daily agenda, as are salads, soups, and several housemade dessert choices. Beer, wine, and cocktails can be ordered as well.

Online ordering is available at galaxy413.com; the restaurant answers at 413-203-2011.

• The Meeting House in Longmeadow is offering a deal for those with a craving

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for some socially-distanced “me time.” Every Thursday, appetizers on the restaurant’s menu are half-priced from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Typical selections available include skillet chicken meatballs, crispy Brussels sprouts with pancetta and bread crumbs, and the restaurant’s “house” wings.

The offer is for dine-in only; more information on the appetizer special (and the rest of the Meeting House’s current activities) can be had by calling 413-754-3607.

• Mel’s Restaurant in Holyoke, which up until the end of January had been operating as takeout only, has reopened its dining rooms on a socially distanced basis each Friday through Sunday from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m.

The restaurant is welcoming back dine-in patrons with traditional Italian American favorites such as spaghetti and meatballs, chicken parmigiana, and veal marsala. Comfort food classics like hamburg steak and baked stuffed scrod are available as well.

Reservations are encouraged but not required. The restaurant answers at 413-5321477.

Night menu. Sundays are Log Rollng’s Family Roast Nights. All menu selections are complete meals, and can be ordered to serve one, two, four, or six people.

The Steak Night menu, for instance, includes a choice of a Gorgonzola filet or prime rib au jus, while Sunday Night Roast meals feature roast chicken, pork loin, or turkey breast.

Orders can be placed online either early in the week or on the weekend day delivery is desired. Go to LogRolling VirtualRestaurant.com for more information.

• Villa Napoletana in East Longmeadow continues to offer its Family Bundle Menu.

Items on the menu, which is designed for curbside pickup, are sized to serve four to five people, and each meal package includes bread and a house salad.

Main dish choices include Villa Napoletana favorites like pasta Napoletana, shrimp Mediterranean, lasagna Bolognese, roasted chicken with onions, and Gorgonzola-crusted beef medallions.

Also featured are the restaurant’s customizable pasta buckets. They can be ordered • Log Rolling, the catering with one of three pastas – spaghetti, rigatoni, or angel division of the Log Cabin-Delaney Group in Holyhair – and a sauce/topping oke, has begun operating a combination such as meatdelivery-only “virtual restau- balls, sausage, primavera, or rant.” Operating Friday, Satur- carbonara. Bucket packs of day, and Sunday evenings, Log stuffed shells or manicotti are Rolling Virtual Restaurant available as well. specializes in bringing dinner The curbside pickup menu to your doorstep. lists add-ons such as an antipasto Napoletana appetizer Friday evenings are Pasta and desserts – tiramisu, canNight, while on Saturday the noli, cheesecake, and more. service focuses on a Steak Call 413-732-9300 for additional details or to place an order.

Villa Napoletana is open daily from 3 to 11 p.m. and also serves brunch on Sundays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Delivery is available through several third-party services.

Villa Napoletana in East Longmeadow continues to offer its Family Bundle Menu, which are sized to serve four to five people. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN FILE PHOTO)

Hugh Robert is a faculty member in Holyoke Community College’s hospitality and culinary arts program and has nearly 45 years of restaurant and educational experience.

Robert can be reached online at OffTheMenuGuy@aol.com.

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Frances McDormand is perfect in ‘Nomadland’

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By Moira Macdonald

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atching Frances McDormand in a movie is like watching someone you know, an old friend, maybe someone who knew you when you were a kid, someone with whom you can feel completely at ease.

She’s the kind of actor who seems to bring home with her, and therefore she’s perfect as Fern in Chloé Zhao’s wondrous “Nomadland”: This is a character for whom home isn’t a place, but something you carry.

Like Zhao’s previous film “The Rider,” “Nomadland” has a haunting, dreamlike quality; also like “The Rider,” its drama takes place in the face and voice of its main character, who’s figuring out a new kind of life. Fern,

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people, without much money, who’ve chosen - or had chosen for them, when the social safety net fails - an alternative way of life. We watch Fern in her various jobs, in Amazon warehouses and tired restaurant kitchens and rest-stop bathrooms; she’s focused, hardworking, content. (“I like work,” she matter-of-factly tells a caseworker.) This is a woman of remarkable strength, making a new plan on the fly after her Frances McDormand appears in a scene from “Nomadland.”

(SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES VIA AP) old life floated away.

Zhao shows us the difficulty of this life see her briefly floating blissfully, seems - the endless laundromats, the cramped a recent widow, leaves her longtime to suit her. home in rural Nevada, in a former bed in the van, the cold, the possessions “Nomadland,” based on a nonfiction left behind - but also its beauty and company town that’s now an empty freedom. I wished I could have seen shell after the plant that employed Fern book by journalist Jessica Bruder, is “Nomadland” on a theater screen, primarily about Fern’s journey, but and her husband closed years ago. She to see the horizons and pale-peach becomes a nomad, living in her van and we also meet a host of other people sunrises stretching endlessly in Joshua finding seasonal work when and where in similar straits, many of whom are James Richards’ beautiful cinematogshe can, discovering the American West played by nonactors who are themalong the way. She’s not homeless, Fern selves nomads. (Watch, though, for the raphy. And I wished I could have seen corrects an acquaintance - she’s house- great David Strathairn as a gentle loner McDormand’s face as big as a house, who’s drawn to Fern.) It’s a movie about looking wonderingly outward, finding less. And she’s not particularly unhappy; drifting, like in the lake where we people who are often invisible; older possibility.

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tian Vazquez). According to Remezcla, the film transcends the premise of the main plot “to ask questions about migration, belonging and love.”

Unrated. Available at afisilver. afi.com and virtualavalon. org. In Spanish with subtitles.

94 minutes.

Directed by Sam Pollard (“MLK/FBI”), “Black Art: In the Absence of Light” revisits “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” a pioneering 1976 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art curated by African American artist and scholar David Driskell, who passed away last year. According to

Susan Bro in “The Reunited States.” (DARK STAR PICTURES)

Art News, the film, which includes interviews with several of today’s most exciting Black artists, is a “call to create more documentaries looking at the work of Black

artists – as well as Indigenous, U.S. Latinx, and Asian American ones. This should only be just the beginning.”

TV-MA. Available on HBO Max. 85 minutes.

Executive-produced by Van Jones and Meghan McCain, the documentary “The Reunited States” focuses on people who are trying to heal political division. Subjects include Susan Bro, the mother of civil rights activist Heather Heyer, who was killed during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville; and David and Erin Leaverton, Republicans who drove around the country seeking to learn about people they disagreed with.

Unrated. Available on various streaming services. 84 minutes.

“Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in her Own Words” is a documentary portrait of the late Supreme Court associate justice, featuring interviews with Ginsburg and those who knew her. Unrated. Available

at themiracletheatre.com and virtualavalon.org; available March 9 on-demand. 90 minutes.

In “Saint Maud,” a pious hospice nurse (Morfydd Clark) in a British seaside town becomes obsessed with saving the soul of an ailing dancer and choreographer under her care (Jennifer Ehle). The New York Times says: “Folding sexual arousal and religious ecstasy into a single, gasping sensation, ‘Saint Maud,’ the feature debut of the director Rose Glass, burrows into the mind of a lonely young woman and finds psycho-horror gold.” R. Available on Epix. Contains disturbing and violent material, sexuality and strong language.

84 minutes.

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IF YOU GO Event: Storrowton Village Museum Tours When: Museum tours: Tue.-Fri., 11 a.m., through May 28. STEAM tours: Tue.-Fri., 3 p.m., through May 28; and 1 p.m. today and tomorrow for school vacation week.

Where: Storrowton Village Museum, 1305 Memorial Ave., West Springfield Admission: General museum tours are $8 per person and STEAM tours are $12 per person with a discounted rate of $6 for parents/chaperones.

Buy tickets in advance at storrowtonvillage.com/ tickets.

More information: storrowtonvillage.com

from open-hearth cooking to more modern appliances, to talking about electrical lighting and tie it in with making a candle, which at one time were used to light the home,” she added.

Fontaine noted the blacksmith shop is a popular stop for young and old alike.

While they are on a STEAM tour, participants will make a ring out of a nail by bending it in a vice, and learning how smithing has changed from then to now.

General museum tours are $8 per person and STEAM tours are $12 per person with a discounted rate of $6 for parents/chaperones, however, parent/chaperone admission does not include activities. Parent/chaperone rate is only valid along with a minimum of one STEAM tour admission at the $12 rate. There is no charge for children under six for general museum and STEAM tours.

Children must be accompanied by an adult for all tours.

All tickets must be purchased by 4 p.m. on the day prior at storrowtonvillage.com/ tickets.

Additional tour dates and times, including weekends, can be accommodated by contacting the Museum.

Follow the museum on Facebook and Instagram and sign up for the email newsletter at storrowtonvillage.com.

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STEAM tours – geared to ages 6-12 but open to others – provide an opportunity to share New England history through the lens of other disciplines and fields that people don’t often connect with history museums. The special tour aims to bridge the early days of American industrialization and the fast-paced, tech-heavy world that we live in now.

Visitors will learn about innovations used in each of the unique buildings in the museum – including the Phillips House, Union Meeting House, North Center School, Clark Blacksmith Shop, Potter Mansion, Gilbert Farmstead and Eddy Law Office – and engage in three hands-on activities throughout the tour. Activities, which will vary by season and the availability of supplies, will include: mini catapults, sun prints, kaleidoscopes, drop spindles, beeswax candles, paper corn husk dolls, harmonicas, sundials, and more.

STEAM education, which is gaining popularity in schools across the country, is a philosophy of education that is based on creativity and innovation. An interdisciplinary approach to learning, STEAM education is based on project-based and problem-based learning designed to prepare students to succeed in today’s world as innovators and leaders contributing to our future in the 21st century.

“STEAM education is a popular theme in schools right now ... It’s a great way to include hands-on learning in class, and we wanted to recreate that experience at the museum,” Fontaine said.

“An important part of what we do here at Storrowton Village Museum is not just talking about the 19th century, but how far we have come today ... in the kitchen

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