A Day in the Life has come full circle, ending with a Nigerian dance performed by the Igwebuike Women’s Dancing Group of Worcester during First Night 2007.
Thanks for your comments and support for this project which consumed a significant part of my own life the last 365 days. I’ll be posting a wrap up commentary in a few days, followed by a couple of weeks off. Though A Day in the Life of Worcester is now complete, stay tuned for a series of new projects in the upcoming weeks. Thanks again for a fun year, and I hope you have a very happy new year.
The 
If you board the commuter rail at Union Station, pay $6, and ride to the end of the line, you’ll end up in Boston’s South Station. Not a bad deal, especially with the holiday installation of the 448 square foot Holiday Express model train exhibit.
A copy of Michelangelo’s Moses can be found on the second floor of the soon-to-be-old Worcester Superior Court. It was given to the courthouse by the American Antiquarian Society in 1910.
Mary Elizabeth Sawyer (1806-1889) and her little lamb were born in Sterling, MA, and this sculpture on the Sterling Common memorializes the classic poem written by John Roulstone.
The weather-worn painted advertisements can still be found on quite a few of the old mill buildings of Worcester’s past. I find a kind of strange comfort in them–portals to a different time. The Heywood Boot and Shoe Company closed in 1953, according to the 
On Green Street just south of the Providence and Worcester Railroad overpass, stairs leading to the second floor of Worcester’s second ugliest building (the first being the
Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts
I went to the open house for the newly restored Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts. Nice to see Worcester do something right.