Word: wadsworth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Happy Investors For Atlanta's Noel and Kathy Wadsworth, investing in art is a full-time occupation. Last April, Wadsworth, 43, sold his thriving 20-year-old carpet plant in Dalton, Ga., in order to concentrate on what had been the couple's consuming interest: collecting French and American impressionists. "We've always been interested in art, and we'd always bought local artists," he explains. "Then, five or six years ago, we just had a yearning for artists who were names in books, fine art, artists who were dead...
...research team discovered a sheep's skeleton and two coins in July as it combed the area prior to the extension of the Red Line. Further exploration at the site adjacent to Wadsworth Gate revealed the remains of a Harvard dormitory with over 12,000 artifacts including pieces of ceramic pottery and galss, many animal bones, and paraphernalia students used in colonial days...
...romantic enough. The Cajuns' Acadian (Nova Scotian) ancestors founded a colony on Canada's Bay of Fundy in 1604, and by 1755 had transformed the wilderness into a bucolic countryside. Then came a scheming English Governor who hated the French. In an act of genocide that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later made a cause célèbre with his poem Evangeline, the British jammed thousands of Acadians onto prison ships and scattered them throughout the Old and New Worlds...
...This is an important historical find, and it seems to be a unique collection in terms of its range and quality," Roberts said yesterday, adding that some of the artifacts, particularly in the Wadsworth House site, could yield information about the economy and trade patterns in colonial Cambridge...
...arts. Simon Gray's new play Molly was the attraction at the restored Dock Street Theater (see following story). Noon at the Dock Street was the hour for a daily series of chamber music programs under the co-directorship of Pianists Peter Serkin and Charles Wadsworth. The first recital consisted of works by Pergolesi, Schubert and Dvorak, and the capacity audience of 463 rose to its feet, applauding...