Brockton

Dr. Edgar Everett Dean House is an historic house at 81 Green Street in Brockton, Massachusetts. The house was designed by architect Wesley Lyng... Minor, and was built in 1884. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. From 1939 to 1993, the building was home to the Hall Funeral Home.
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Brockton City Hall is an historic city hall at 45 School Street in Brockton, Massachusetts. The hall was built in 1892 and added to the National... Historic Register in 1976.
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Curtis Building is an historic building at 105-109 Main Street in Brockton, Massachusetts. The building was constructed in 1898 and added to the... National Historic Register in 1982.
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Forest Avenue School is an historic school on Concord Avenue in Brockton, Massachusetts. The school, originally located on Forest Avenue, was built... in 1875 and operated until 1963. The building was moved to the new Brockton High School grounds, on Concord Avenue, in 1969. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It currently serves as a museum.
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Kristian-Joy Alfonso is a long-time American dramatic actress, former figure skater and fashion model. She is best known for playing Hope Williams... Brady, which she has played since 1983 on the long-running NBC dramatic serial Days of our Lives. She began her career as a figure skater and gold medal champion at the Junior Olympics. At the age of 13, a devastating tobogganing accident ended her skating career and Alfonso began modeling. By the time she was 15 she had appeared on the cover of over 30 magazines, including Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She was first seen on TV, playing opposite Rock Hudson in the TV movie The Starmaker in 1981. Her career took off in April 1983 when she started playing Hope Williams on the soap opera Days of our Lives. During that time, her character fell in love with, and married, Bo Brady . Alfonso left the show in April 1987 for a two-year stint on the night time soap opera Falcon Crest as Pilar Ortega for its last two seasons. She returned to Days briefly from April to July 1990; this return culminated in the entire town of Salem believing that Hope had died.
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George Hurley is a drummer noted for his work with The Minutemen and fIREHOSE. Even though he went to the same high school as D. Boon and Mike Watt... he did not meet them until around 1978. That same year, Hurley formed The Reactionaries with Boon, Watt, and Martin Tamburovich. After The Reactionaries split, George joined a Hollywood new wave band called Hey Taxi!. In 1980, Hey Taxi! disbanded at the same time the Minutemen's then drummer Frank Tonche left the band. Hurley reunited with his two former Reactionaries bandmates in the Minutemen. Hurley is also known for his distinctive hairstyle that he sported in his later Minutemen and fIREHOSE days, a protruding clump of hair that he nicknamed "The Unit". Hurley explained in the 2005 Minutemen documentary We Jam Econo that since his limbs were all busy when he played drums, he grew "The Unit" so that his head movements were more noticeable on stage. Hurley has played with The Red Krayola and Tom Watson from Slovenly.
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Paul Gonsalves, – May 15, 1974 was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport... Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue". That performance is credited with revitalizing Ellington's waning career in the 50's. Born in Brockton, Massachusetts to Cape Verdean parents, Gonsalves' first instrument was the guitar, and as a child he was regularly asked to play Cape Verdean folk songs for his family. He grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts and played as a member of the Sabby Lewis Orchestra. His first professional engagement in Boston was with the same group on tenor saxophone, in which he played before and after his military service during World War II. Before joining Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1950, he had also played with the big bands of Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie . At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves' solo in Ellington's song "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" contained 27 choruses; the publicity from which is credited with reviving Ellington's career.
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John Doucette was a film character actor. He was a balding, husky man remembered for playing mob muscle and western bad guys in movies. According to... IMDB, between 1943 and 1987 he appeared in some 260 movies and television programs, with about 60 early appearances being uncredited. Doucette progressed to dramatic roles including a small part as an architect in The Fountainhead in and the 1970 epic Patton when he played 3rd Infantry Division Commander Maj. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott. His other notable performances included bit parts in High Noon, The Robe, and the mega-budget Cleopatra. More familiarly, Doucette appeared in the John Wayne films True Grit, The Sons of Katie Elder, and Big Jake. Many baby boomers first saw John Doucette as the bad guy in several episodes of The Lone Ranger, a natural role considering his rough looks, commanding presence, and skill with a gun. He was considered by many to be the fastest draw in Hollywood. His roles, however, went well beyond that stereotype.
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Mark Egan is an American jazz bass guitarist and trumpeter, arguably best known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1980, and... the Gil Evans Orchestra. He is co-founder of the jazz fusion band, Elements. Egan has maintained a solo career, with three platinum and three gold albums to his credit, and has served as bandleader of his own ensembles to positive reviews. Egan has additionally played on soundtracks for film, and has kept busy as a session musician, often contributing his skills to many famous musicians, within a variety of genres. Egan has recorded with Sting, Arcadia, Roger Daltrey and Joan Osborne, among others; performed with Marianne Faithfull, David Sanborn, John McLaughlin, and Sophie B. Hawkins. and has played on the soundtracks to such American television shows and movies as Aladdin, The Color of Money, A Chorus Line, NBC Sports, ABC's All My Children, "CNN/Headline News" and numerous television commercials. Egan continues to tour and record worldwide with his group as well as Elements, Bill Evans, Larry Coryell and various other artists. Influenced by his father, Egan first studied trumpet at age 10.
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Marion H. "Pooch" Hall, Jr. is an American television and film actor and model from Brockton, Massachusetts. He is perhaps best known for his role... as professional football player Derwin Davis on the BET comedy-drama series The Game. Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Hall attended Brockton High School. In 1994, he won the Southern New England Golden Gloves for boxing. Hall attended the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he got his first taste for acting with the UMass Dartmouth Theatre Company . While at UMass he met his future wife Linda Hall. Hall is a realtor in California . The two married after graduation. They have three children: daughters Djanai and Djaeda; and son Djordan Hall landed his first acting role in the 2001 Lift. That same year, he appeared In 2003, he served as co-host for The N reality series Girls v. Boys. In 2005, he portrayed Ty'ree in the miniseries Miracle's Boys. The following year, he won the role of Derwin Davis on The Game. He was featured as Chrisette Michele's love interest in her music video "What You Do".
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