Springfield

The Water Shops Armory was part of the Springfield Armory buildings in Springfield, Massachusetts. The original Armory stretched over two city blocks... in what was known as the Hill Shops . In addition, a mile south on a tributary river, the Mill River, is the Water Shops where the heavy metal forging & machining was done as well as gun stock shaping. This area underwent many changes. It was located at this place due to the need for power which was supplied by the Mill River. It is now a privately-owned industrial site. The building was originally a two story building until Friday June 17, 1988 when a fire destroyed part of the top floors. The building was built in two different sections the first was built as an armory in 1858 the second section which paralleled Allen Street built in 1901 is where the fire happened.
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French Congregational Church is a historic church at 33-37 Bliss Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. The church building was built in 1887 and... added to the National Historic Register in 1983.
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Ethel Apartment House is a historic house at 70 Patton Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was built in 1912 and added to the National Historic Register in 1987.

McKinney Building is a historic building at 1121-27 Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. The building was built in 1905 and added to the... National Historic Register in 1983.
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Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and... psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Both studies produced useful data, but Leary and his associate Richard Alpert were fired from the university. Leary believed LSD showed therapeutic potential for use in psychiatry. He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase and life extension , and he developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology . During the 1960s and 1970s, Leary was arrested regularly and was held captive in 29 different prisons throughout the world. President Richard Nixon once described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America".
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June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters . Her career has encompassed radio, theatrical shorts,... feature films, television, record albums , video games, talking toys and other media. Foray was also one of the founding members of ASIFA-Hollywood, the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation. Foray was born as June Lucille Forer, the second of three children of Maurice Forer and Ida E. Robinson in Springfield, Massachusetts, on September 18, 1917 . There her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years old; by age 15, she was doing regular radio voice work.
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Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an American film actress, fashion designer and former model, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Sevigny gained... reputation for her eclectic fashion sense and developed a broad career in the fashion industry in the mid 1990s, both for modelling and for her work at New York's Sassy magazine, which labelled her the new "it girl" at the time, garnering her attention within New York's fashion scene. Sevigny made her film debut with a leading role in the highly controversial film Kids , written by Harmony Korine, which led to an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance. A long line of roles in generally well received independent and often avant-garde films throughout the decade established Sevigny's reputation as an indie film queen. It was not until 1999 that Sevigny gained serious critical and commercial recognition for her first mainstream role in the critically lauded Boys Don't Cry, for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
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Tony MacAlpine is an American guitarist and keyboardist. In a career spanning more than two decades and with eleven studio albums to his name, he is... best known as an instrumental solo guitarist, although he has worked with many different bands and musicians in the form of guest appearances and collaborations. Having started playing piano at the age of five and guitar at twelve, MacAlpine studied classical music for a number of years at the Springfield Conservatory of Music in Massachusetts, as well as various music programs at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. One of his principal musical influences is Chopin, to whom he pays homage in his interpretations of the latter's études, which are featured on the majority of his studio albums. MacAlpine influenced and contributed much to the neo-classical metal genre of the late 1980s, becoming known for his instrumental rock style of playing that displayed highly advanced shred techniques and, in later years with the band CAB, elements of jazz fusion.
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Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former... candidate in the 2008 presidential election. Born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts to French-Canadian immigrant parents, Gravel served in the United States Army in West Germany and graduated from Columbia University. He moved to Alaska in the late 1950s, becoming a real estate developer and entering politics. He served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1963 to 1966 and became its Speaker of the House. Gravel was elected to the United States Senate in 1968. As Senator, Gravel became nationally known for his forceful but unsuccessful attempts to end the draft during the Vietnam War and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971 at risk to himself. He conducted an unusual campaign for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in 1972, and then played a crucial role in getting Congressional approval for the Trans-Alaska pipeline in 1973.
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Jerome Bernard "Jerry" Orbach was an American actor and singer. He was well known for his starring role as Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law &... Order television series and as the voice of Lumière in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. As well, Orbach was a noted musical theatre star. His prominent roles included originating the character of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical play in history; Chuck Baxter in the original production of Promises, Promises ; Julian Marsh in 42nd Street; and Billy Flynn in the original production of Chicago. Orbach was born in the Bronx, the only child of Emily , a greeting card manufacturer and radio singer, and Leon Orbach, a restaurant manager and vaudeville performer. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Hamburg, Germany, who was descended from Sephardic refugees from the Spanish Inquisition. His mother, a native of Pennsylvania, was Polish American and Catholic, and Orbach was raised Catholic .
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Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and... psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Both studies produced useful data, but Leary and his associate Richard Alpert were fired from the university. Leary believed LSD showed therapeutic potential for use in psychiatry. He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase and life extension , and he developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology . During the 1960s and 1970s, Leary was arrested regularly and was held captive in 29 different prisons throughout the world. President Richard Nixon once described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America".
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Herbert Blomstedt is a Swedish conductor. Herbert Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and two years after his birth, his Swedish... parents moved the family back to their country of origin. He studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music and the University of Uppsala, followed by studies of contemporary music at Darmstadt in 1949, Baroque music with Paul Sacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and further conducting studies with Igor Markevitch, Jean Morel at the Juilliard School, and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center. He won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize in 1953 and the Salzburg Conducting Competition in 1955. Blomstedt is most noted for his performances of German and Austrian composers, such as Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner and Richard Strauss, and also as a champion of Scandinavian composers, such as Edvard Grieg, Franz Berwald, Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen. A devout Seventh-day Adventist, Blomstedt does not rehearse on Friday nights or Saturdays, the Sabbath in Seventh-day Adventism.
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June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters . Her career has encompassed radio, theatrical shorts,... feature films, television, record albums , video games, talking toys and other media. Foray was also one of the founding members of ASIFA-Hollywood, the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation. Foray was born as June Lucille Forer, the second of three children of Maurice Forer and Ida E. Robinson in Springfield, Massachusetts, on September 18, 1917 . There her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years old; by age 15, she was doing regular radio voice work.
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Kurt Vogel Russell is an American television and film actor. His first acting roles were as a child in television series, including a lead role in... the Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters . In the 1970s, he signed a ten-year contract with the Walt Disney Company, where he became, according to Robert Osborne, the "studio's top star of the '70s". In 1979, Russell was nominated for an Emmy Award for the made-for-television film Elvis. In 1983, he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for his performance opposite Meryl Streep in the 1984 film, Silkwood. During the 1980s, Russell was cast in several films by director John Carpenter, including anti-hero roles such as former army hero-turned robber Snake Plissken in the futuristic action film Escape from New York, Antarctic helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady in the horror film The Thing , and truck driver Jack Burton in the dark kung-fu comedy/action film Big Trouble in Little China , all of which have since become cult films. In 1994, he had a starring role in the military/science fiction film Stargate.
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Tony MacAlpine is an American guitarist and keyboardist. In a career spanning more than two decades and with eleven studio albums to his name, he is... best known as an instrumental solo guitarist, although he has worked with many different bands and musicians in the form of guest appearances and collaborations. Having started playing piano at the age of five and guitar at twelve, MacAlpine studied classical music for a number of years at the Springfield Conservatory of Music in Massachusetts, as well as various music programs at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. One of his principal musical influences is Chopin, to whom he pays homage in his interpretations of the latter's études, which are featured on the majority of his studio albums. MacAlpine influenced and contributed much to the neo-classical metal genre of the late 1980s, becoming known for his instrumental rock style of playing that displayed highly advanced shred techniques and, in later years with the band CAB, elements of jazz fusion.
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Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former... candidate in the 2008 presidential election. Born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts to French-Canadian immigrant parents, Gravel served in the United States Army in West Germany and graduated from Columbia University. He moved to Alaska in the late 1950s, becoming a real estate developer and entering politics. He served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1963 to 1966 and became its Speaker of the House. Gravel was elected to the United States Senate in 1968. As Senator, Gravel became nationally known for his forceful but unsuccessful attempts to end the draft during the Vietnam War and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971 at risk to himself. He conducted an unusual campaign for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in 1972, and then played a crucial role in getting Congressional approval for the Trans-Alaska pipeline in 1973.
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