Westfield

State Normal Training School is a historic training school at Washington Street in Westfield, Massachusetts. It was built in 1899 and added to the... National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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H. M. Van Deusen Whip Company is a historic factory at 42 Arnold Street in Westfield, Massachusetts. It was built in 1917 and added to the National... Historic Register in 1987.
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Joseph Dewey House is a historic house at 87 S. Maple Street in Westfield, Massachusetts. It was built in 1735 and added to the National Historic Register in 2001.

Westfield Municipal Building is a historic site at 59 Court Street in Westfield, Massachusetts. It was built in 1889 and added to the National Historic Register in 1978.

Jim Matheos , is an American guitarist and the primary songwriter for the progressive metal band Fates Warning, in which he has been the only... consistent member since the group's beginning. Matheos also plays in OSI alongside Kevin Moore , as well as making other appearances with many various bands and artists. He has also released two solo instrumental albums on Metal Blade Records. In 2003, Matheos collaborated with original Fates Warning vocalist John Arch on A Twist of Fate, Arch's first professional recording since leaving Fates Warning in 1986. The two later formed a duo simply called Arch/Matheos, which has released one full-length album so far. Fates Warning's eleventh album is planned to be released in 2012.
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Matt Bachand is an American guitarist born on April 29, 1977. He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also backing... vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He is known for his deep growls or death growl which is often heard in death metal genre. In Shadows Fall, he can also be heard using a clean vocal style, such as in the song "What Drives the Weak." In his earlier days around the early through the mid 1990s he was a guitarist for the death metal band Exhumed and did play in another death metal called Perpetual Doom for a little while. Matt and Jon formed Shadows Fall in late 1995 and released their first album Somber Eyes to the Sky in 1997, which was Matt Bachand self produced label Lifeless Records. He also played guitar and sang in a band called Empty,who released an 11 song cd,"Before the Sunrise", through wilderness records in 1996.The music is a far cry from heavy metal,and features Matt and Jeff Kukucka harmonizing vocals together and playing acoustic guitars throughout. He will be the touring bassist on Times of Grace's upcoming European and North American tours.
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Anne Pitoniak was an American actress. She was nominated twice for Broadway's Tony Award: as Best Actress in 1983, for 'night, Mother, and as Best... Actress in 1994, for a revival of William Inge's Picnic. Pitoniak was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Sophie and John Pitoniak. She was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She spent two years as a civilian actress immediately after World War II, touring Japan, the Philippines and Korea for the Army's Special Services division. She met her future husband, Jerome Milord, then a soldier, when they were both in a U.S.O. show in Japan. In 'night, Mother she played a woman who desperately tries to keep her daughter from killing herself. The play had its premiere at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then moved to Broadway. Both Pitoniak and co-star Kathy Bates received Best Actress Tony Award nominations for their work. In 1994, Pitoniak received a second Tony nomination for her performance as Helen Potts in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Picnic.
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