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"Memorial Town Hall is the historic town hall of Monson, Massachusetts. Located on Main Street on land donated by the local prominent Reynolds family, the High Victorian Gothic stone building was constructed in 1885 to a design by George Potter. In keeping with a memorial to the town's fallen soldiers, there are two cannons (one from the American Civil War, the other from the First World War) in front of the building. The hall, which was built of the locally quarried granite (from the same quarry that supplied granite for the Springfield Armory), the building's basic shape is that of a T. The northwest (left front) corner has a four-story tower, and the southwest (right front) corner has a smaller octagonal turret. In between, a gabled pavilion is centered on the front faced perpendicular to the main roofline. The stem of the T extends northeast to the rear of the building. Arches and other decorative elements are shaped out of ashlar granite in alternating light and dark colors. The building's roof is slate; the front portion is hipped, with the center interrupted by the front-facing gable. The rear section ends in a gable. Inside the hall, the front houses town offices, and a space that was originally used as a GAR meeting space, and the rear of the building houses an auditorium with stage. Interior spaces have not been significantly altered since the building's construction was completed, and most continue to be used for their original purpose. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was included as a contributing property in the Monson Center Historic District in 1991. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampden County, Massachusetts References Monson Category:Buildings and structures in Hampden County, Massachusetts Category:National Register of Historic Places in Hampden County, Massachusetts Category:Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts Category:Monson, Massachusetts "
"Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University where she has also been the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Culture.Social Science Research Council Author Page She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University in 1991. She is the author of books and essays of critical theory as well as a former editor of the academic journal Public Culture. Academic work and publications Povinelli’s work has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism that would support an anthropology of the otherwise. This critical task is animated by a critical engagement with the traditions of American pragmatism and continental immanent critique and grounded in the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. Her first two books examined the governance of the otherwise in late liberal settler colonies from the perspective of the politics of recognition. In particular, they focused on impasses within liberal systems of law and value as they meet local Australian indigenous worlds, and the effect of these impasses on the development of legal and public culture in Australia. Her second two books, The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality and Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism, examine formations of the Late Liberal Anthropocene from the perspective of intimacy, embodiment, and narrative form.Haus der Kulteren der Welt, The Anthropocene Project She was the recipient of the German Transatlantic Program Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Fall 2011. In 2018 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Films Povinelli is one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective. They have made films including Karrabing, Low Tide Turning, which were selected for the 2012 Berlinale International Film Festival, Shorts Competition,Berlinale Film Festival 2012When the Dogs Talked, and Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$ which premiered at the 2015 Melbourne International Film Festival.Melbourne International Film Festival 2015 Povinelli and the Karrabing Indigenous Corporation received the MIFF 2015 Cinema Nova Award for Best Short Fiction Film for When the Dogs Talked. MIFF 2015 Shorts Awards The Karrabing Film CollectiveKarrabing, Keeping Country Live! received the 2015 Visible Award.2015 Visible Award Povinelli also appeared in the documentary film Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006), directed by Paul Festa, about the French composer Olivier Messiaen's organ work.Internet Movie Database Selected bibliography *"Horizons and Frontiers, Late Liberal Territoriality, and Toxic Habitats", e-flux, Journal #90, April 2018. *"Mother Earth: Public Sphere, Biosphere, Colonial Sphere", e-flux, Journal #92, June 2018. *Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, Duke University Press. Duke University Press, 2016. *Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism. Duke University Press. Duke University Press, 2011. *"Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli by Kim Turcot DiFruscia, Alterites Femmes, 7.1: 88-98. *"Digital Futures." Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, 3.2.2009. *The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality. A Public Planet Book. Duke University Press, 2006. *"Technologies of Public Form: Circulation, Transfiguration, Recognition." In Technologies of Public Persuasion, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, eds. 15(3): 385-397, 2003. *The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. *"Radical Worlds: The Anthropology of Incommensurability and Inconceivability." Annual Review of Anthropology. Volume 30: 319-34, 2001. *Labor's Lot: The Power, History and Culture of Aboriginal Action. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. NotesExternal links *Elizabeth Povinelli Website *Columbia University Faculty Bio *Public Culture Author Page *School for Social and Policy Research, Charles Darwin University *Digital Futures Interactive Essay Category:American cultural critics Category:American social sciences writers Category:Columbia University faculty Category:Yale University alumni Category:Living people Category:Queer theorists Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities "
"The Mills—Hale—Owen Blocks were a collection of three historic mixed-use commercial and residential blocks at 959—991 Main Street in the South End of Springfield, Massachusetts. They occupied an entire city block on the east side of Main Street, between Union and Hubbard Streets, and were some of the city's best examples of commercial Italianate architecture, prior to their destruction in the 2011 Springfield tornado. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Description and history The Mills, Hale, and Owen blocks formed a single monolithic block on Main Street between Union and Hubbard Streets on Springfield's south side. The Mills and Hale Blocks occupied the left portion of the block, and were both three stories in height, with similarly styled cornices of equal height. Both had several ground-floor retail spaces, with recessed entrances flanked by plate glass windows. Upper-story windows were set in segmented arches, with keystoned lintels; those on the Hale Block had a more elaborate brick corbelling in the surround. The Owen Block, at the right end, was four stories in height. Pilasters separated the upper story window bays into pairs, and the ground- floor storefronts were topped by pressed tin frieze. The Mills and Hale blocks were both built in 1874, and were two of the best examples of Italianate architecture of the period in the city. They were also the first major buildings built in a push to extend the downtown area to the south, and introduced the mixed use style of building use to the area. The Owen Block was built in 1899 in a Classical Revival style reflective of the further expansion of Springfield's downtown area. All three buildings housed a variety of retail businesses on their ground floors. The upper floors of the Mills block were first used as a boarding house, while those of the other two served as residential tenement-style housing. The buildings were rehabilitated in the 1980s, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The buildings sustained extreme damage during the 2011 Springfield tornado, with the top floor of at least one of the buildings partially collapsing. The buildings were demolished eight days later due to the irreparable damage.http://www.masslive.com/business- news/index.ssf/2012/06/tornado_victims_sue_city_of_springfield.html See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Springfield, Massachusetts *National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampden County, Massachusetts References Category:Commercial blocks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category:Buildings and structures in Springfield, Massachusetts Category:National Register of Historic Places in Springfield, Massachusetts Category:Demolished buildings and structures in Massachusetts "