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Fall River Historical Society Summer Lecture Series: Spencer Borden and Interlachen
presented by Dr Stefani Koorey
Wednesday, July 18 2018
Safe Houses: The Underground Railroad in Fall River
Safe Houses: The Underground Railroad in Fall River, is a look at the city’s role in the emancipation of slaves during the Civil War by utilizing the country’s Underground Railroad network.
In particular, the documentary examines six properties in the city where local abolitionists, sympathetic to the cause of slaves, assisted in their transfer from the South to free states and Canada.
Fall River Massachusetts History and Cartograph (1877)
Fall River Massachusetts history is explored and examine from this vintage map that was originally produced in 1877. In the video we zoom in and look at various historical and geographical aspects that make this map so great!
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Fall River Massachusetts Hotel Video
Comfort Inn Hotels in Fall River Massachusetts offers quiet, charm & warm hospitality, comfortable accommodation. Enjoy Free Hot Breakfast & High Speed Internet Access at Hotel Fall River MA. Located only a mile off of RT 24, makes it an easy destination for corporate or leisure travel needs. Within the City of Fall River there is a myriad of nearby attractions Battleship Cove, located only minutes away, the world’s largest US Navy fleet in preservation. This exhibit features five historic landmarks for you to tour. Also in Fall River, the Lizzie Borden Museum and grave site, the Fall River Historical Society Museum, Fall River Children's Museum and Fall River Maritime Museum. This city is also rich in the Portuguese culture which is highlighted in many of its numerous restaurants.
Fall River Ride to Remember Vets 2016
Fall River, Bristol County Ride to Remember Vets 2016 @ American Legion Berkley Ma.
Fall River
This Massachusetts town is starting to capitalize on the notoriety of its most infamous citizen, Lizzie Borden.
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Skeleton in Armor - Discovery in Fall River Massachusetts
A skeleton, clad in armor, was discovered in Fall River, Massachusetts in the 1830s. It's origin was a mystery.
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Carlos de Medeiros, emigrante em Fall River, MA – USA
Numa viagem-sonho à América, por alturas do Natal e final de ano de 2014, foram feitas inúmeras recolhas de testemunhos, experiências de vida, bem como alguns costumes, tradições usos e costumes das populações, outrora idas de Portugal e, na maioria, dos Açores.
A maioria dos trabalhos contemplaram testemunhos de emigrantes e, também aconteceram, alguns de segunda geração, já nascidos e criados no Continente Americano.
O contacto com centenas de pessoas com as mais diversas profissões e até aposentados, foi um enorme enriquecimento e uma forma de olhar completamente diferente da que existia sobre os nossos emigrantes.
Uma das dificuldades em comum a quase todos foi a “língua” de seguida a adaptação ao clima.
A Costa Ocidental teve o apoio de todos a quem se dirigiu, tendo sido em alguns casos, uns mais que outros.
Este trabalho retracta um pouco da vida de um Açoriano, Sr. Carlos de Medeiros, no seio de uma das maiores comunidades de Açorianos nos USA, que faz/tem a sua vida na América, mas sempre pautada por princípios Açorianos, princípios esses que ainda hoje mantêm e, vivamente, transmite a todos os que o rodeiam.
Desta feita, Costa Ocidental esteve na presença de mais um emigrante, homem de família, sonhos e realizações… em Fall River, MA – USA.
Sem sombra de dúvida que esta comunidade de Açorianos, em Fall River, é das maiores fora dos Açores.
Mas para ficar a saber tudo da conversa que teve com a Costa Ocidental, nada melhor que ver as imagens/vídeo:
Obrigado ao Sr. Carlos de Medeiros, pela prontidão e amabilidade em conceder estes momentos fantásticos, que serão mais um enriquecimento para a história e património imaterial dos Açores.
Obrigado à Família Costa (Osvaldo, Connie e Tânia) por me acolherem, darem apoio logístico, contactos de pessoas interessantes, entre outras coisas.
Obrigado à Luísa Silveira, que embora ficando na Ilha, deu todo o apoio familiar necessário para que tudo corresse conformemente planeado.
Obrigado à SATA, e a todos os que de uma forma ou de outra tornaram possíveis estas imagens.
नमस्ते
josé
Saint Anne's Church and Shrine in Fall River, MA
Fall River, MA
October 9, 2019
For more information on how you can help with the building's preservation, please consider visiting the following sites:
st-annes-shrine.org
About Saint Anne’s Shrine in Fall River:
St. Anne’s Church, dedicated to the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built with donations and labor from the French Canadian population in Fall River and has been a national shrine to the mother of Mary since 1892. St. Anne’s was built using local granite and Vermont blue marble. The cost to build such a structure today would amount to $80 to $100 million, according to architect Tony Dias.
Due to needed repairs (a piece of plaster fell off the ceiling one day during Mass), a shrinking congregation and a declining number of priests in the diocese, St. Anne’s Church and the Shrine closed Nov. 25, 2018 and ceased to be a diocesan parish.
Fortunately, due to the efforts of the St. Anne’s Preservation Society, headed by city parishioner Richard Affonso, and with the approval of Bishop Da Cunha of Fall River, the Shrine re-opened on July 4, 2019.
The society oversees and maintain the site as a shrine and it is leased by the society from the Fall River Diocese. There are no weekly Masses scheduled, but a minimum of two Masses will be celebrated at St. Anne’s each year, according to the agreement. The first Mass will be held Friday, July 26, 2019, the Feast of Saint Anne. The society will also schedule recitations of the rosary, bible studies and other special programs.
In the coming years, the society plans to raise funds to repair the upper church that closed in 2015 and eventually open it to the public.
The Upper Church:
Belgian sculptor Maestro Stalzenburg was commissioned by St. Anne’s Church to carve a statue of St. Anne from a single block of wood. It was received in 1893 and sent to Chicago for public display at the World’s Fair.
A marble altar and baptismal font in the sanctuary was imported from Italy in the late 1950’s. The original windows at St. Anne’s Church were made of a simple colored glass to keep costs down when the church was built. They were replaced with stained glass by E. Rault of Rennes, France and set between 1959 and 1961.
The Lower Shrine:
The lower shrine became known as a place of faith healings and miracles. The first miracle took place even before the shrine was opened. Father Adrien de Montaubricq of Bordeau France had come to the city in 1869 to help form the first French-speaking parish. During the blessing of the cornerstone on March 20, 1870, he and some 100 parishioners standing on a platform were injured when it collapsed. He prayed to St. Anne for aid and to help him recuperate so he could carry on building the church. In return, he promised St. Anne his church would be dedicated to her. The church was named St. Anne’s and opened two months later.
The letters D.O.M. carved into the marble church cornerstone are Latin for “Deo Optimo Magnifico,” translated as “only the biggest and best for God.”
Another stone, marked “Pierre De Ste. Anne Jerusalem,” that stands before the statue of Saint Anne in the lower shrine, is from Saint Anne’s Church in Jerusalem.
The Shrine has a wax statue Sainte Concorde, along with relics from the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome, both having been brought by the shrine’s Dominican founders who fled France and came here as refugees in 1893. Saint Concorde died a martyr in 258 AD when she was flogged to death for becoming a Christian.
There are three priests entombed in St. Anne’s Shrine: Father Sauval, who arrived in Fall River as a French Dominican on Nov. 22, 1887, at the age of 39, and took on the project to build the church in 1892 ; Father Marchildon, known as the “apostle” of St. Anne’s Shrine, and known to have touched thousands with his kindness and compassion; and Father Terrien.
Those Dominicans brought with them a wax figure of St. Concordia, the foster mother of St. Hippolytus, who was beaten to death in 258 A.D. by order of the Roman Emperor Valerian. The wax statue is interred at St. Anne’s Shrine in a glass case, accompanied by relics of St. Concordia recovered from the Roman catacombs.
A few feet away is a large, faded statue of St. Anne with the Blessed Virgin Mary as a young child, with the original French inscription, “Ste Anne et Marie,” still visible. In front of that statue is a small rock taken from the Crusader Church of Saint Anne in the Holy Land built over the traditional site of the home of Jesus’ maternal grandparents, Saints Anne and Joachim. Just to the right of that statue is a pile of crutches, braces and orthopedic boots that the faithful have left behind in thanksgiving after being healed while touching and praying before the stone from St. Anne’s Church in Jerusalem.
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Discover Fall River- Children's Museum of Greater Fall River
Fall River, Massachusetts. Battleship Cove museum.
Battleship Cove Naval museum. Largest collection of WWII ships in the World. You can spend hours just touring the battleship. What glory it must have been to serve on these magnificent battle wagons.
A Conversation with The Bishop of Fall River
NBCN Jim Marshall sits down with the head of the Fall River Diocese, Bishop Edgar Moreira da Cunha to talk about the Catholic Church and Pope Francis visit to the United States
The History of Professional Baseball in Fall River
Save the VA Update 1/19/13 - Fall River Historical Conference
Save the VA Member Amanda Campbell provided a brief update to attendees of the annual Fall River County Historical Conference, discussing the pending trip to Washington, D.C. to meet with Secretary of VA Shinseki as well as encouraging the audience to keep their support up.
Quequechan by Don Hammontree - Fall River, MA
The second video from Don Hammontree's latest CD Brutalist School (download it at or at iTunes), Quequechan is the singer/songwriter's tribute to Fall River, Massachusetts, his home of more than 11 years. Most of the photographs of the city shown in the video were taken by Hammontree, an avid photographer.
Fall River, a city of around 90,000 people that sits on the Massachusetts/Rhode Island border an hour south of Boston. In its heyday, it was one of the largest textile manufacturing centers in the world. Famous Fall River-ites include suspected axe murderess Lizzie Borden, master chef Emeril Lagasse, news host George Stephanopoulos, former Boston Celtic Chris Herren, and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne.
A native of Peoria, Ill., Don Hammontree is a singer/songwriter, writer and photographer. Brutalist School is his third CD, following Mount Hope Days (2003) and The Mumbai EP (2005). He is also the author of the self-published novel Baptized in Formaldehyde, a day-in-the-life, coming-of-age, sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll story for the whole family.
A busy performer, Hammontree has played throughout the American Northeast, Midwest and South, as well as in Poland and Ukraine. For his latest shows, please consult
Don Hammontree is also on Facebook, as well.
Battleshipcove Fall River MA
World War 2 navel ships
Police chase ended on Braga Bridge - Fall River - MA. 04/12/19
Police chase ends on Braga Bridge. At least 12 police units on the scenece. Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge. Footage capture by Vantrue N2 Pro dash cam.
Portuguese-American Culture in Fall River
UMass Amherst Anthropology 106- Culture Through Film
Exploring the hidden treasures of the Portuguese culture that quietly reside in Fall River, Massachusetts.