April 12, 2014, BY CORI URBAN, The Republican A variety of performances, demonstrations and art exhibitions focusing on the theme of trolls, mythology and folklore will celebrate the completed renovation of the Turners Falls-Gill Bridge. Troll Fest is a Third Thursday event produced by Turners Falls RiverCulture; it will take place Thursday, April 17, from […]
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Being an artist is a perfect fit for William Accorsi
March 24, 2014, BY TRISH CRAPO for The Greenfield Recorder. One morning not long ago, two artists bent over a scroll saw, one of them carefully guiding a piece of thin plywood around the moving blade, intent on bringing a drawing to life — or at least, into another dimension.The two were William Accorsi, now […]
RiverCulture/Mass Creative Oped for The Greenfield Recorder
March 19, 2014- Greenfield Recorder Art and culture have been central to the revitalization of Turners Falls and Franklin County.The last decade has seen a steady increase of economic activity generated by the arts, and more residents are participating in arts-related events. Not surprisingly, there has been a growing partnership between area businesses and nonprofit […]
Everything Old is New Again/WGBY Visits LOOT
January 19, 2014- I recently taped a segment for Connecting Point at an amazing store called Loot Found + Made in Turners Falls the other day, and it got me thinking about how something old is always becoming something new again. Loot is a store that takes industrial items, old items, found items… and provides […]
Turners Falls Finds Codes For Future
January 01, 2014 BY CORI URBAN, The Republican Technology was once the realm of the mills in the Connecticut River-side village of Turners Falls, but today technology is being used to export the village’s stories to the rest of the world. Turners Falls Encoded, a series of quick response codes leading to multimedia vignettes, is […]