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Calling Hours for Maureen Murphy

The family of Maureen Murphy has asked us to share information about her calling hours, which will be held on Thursday, December 20, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., at the George L. Doherty Funeral Home in Somerville, 855 Broadway (Powder House Square).

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NEH Grant Will Allow VMA Professor to Complete Digital Banjo Museum

This week, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it is awarding a $100,000 grant to Associate Professor Marc Fields to complete construction of The Banjo Project. The site, hosted on the Emerson server, has been awarded numerous grants over the years from various cultural foundations, but the NEH funding will allow Fields to put the finishing touches on the project – as much as a museum is ever “finished”.