Tag: Smithsonian Institution
NY's Chuck Mangione, Jazz Star, 'King Of The Hill' Recurring Guest, Dies
An iconic jazz musician has died in his upstate New York home, according to reports.
Chuck Mangione died on Tuesday, July 22, according to a family statement. The 84-year-old's death was first reported by the Democrat & Chronicle, a newspaper in his hometown of Rochester, NY.
Mangione's family said he "peacefully passed away in his sleep" at his Rochester home. He was most well-known for the song "Feels So Good," along with the 1977 album with the same name.
The flugelhorn and trumpet player was born on Friday, Nov. 29, 1940. He began music lessons at age 8 and play…
King Kullen Plans Two More Store Closures Before Stop & Shop Takeover
As Stop & Shop continues its takeover of King Kullen on Long Island, two more stores are set to be shuttered due to “underperformance.”
King Kullen closed its Mount Sinai store on Thursday, June 20, and is scheduled to close its Lake Ronkonkoma store on Thursday, Aug. 22, and its North Babylon store on Thursday, Sept. 26, a spokesperson for the company said. Employees are being reassigned and no layoffs are planned.
Earlier this year, Stop & Shop announced its plans to buy the King Kullen, including 32 locations, five Wild by Nature organic supermarkets and the King Kullen corporat…
Belleville’s Lonnie Bunch Is First African-American To Head Smithsonian
Lonnie Bunch, a prominent historian and Belleville native, has been named secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African-American to lead the institution since its founding.
Bunch, 66, who previously founded the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, will oversee 19 museums and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., The Washington Post reports.
“I have such a profound love of the Smithsonian,” Bunch told the Post. “I want to help the world see the Smithsonian as I do, as a place that matters, with gifted people who just want to serve their countr…
Photographer Writing Book On Weir Farm — Connecticut’s First National Park
WILTON, Conn. — The first book about Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut’s first national park unit and the only one dedicated to American painting, will be authored by Xiomaro, a visiting artist at the park.
About 150 of Xiomaro’s photographs will be accompanied with captions that, he said, “tell the big story of a small park.”
The 60-acre national historic site, nestled in Wilton and Ridgefield, is where J. Alden Weir (1852-1919), the father of American Impressionist painting, lived and created iconic works now seen at the Met, the Smithsonian and other world-class museums.
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