Upper Arlington Library

Saturday, Aug. 6

Art

Berkshire Museum, conversation between artist Juarez and art historian Edward Sullivan, who will discuss the evolution of Juarez’s mural-sized work, 5 p.m. Free. 39 South St., Pittsfield. berkshiremuseum.org or 413-443-7171.

Martha Canfield Library, opening reception for exhibit of small, jewel-like oil paintings by Ukrainian-born artist Helen Young, 3-5 p.m. East Arlington Road, Arlington, Vt. 802-375-6153 or marthacanfieldlibrary.org .

Baer’s Den Bakery & Deli, opening reception for exhibit of painted and photographic vignettes and landscapes from across the United States by Matt Belge, Jaye Fox, Michael Miller, Jeff and Jane Hudson, Dan and Martha Rose, Sandra Webber and Thor Wickstrom, 4-7 p.m. 3 East Hoosac St., Adams. 413-776-7310.

Harrison Gallery, opening reception for "Luminous Landscapes," an exhibit of landscape paintings by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, 5-7 p.m. 39 Spring St., Williamstown. 413-458-1700 or theharrisongallery.com .

Lauren Clark Fine Art, opening reception for "Places," new work by Bart Arnold, 4-7 p.m. 402 Park St., Housatonic. 413-274-1432 or laurenclarkfineart.com .

Art On Main, opening reception for "Silk & Seed: Milkweeds in Motion," an exhibit of photographs by John MacGruer that capture the grace, color and movement of the milkweed plants as they begin to release their seeds, 5-7 p.m. Barnbrook Realty, 271 Main St., Great Barrington. 413-528-2446.

Dance

Otis Firehouse, annual square dancing, with Cliff Brodeur calling and music by the Housatonic Philharmonic, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Route 23, Otis. 413-269-4605.

Film

Mass MoCA, screening of "Metropolis," a groundbreaking silent film by legendary filmmaker Fritz Lang that lost much of its original content after its 1927 debut, featuring 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, just four minutes shorter than the lost original cut, 8:30 p.m. $15/advance, $19/day of show. Marshall Street, North Adams. 413-662-2111 or massmoca.org .

Kid Stuff

* ** Bartholomew’s Cobble, "Discovery Days" event features "Elizabeth Freeman’s World," a combination of guided and self-guided activities in the Ashley House and in surrounding fields, trails and woodlands of Bartholomew’s Cobble, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $10/adults, free/children 12 and under; registration required. Weatogue Road, Sheffield. 413-298-3239.

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1951, Relief print, 762 x 510 mm, Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference: Eph-D-CABOT-Rodeo-1951-01

Cabot had been involved with sideshows from around the 1930s, and in 1946 took out contracts with A&P associations to run sideshow alleys at A&P shows. Rodeos were also occasions on which he could operate sideshows. Even at the age of 70, in 1960, he was still keen to run the occasional stall at country fairs, selling novelties such as dolls on sticks, acrobat clowns, and Lord’s Prayer medallions.

Life on the road had its drawbacks. His wife Beatrice often regretted her husband’s absences on the road. But on one occasion she had accompanied him in a truck down near Mosgiel, taking sideshow novelties to yet another fair, and they met with an accident. An undated newsclipping in one of Cabot’s scrapbooks (Acc. 82-215) reports "A truck with a caravan attached, owned by Mr C H Cabot, collided with a telegraph pole on the main highway south of Mosgiel golf links at 10 a.m. today. The truck…was laden with goods used as prizes in sideshows. Mr Cabot and his wife, who were passengers, were given medical attention at Mosgiel. The driver received cuts and abrasions".

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King Thompson, 1918 Perhaps no other name is as synonymous with Upper Arlington as that of its founder, King Gibson Thompson. In 1913, with a clear vision of an "ideal community" King and his brother, Ben, purchased 840 acres of the "most suitable, most convenient and the most beautiful rolling, partly wooded Ohio farmland" from James Terrell Miller. The land appealed to the Thompsons as a residential site because of its location on high ground, its proximity to both downtown Columbus and The Ohio State University campus, and its position upwind from larger cities. The beautiful land that was once a "well-managed, immaculately kept, working farm" was subdivided into 2500 lots. The King Thompson Company was started in 1914 to sell the new subdivision to the public. In August of 1914, laborers and teams of horses were hired by the Thompson brothers to construct the first street, named Roxbury Road, leading into this pristine new subdivision.

By 1915 six houses were built and early in 1916 both King and Ben Thompson completed construction on their own new homes. The Upper Arlington Company was formed in March 1917, to develop the land and construct streets, sewers and water lines. King Thompson’s plan for this new community demanded that: one management oversaw the entire district, each house was located with respect to the location of houses on adjoining lots, and each lot was graded and landscaped in accordance with the scenery of neighboring areas so that consistency between plots was maintained. This theme of continuity and precision in landscaping is still observable in Upper Arlington neighborhoods. On March 20, 1918, the village of Upper Arlington, with 200 residents was incorporated.

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