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  Richard Dana
Dana was at one time during the ante-Revolutionary crisis a representative from Boston in the assembly, but he generally declined office, devoting himself exclusively to his profession, except when the call of patriotism impelled him to take a public stand in the cause of liberty.
In November 1776, he was chosen a delegate from Massachusetts to the continental congress, and took part in framing the articles of confederation, and was again sent to the congress of 1778, and made chairman of the committee charged with the reorganization of the army.
Dana was a representative of the best culture of his native state, and had acquired a permanent reputation on both sides of the Atlantic.
www.famousamericans.net /richarddana   (3411 words)

  
 Colonial Hall: Biography of Francis Dana
Francis Dana was born in Massachusetts in 1743.
Dana manifested a decided partiality for the cause of the colonists, and was a valuable acquisition to the ranks of the patriots.
Dana was appointed chief-justice of Massachusetts, and he continued to discharge the grave duties of that office until 1806, when he resigned.
www.colonialhall.com /dana/dana.php   (332 words)

  
 Richard Henry Dana jr. (1815-1882) Two Years Before The Mast (1840)
Dana describes the lives of sailors in the ports and their exhausting work of hide-curing on the beaches, and he gives close attention to the daily life of the peoples of California: Hispanic, Native American, and European..
Dana was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1867 to 1868.
Dana is buried in Rome's Protestant Cemetery with Keats and Shelley.
www.winthrop.dk /rhdana.html   (2015 words)

  
 Dana Massachusetts, 1890   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The villages and post-offices are Dana Centre and North Dana.
The Springfield, Enfield and Athol Railroad passes through North Dana, which is at the northwest of the town.
Dana was made up of parts of Hardwick, Petersham and Greenwich, and incorporated February 18, 1801.
capecodhistory.us /Mass1890/Dana1890.htm   (408 words)

  
 dana
Dana common is the best preserved area within the four lost towns.
The road to Dana common is still paved and relatively flat.
There are many cellar holes along the way including the cellar hole of the Dana poor house (about 3/4 mile in on the right.) The crown jewel of the hike is Dana common.
www.westfordcomp.com /quabbin/dana.html   (403 words)

  
 Dana McLean Greeley: The First Unitarian Universalist President
Dana arrived in the autumn of 1935 in youthful vigor to rejuvenate the venerable institution.
Dana succumbed to their pleadings and was soon installed at the Concord church with the additional endowed title of minister-at-large for the state of New Hampshire.
Dana was either talking with religious leaders in India, Japan, Transylvania, or in contrast presenting a daughter at a debutante cotillion.
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/greeley.html   (3296 words)

  
 News about Faith and Dana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Monday, January 24: Astyra Corporation (where Dana is the President) hits the Top 5 of Richmond's Rising 25 (a comprehensive list of the 25 fastest growing companies in the Richmond area) for the second year in a row.
Tuesday, June 22: The 2004 induction ceremony (and subsequent dinner) for the Washington, DC baillage of the Chaine was held at the new Mandarin Oriental hotel in Northeast Washington.
Wednesday, August 20: Dana has been selected to be included in a biographical directory published by Marquis Who's Who, the leading biographical reference publisher of the highest achievers and contributors from across the country and around the world.
www.danalove.com /news.html   (1415 words)

  
 Case D-953: 452-458 Massachusetts Avenue
The applicant, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was notified of an initial determination of significance and a public hearing was scheduled for September 4.
Dana was also a five-time delegate to the Continental Congress and an elector of the President in 1789.
Dana was married to Elizabeth Ellery of Newport, Rhode Island, the daughter of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
www.cambridgema.gov /~Historic/d953memo.html   (2517 words)

  
 Dana, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stone marker at the center of the former town of Dana, Massachusetts.
Dana is a former town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
Unlike Prescott, the public is allowed to visit the former town of Dana, albeit by foot, as the old, narrow road is blocked off to cars.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dana,_Massachusetts   (215 words)

  
 Dana McLean Greeley
Dana McLean Greeley (July 5, 1908-June 13, 1986), a Unitarian minister, peace activist, and civil rights leader, was the last president of the American Unitarian Association (AUA) and the founding president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).
Dana was born in Lexington, Massachusetts into a longtime Unitarian family.
Dana was president of the church's Young People's Religious Union (YPRU), represented the YPRU on the Parish committee, and led youth summer conferences at Star Island.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/danamcleangreeley.html   (2348 words)

  
 William Goodwin Dana Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dana received the following reply, "To this the worthy Political Chief replies from San Diego, under date of May 1, 1828, that the application could not be acted upon as yet since the Mexican Authorities had not replied to Senor Dana's application for citizenship forwarded sometime in January ultimo.
In 1839, Dana moved to a 37,000 acre Mexican land grant in Nipomo and built the Dana Adobe which is a story and one-half with a cupola on the south end.
However, two of the Dana boys were out in the field when the raid started and they ran through the brush and kept on going until they got to another ranch in Guadalupe for help, but the bandits were gone by the time help came from there.
danaadobe.org /dana.htm   (6631 words)

  
 Communications Thaumaturgy - Dana Love
Dana is a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award contest for the Virginia region.
Astyra Corporation (where Dana is the President) hits the Top 5 of Richmond's Rising 25 (a comprehensive list of the 25 fastest growing companies in the Richmond area) for the second year in a row.
Dana's background will be profiled in the 59th Who's Who in America, due out in October.
www.danalove.com   (283 words)

  
 Richard Henry Dana
Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels.
Dana was an antislavery activist, and in 1848 he helped found the Free-Soil Party.
Dana's writing provides a glimpse into San Diego history, describing Old Town as it was in 1835 and the "hide trade" (curing and trimming cattle hides for export) on Point Loma's La Playa.
www.sandiegohistory.org /bio/dana/dana.htm   (391 words)

  
 The Official Dana Gould Website
Dana describes his hometown as the most ironically named town in the country - a gray, dingy little factory town that had no hope within 500 miles.
As a child, Dana was not afraid of the dark or monster movies, but his nightlight seemed creepy and anytime a clown appeared on TV, he ran from the room.
Once the fascist prison camp known in America as 'high school' was over, Gould attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and studied Communications and Theatre.
www.danagould.com /about.html   (591 words)

  
 Dana Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dana Home residents have the privacy they desire, plus the convenience and companionship of living within a small community.
The Dana Home is also a short drive to Routes 2, 2A and 128/95, with easy access to a wide array of regional healthcare services, historic sites and cultural attractions.
In keeping with the Dana Home's rich tradition of service to local elders, residency preference is given to Lexington residents or those who have family in Lexington.
www.danahome.org   (256 words)

  
 Programs and Schools in Massachusetts - At TeenProgram.info
Dana Hall is a Traditional School located at Wellesley, MA for Females ages 11-18, typical stay is 9 months.
Dana Hall is committed to fostering excellence in academics, the arts, and athletics within a vibrant, caring community.
Deerfield Academy, Massachusetts, prepares its students for both college and the world beyond, yet its graduates return often, remembering the Academy for the important role it played in their lives.
www.teenprogram.info /schools/index?state=ma   (1399 words)

  
 Lacemaking in colonial Ipswich, Massachusetts Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
The Ipswich industry is documented in an exchange of letters prompted by the first United States census of 1790 between the Reverend Joseph Dana (1742-1827), the pastor of the South Church of Ipswich from 1765 until his death,(5) and George Cabot (1752-1823), soon to be the United States Senator from Massachusetts.
Dana was asked, presumably by Cabot, to describe the industries active in the town, their size, and the value of their production.
In Dana's final accounting of lacemaking in the town he reported to Cabot on January 24, 1791, that between August 1789 and August 1790 six hundred lacemakers produced 41, 979 yards of lace.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n6_v152/ai_20809836   (945 words)

  
 Verrill Dana News: Five New Lawyers Join Verrill Dana’s Boston Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Verrill Dana’s new attorneys include Gene D. Dahmen, a highly respected lawyer who was the first woman ever to serve as President of the Boston Bar Association, and Donna M. Evans, formerly a partner at the prominent Boston firm of Mintz Levin Cohn Glovsky and Popeo.
Dahmen is one of the leading lawyers in Boston in the field of domestic relations and family law, and served until recently as co-chair of the family law department at her former firm.
Dahmen was recently selected as a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer," an annual peer survey which recognizes the top five percent of all attorneys in the state, and further honored by being selected as one of the "Top 100" among all the lawyers so honored.
www.verrilldana.com /NewsItem.aspx?Id=20   (826 words)

  
 Welcome to Pied Piper Parties and Playschool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dana Passman was born and raised on the near north side of Chicago.
Dana went on to earn her Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood Education with a minor in Counseling/ Psychology in 1992 from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dana believes in Piaget's theory that play is the work of the child.
www.piedpiperparties.com /dana.html   (159 words)

  
 Dana Group Associates
Prior to joining Dana Group Associates she worked as an Associate Psychologist at Hutchings Psychiatric Center in New York and as a Staff Neuropsychologist with the Division of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine.
Her previous professional positions have included: Consulting Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Assistant Director of an adult inpatient unit at The Cambridge Hospital, and Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard University.
In addition to his position with Dana Group Associates, Dr. Gotthelf is a Psychologist in the Newton Public Schools and was Director of Student Services at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School District.
www.dana-group.com /about/staff.html   (1836 words)

  
 Dana - Ghost Town
The whole of Dana Common is still there, surrounded by walls, sidewalks and cellar holes.
This is in regards to the town of Dana, Massachusetts.
Another Massachusetts note about the movie "In Dreams" is that the scenes of her in the mental hospital were filmed at the old mental hospital in Northampton, MA Tom...
www.ghosttowns.com /states/ma/dana.html   (294 words)

  
 News: Greeley Library Dedication   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dana Greeley's portrait overlooks his desk in the new Dana McLean Greeley Library at UUA headquarters in Boston.
With an outpouring of fond memories, respect and gratitude, the Dana McLean Greeley Library was dedicated on December 4, 2000 at UUA Headquarters.
Born in 1908 in Lexington, Massachusetts, Dana Greeley was educated in the Lexington schools, Harvard College, and the Harvard Divinity School.
www.uua.org /news/greeley   (583 words)

  
 Dana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sophia Dana, a nineteenth-century feminist, a Transcendentalist and later a Catholic
Dana, Massachusetts, United States, a former town that was disincorporated as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir
Dana Meadows, are meadows at the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, at the foot of Mount Dana
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dana   (574 words)

  
 danapaul.com - weddings and private parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dana has recently succumbed to the lure of performing jazz in its purer form.
Dana is also featured vocalist with S. Florida's most extraordinary big band, the Peter Graves' Atlantean Driftwood Band, hosting the annual Sanibel Jazz on the Green festival.
Whether you're listening to Dana's rendition of 'You Don't Know What Love Is' with his subtle, drop-dead bluesy phrasing and vocal range, or the break-neck speed lyric and extraordinary vocal percussion solo on his original vocal version of Chick Corea's 'Sicily,' you know he's right where he belongs.
www.danapaul.com /jazzqt.html   (464 words)

  
 Dana Gould
Dana, you probably know that he grew up in a blue-collar, heavily drinking, Irish-Catholic family in the "weird little town" of Hopedale, Massachusetts.
Dana was not afraid of the dark or monster movies, but his nightlight seemed creepy and anytime a clown appeared on TV, he ran from the room.
Dana Gould expanded his act to a one-man show entitled, "Insomnia," that he took to Manhattan's Second Stage Theatre and Edinburgh's Festival of the Arts (in Scotland!).
www.associatedentertainment.com /aec/National-Acts/Comedians-Category-1/Dana-Gould   (727 words)

  
 Exploring Quabbin: Important or Interesting Dates in Quabbin Reservoir History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was a friend of fellow Massachusetts native, the multi-faceted James Russell Lowell, and many other famous literary figures of the day.
The toll road ran from the Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike in Athol to Monson, crossing the Sixth Massachusetts Turnpike west of Greenwich Village.
Fisk was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature at the young age of 21.
exploringquabbin.blogspot.com /2006/03/important-or-interesting-dates-in.html   (4788 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Dana
Dana, Roxie H. — of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Democrat.
Dana, William — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.
Massachusetts state senate, 1904-06; superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1906-09.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/dana.html   (475 words)

  
 Hadwen Park Congregational Church, Worcester MA
In the Quabbin history calendar for the year of 1989, J. Green captions a picture of the Dana Congregational church this way, (the church) stood on the southeast corner of the common, across from the town hall.  The cellarhole is still evident, as is the front walk to it.
  A news article stating that the Dana congregational church bell found its way to Hadwen Park Church 1938 renovated church was discovered.  This news article said that the bell came from the Dana Federated Church, which has been bought by the state and dismantled as part of the Quabbin Reservoir project.
For nearly 60 years it rang in that valley.  Church bells signify that life is still pulsing and streaming, weeping and laughing in humanity and in the world.
www.homestead.com /hpc/HPC_Bell.html   (1671 words)

  
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During the 1920's it became apparent that Eastern Massachusetts did not have a large enough water supply to satisfy its growing needs for water.
Four towns: Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott were "discontinued" and seven other towns were altered.
A half mile long dam was built on the Swift River in Belchertown MA, and one of the longest tunnels in the world was constructed to carry the water a hundred miles to the east.
www.westfordcomp.com /quabbin   (542 words)

  
 NCCN Institution Profile - Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care
The Dana Farber Jimmy Fund Clinic is specifically designed for the comfort and convenience of pediatric cancer patients and their families, including a playroom and separate infusion rooms (chemotherapy and stem-cell support) for young children and teens.
Another major research initiative, in which Dana Farber leads, is the quality of life outcomes that confront survivors.
The results of this research are already being applied to help improve the quality of life of the growing number of children who survive cancer.
www.nccn.org /members/profiles/dfci.asp   (5445 words)

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