Thursday, December 27, 2012
The peace memorials will remain open to the public, and the Peace Abbey will be able to pay off its debt.
The financially struggling Peace Abbey has been sold to a buyer that plans to restore the buildings and keep the memorials on site available to the public, Founder/Director Lewis M. Randa announced on his website. "The Peace Memorials remain open to the pubic in perpetuity under legal restrictions on the Deed," Randa wrote. "We are now able to pay off the entire debt to the bank and all of our wonderful shareholders and continue with many of the Peace Abbey programs and projects from our Schoolhouse in Millis." Robert Murchison, a Sherborn resident who owns a private investment management firm, bought the abbey’s three buildings and 2.5 acres for $1 million on Dec. 21, the Boston Globe reported. Most of the abbey's holdings were donated to…
Friday, December 9, 2011
Where is Peace Abbey's Gandhi Statue?
When many of the Occupy Boston protesters left their Dewey Square encampment last night per order of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, so did the statue of Mohandas Gandhi owned by the Peace Abbey in Sherborn. The Gandhi statue is missing according to Lewis Randa, director of the Peace Abbey, who thinks that it was taken in order protect it from being destroyed. “Well, I don’t have it and we’re not sure who has it,” Randa said. “We decided not to pick it up last night and we were requested to leave it there because it served as a reminder of the importance of non-violence, and in the midst of the turmoil of the moment after the eviction notice was given by the mayor I felt that if ever there was a time Gandhi needed to stick it out through the …
Friday, August 19, 2011
Two teens are raising money for the Peace Abbey in Sherborn with their street performances in Cambridge.
With the Peace Abbey in Sherborn having recently staved off foreclosure, two teens are doing their part to help raise money for the Abbey. Bianca Mase and Ollie Luey have been great friends since they were young. Now 15, Ollie is a sophomore at Dover-Sherborn High School and Bianca is a sophomore at Medford High. Last year after the Peace Abbey Camp they came up with an idea to street perform in Harvard Square, Cambridge to raise money. Bianca juggles while Ollie serenades her with the accordion. Together the duo dresses up in their black and white striped outfits and make-up to entertain the crowds of people walking by. Just last week they made $57, which they donated to the Peace Abbey, while performing during the "Monday Night Movies” …
Friday, July 8, 2011
In an interview with Urmston, he recalls his hometown influences.
Rock guitarist, vocalist, social activist and lifelong Sherborn resident Chad Urmston recently played to a sold out crowd with his band Dispatch at the Boston’s TD Garden. Patch caught up with Chad a few days after their show. After playing at the Garden, Urmston said, “It was a trip to play there after the Bruins won [the Stanley Cup].” His humble beginnings were in rural Sherborn where he starting playing trombone at Pine Hill Elementary School in the fourth grade and continued all the way through college. He said at Pine Hill he was taught by Mrs. Paula Winter. “I think her name is different now,” he said he recently got a nice letter from her. Among those who nurtured his love of music were Mr. Nolte, who taught him trombone at the …
Benjamin Paulin
4:02 pm on Friday, December 9, 2011
Thanks Acacia. I spoke with Lewis Randa from the Abbey earlier and he said that they've been in contact with the person who has the statue. more ›