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Sponsored By 1 Real Estate The home built in 1875 needs work but has been freshly painted. There's also a detached studio on the property, as well as two barns. Maggie Fusek , Patch Staff Posted Reply PETALUMA, CA — Here's your chance to peek inside a beautiful, historic Victorian home built in 1875 in Petaluma. The piece of Petaluma history is listed for $1.39 million and admittedly needs some work but retains period details and craftmanship throughout such as redwood and fir floors. The interior has been freshly painted from the floors to the ceilings, allowing buyers to move right in and start restoring the other areas while they enjoy being surrounded by other historic homes. Plus, there's a detached studio that can be used for guests or as a rental or an office. The property also consists of two barns, the smaller of which may be one of the original barns in the city of Petaluma. … [Read more...] about Historic Victorian Home Just Listed For Sale In Petaluma

0 Community Corner Looking for things to do this weekend throughout the Inland Empire? Patch has you covered Susan C. Schena , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply RIVERSIDE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES, CA — To keep your weekend fun and lively, Patch has rounded up some entertaining events going on throughout the Inland Empire — from the western reaches to the mountains, deserts and communities in between. Some are free. Some have a fee. Whether you opt for an activity close to home or a mini day trip, see what's slated this weekend from Saturday, March 18 to Sunday, March 19. Double-check with event organizers to confirm dates, times and locations, in case activities were updated since posted on Patch. AND DON'T MISS: St. Patrick's Day IE Dining Guide To Corned Beef & Irish Specials ------------ Victorian Tea Party: Gilman Ranch , Banning Community Breakfast Speaker Series , … [Read more...] about IE Weekend: St. Paddy’s; Stadium Worship Fest; Civil War Reenactment

PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS, N.J. — Case number 65935 involved a 44-year-old man brought from the jail in Morris County to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital on May 29, 1956. Described as “rambling” in his conversation, found by police “wandering aimlessly on the highways,” he told the admitting physician, “I wrote about 8,000 songs and I got $10,000 for writing.” So it was that Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, better known to the world as Woody, was found to have “grandiose ideas” and to lack “judgment” and “insight.” Eventually found to have Huntington’s disease, the author of such songs as “This Land Is Your Land” and “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh” spent the next five years on Ward 40 of the Victorian building. Now, despite having solicited offers in 2013 for redevelopment of the hospital, the state says it is too far gone to preserve and plans to knock it down and return the site to parkland. Unless a last-minute stay is granted to a group that has sued to prevent it, demolition of … [Read more...] about Preservationists Fight to Save a Former Asylum in New Jersey

Could there be a more excruciatingly awkward TV character than Tom Wambsgans in “Succession”? Played with understated comic glee by the British actor Matthew Macfadyen, Tom manages to simultaneously exist on all points of the show’s power spectrum: bullied, bullying and wafting helplessly in between. Over most of three seasons, Tom has stayed one and a half steps behind the machinations at Waystar Royco, the company run by his imperious father-in-law, Logan Roy (Brian Cox), while being treated with casual contempt by his wife, Shiv (Sarah Snook). So it came as a shock when Tom pulled himself together at the end of Season 3 to orchestrate a stunning power play, teaming with Logan against Shiv and two of her brothers in an epic battle over Waystar’s future. Not that this guarantees Tom will end up on top in the fourth and final season of “Succession,” which begins Sunday on HBO. (Whatever “on top” really means when the pole is as greasy and compromised as this one.) “Tom … [Read more...] about Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’

ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Fifteen years ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote a dirge about Asbury Park, his adopted musical hometown, called “My City of Ruins ,” in which he lamented the fate of this forlorn seaside resort: Young men on the corner Like scattered leaves The boarded up windows The empty streets. This summer, Mr. Springsteen took note of the city’s changing fortunes during a performance at Asbury’s Wonder Bar. As he introduced another song, “Atlantic City,” he said, “But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.” He paused for a moment, before continuing, “Maybe Asbury Park is back?” — to cheers from the crowd. It is a question that has puzzled beachgoers for decades, as most other towns on the Jersey Shore thrived. Today, there are still plenty of pockets of abandonment and neglect, but after decades of false starts, Asbury is finally showing signs of a rejuvenation. In the early 2000s, a handful of summer visitors had the beach to themselves, while the … [Read more...] about Asbury Park, Long Neglected, Shows Signs of Rejuvenation

Maryanne Amacher, an influential composer whose experimental sound installations and multimedia works sometimes required full buildings to present their powerful melding of electronic timbres and live, natural ambience, died on Thursday in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She was 71 and lived in Kingston, N.Y. Ms. Amacher’s death was announced by Micah Silver and Robert The, artists and friends of Ms. Amacher who recently began assembling an online archive of her work at maryanneamacher.org. Ms. Amacher was drawn to extremes: some of her scores — for example, the music she composed for the choreographer Merce Cunningham’s “Torse” (1976) — could be so soft as to be nearly inaudible at times. But more typically, she reveled in powerful, high-volume sensory assaults, combining high-pitched electronic chirping and solid bass drones to produce a visceral effect. “With three tape recorders and a huge set of speakers spread out around a darkened room,” Peter Watrous wrote in The New York Times after a … [Read more...] about Maryanne Amacher, 71, Visceral Composer, Dies