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Arts

The Malden Mass. Memories Road Show is coming!

January 31, 2020 Neighborhood View 2
by Sandra Li On Monday, December 9th the Malden Reads organization held their first launch meeting at the Malden Public Library for the Malden Mass. Memories Road Show event that will be held on May 2nd. At the meeting, various other organizations across Malden were present to discuss more details in regards to the road show and volunteering. The Mass. Memories Road Show is a community history program that was first launched in 2004 and is coordinated by the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston). Since then, the event has digitized more than 11,000 photographs from across the state. The roadshow will be a capstone event for the 10th year anniversary of Malden Reads. Carolyn Goldstein, who is a representative from UMass Boston, explained that this event will be a “chance to bring people from all corners of the city together,” as it places an importance on archiving the stories and memories of residents. Goldstein presented a slideshow to all the organizations including Chinese Culture Connection, Malden Historical Society, and Massachusetts Senior Action Council, where she […]
The clock with Roman numerals in Malden Center that says "Malden " above it, set against the nearby tree.
News

Neighborhood View relaunches, invites residents to help tell Malden’s stories  

January 6, 2026 Neighborhood View 2
Neighborhood View, Malden’s community-powered news initiative, has relaunched and extends an invitation to residents: Help tell the stories of Malden.  An upcoming Citizen Journalism 101 workshop welcomes community members to train as citizen reporters, and the program also offers other ways to contribute. The relaunch was formally announced at the Malden City Council meeting on December 16, where founder and coordinator Anne D’Urso-Rose presented an overview of the project’s goals and the variety of ways residents can get involved. D’Urso-Rose now works as a volunteer contractor to Urban Media Arts, where the initiative began in 2014.   “Some of you remember an era when Malden had a daily newspaper and two weeklies. Today, like much of the country, we live with far less local news coverage,” D’Urso-Rose told councilors. “In that landscape, Neighborhood View has emerged as an important part of Malden’s local news ecosystem, providing in-depth news stories that aren’t available anywhere else.”   Neighborhood View trains and mentors citizen reporters — community members who may not have formal journalism backgrounds but who are curious, observant, and want to be more engaged in […]
Education

Education Beyond classrooms:  Nekita Lamour aims to provide experiential learning for students and adults

June 14, 2023 Joy Pearson 0
In May 2020, Malden Reads planned to host the Malden Mass. Memories Road Show (MMRS), a statewide, event-based, participatory digital archiving program, through UMass Boston’s Healey Library, that documents people, places and events in Massachusetts through family photographs and stories. Due to the pandemic, the in-person event could not be held. Since then, Neighborhood View has been contributing photographs and stories online as part of the Malden Mass. Memories Stuck-at-Home Show. The in-person event is now scheduled for April 27, 2024. More info at the end of this article. By Joy Pearson A microcosm of the world, Malden, Mass. has an abundance of cultures, each with its own heritage.  Nekita Lamour, a Malden resident, wants students to learn more about their own heritage.  She knows this will enrich their lives.  She has long desired to help transform education for Blacks, especially Haitian Blacks.  To her, students need experiential learning and learning from professionals outside the classroom. Their perception of their world creates an internal environment, she says, and that “internal environment has to be positive.” Many of […]
History

From Tehran, Iran to Malden: The Life Stories of Parto Khorshidi

February 7, 2023 Michael Cao 2
This article is part of an ongoing Neighborhood View series in connection with the Mass. Memories Road Show (MMRS), a statewide, event-based, participatory digital archiving program produced by the Healey Library at UMass Boston that documents people, places, and events in Massachusetts history through family photographs and stories. When the pandemic upended plans for an in-person MMRS event in Malden (spring 2020), Neighborhood View began this series of profiles to highlight the photographs and stories that residents submitted online to the Malden Mass. Memories Stuck-at-Home Show. Learn more about the MMRS at the end of this article. By Michael Cao Through key photos, Parto Khorshidi revisits important moments from her childhood in Iran, to France where she went on vacation, and to Malden, the city where she now lives. Some were sad moments, but there were good and beautiful moments, too. For Mass. Memories, Khorshidi selected six photos that best represent her life. She believes these photos work like visual art to tell people her life story. “I put a snapshot of certain significant [moments] because your whole life is full of bits and pieces of events,” she […]
Mass. Memories Road Show

Diversity, Service & Solutions: Ramon Norales reflects on his life in Malden

November 22, 2022 Joy Pearson 1
By Joy Pearson In May 2020, Malden Reads planned to host the Malden Mass. Memories Road Show (MMRS), a statewide, event-based, participatory digital archiving program that documents people, places, and events in Massachusetts history through family photographs and stories. Due to the pandemic, the in-person event could not be held. So Neighborhood View, in collaboration with Malden Reads, is contributing photographs and stories online as part of the Malden Mass. Memories Stuck-at-Home Show. The following story continues the series of participant profiles, which focus on photographs and what they mean to that resident of Malden. It was the cultural and ethnic diversity of Malden that attracted Ramon Norales to move here in 1997.  During the past 25 years, Ramon has devoted his life to family, to work, and to his Malden community through his ethics of service and solutions. In 1971, 7 ½-year-old Ramon Norales immigrated to New York City from Spanish-speaking Honduras in Central America to be with his parents.  In New York City, he grew up in Harlem   Later, he attended NYC Technical College in […]