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What Was the First Photo Ever Taken?

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is responsible for the first photo ever taken. Almost lost to time, the image used a process called heliography.

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A changing landscape: How the pandemic has altered the look of downtown Northampton

Published: 4/9/2021 2:56:31 PM
NORTHAMPTON — Longtime downtown business owner Bill Muller thought he had a plan — consolidate his Northampton businesses, Guild Art Supply and Pierce’s Frameshop, and his Easthampton printing business, Big Wheel Press, into one space in the old Serio’s Market storefront on State Street in Northampton.
The spot was ideal, complete with parking. “We were working on floor plans and everything,” he said. “Then COVID hit.”
Surrounded by so much economic uncertainty, Muller scrapped those plans entirely. Instead of staying in downtown Northampton, where he’s run Guild Art Supply for 37 years, he made the tough decision last year to move the store and framing shop to his press space in Easthampton.

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Packard's in Northampton sets reopening date; owner says staying shuttered 'not an option for us'

Packard’s in Northampton sets reopening date; owner says staying shuttered ‘not an option for us’
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
Packard's is located at 14 Masonic St, in Northampton. It had closed in November 202 because of the pandemic, but will reopen its doors on Thursday, March 18. (Don Treeger | The Republican photo)
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NORTHAMPTON — Packard’s, which billed itself as “The Bar that Never Closes,” will reopen March 18 after a winter-long COVID shutdown.
But Packard’s outspoken owner, Robert McGovern, said Monday the downtown economy is very different now from a year ago and has even changed since he closed Packard’s in November.

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Museum Notebook: How the Brady Stand made life easier for photographers and clients

Museum Notebook: How the Brady Stand made life easier for photographers and clients
7 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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A trick image of a photographer capturing himself modelling the use of a Brady Stand, 1893. Photo / Supplied
Whanganui Chronicle
By: Sandi Black
When Nicéphore Niépce created the first surviving photograph in 1826-1827, the process took over eight hours.
The resulting image of the view from his window at Les Gras was blurry and grainy with shadows and reflections in opposing directions. But for the first time the image was captured permanently, and photography was born.
With time and refinement, the process became quicker, so when daguerreotype portrait photographs started becoming popular and affordable in the early 1840s the sitter only had to wait a minute and a half for their likeness to be captured, depending on the amount of light in the studio.

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India House wins Northampton liquor license in lottery

India House wins Northampton liquor license in lottery
India House on State Street in Northampton. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Published: 2/5/2021 8:55:30 AM
NORTHAMPTON — Seven restaurants and bars entered a lottery for a liquor license held by the city’s License Commission on Wednesday and one lucky winner emerged.
“We choose at random out of an old-school bingo spinner from the city clerk,” said Annie Lesko, the clerk for the License Commission, who also works in the mayor’s office.
India House on State Street was chosen as the winner at the commission’s meeting Wednesday. The license, which allows bars and restaurants to serve beer, wine and liquor, was previously used by the Sierra Grille on Strong Avenue before it closed this fall.

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Off The Menu: Holiday grab of news and notes

Off The Menu: Holiday grab of news and notes
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
The Miss Florence Diner in Florence is making Christmas season celebrations a bit easier this year.
“Miss Flo” is offer pick-up meals on Christmas Eve day and Christmas morning. Four options are available: spiral glazed ham with au gratin potatoes, a traditional turkey dinner, roast pork, and classic lasagna.
Whole pies at Christmas are a Miss Flo tradition, with eight different varieties available for advance ordering.
The Miss Florence Diner will also be open Christmas morning, serving breakfast only, from 8 a.m. until noon.
Contact the Miss Florence Diner at (413) 584-3137

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Northampton's Bistro Les Gras ends 12-year run

Northampton’s Bistro Les Gras ends 12-year run
Bistro Les Gras in Northampton Wednesday, December 16, 2020. —STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Bistro Les Gras in Northampton Wednesday, December 16, 2020. —STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Modified: 12/16/2020 4:43:53 PM
NORTHAMPTON — Farm-to-fork French restaurant Bistro Les Gras, a high-end fixture next door to the Smith College campus, became the latest local business casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic as it announced its closure online Wednesday.
The announcement marked the end of a 12-year run by the downtown dining establishment, which opened during the Great Recession.
Co-owners and married couple Elizabeth Martinez (manager) and Daniel Martinez (chef), bid their “adieu” in a Facebook post and on their website, thanking community members for their patronage at the restaurant over the years.

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Bistro Les Gras in Northampton closing after 12 years

Bistro Les Gras in Northampton closing after 12 years as COVID-19 wounds restaurant industry
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
NORTHAMPTON — Bistro Les Gras, the French-style farm-to-table restaurant on West Street, will not reopen this spring after what had been announced as a temporary closure due to COVID-19.
Instead, owners Daniel and Elizabeth Martinez said Wednesday they will not renew their lease. The restaurant is closing after 12 years.
“A lot of thoughts crossed our mind as we came to this decision‚” they wrote on the restaurant’s Facebook page. “We thought of our amazing staff over the years, and how many have become some of our dearest friends. We reminisced about all the families we have had the pleasure to watch grow over the years. We thought of our amazing regulars who have become as much a part of our daily lives as our own families, perhaps even more so. It became easy to see that Bistro Les Gras belongs to all of these people as much as it belongs to us. We could not be more proud of that.”

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