June 29 , 1886Lenox, Massachusetts May 15 , 1983Washington, D.C., United States James VanDerZee, in full James Augustus Joseph VanDerZee, VanDerZee also spelled Van Der Zee (born June 29 , 1886 Lenox, Mass., U.S. died May 15 , 1983 Washington, D.C ., American photographer, whose portraits chronicled the Harlem Renaissance.
Upshaw also served on the faculties of the Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts, and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
He studied further at Tanglewood, in Lenox, Mass., winning the Koussevitzky Composition Prize in 1990.
A writers' colony flourished in Lenox in the 19th century; authors who lived or visited there include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Catharine Sedgwick, Henry Ward Beecher, and Edith Wharton.
June 21 , 1925Troy, New York March 13 , 2006Lenox, Massachusetts Maureen Stapleton Maureen Lois Stapletonn), (born June 21 , 1925 Troy, N.Y. died March 13 , 2006 Lenox, Mass ., American actress who was one of only a few performers to win the three major American show business honours the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Emmy Award.
Until World War I, the Carnegies alternated between Skibo Castle in northern Scotland, their home in New York City, and their summer house "Shadowbrook" in Lenox, Massachusetts.
The 22-term congressman clung on even as Harlem gentrified, with young white and black hipsters crowding onto café terraces on Lenox Avenue and tourists flooding the soul-food restaurants.
Obama canvassers are also thicker on the ground, hawking their man and this in the shadow of Bill Clinton's office, located here in Harlem's heart.But at Sylvia's, a soul-food restaurant on Lenox Avenue beloved of Mr Clinton and Al Sharpton, the patrons and staff are of mixed opinions.
Here's what it prevented from happening: After flooding the No. 3 line tracks to the south, and destroying millions of dollars worth of equipment, the Harlem River would have continued south, following Lenox Avenue to about 142nd Street, a junction where the 3 line joins the 2 line, which runs to and from the Bronx.
Here's a highlight:A good place to see how and why the Metropolitan Transportation Authority just barely survived Sandy last fall is the entrance to a tunnel at 148th Street and Lenox Avenue, in Central Harlem, where, just before the storm hit, a crew of carpenters built a plywood dam 8½ feet tall by about 55 feet wide.
In 1950 he invited other African American authors to meet in a Harlem storefront office on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue to critique each other's work.
