e newsletterInnovator of the charles river museum of industry & Innovation MARCHSEPTEMBER 2016 2016 This Month at the Charles From River Museum e September kicks off a jam-packed fall Director’s Desk season of events at the Charles River Museum beginning on Wednesday evening, the 21st, with a screening of the documentary Film “Rex Trailer’s Boomtown.” This event, celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the beloved Boomtown, which premiered in 1956, will be hosted by filmmaker Michael Bavaro whose boyhood idol was Rex Trailer, and who was fortunate enough to work with Rex for the last 10 years of his life. Greetings from the Charles River No, there is no detailed road map of where we’ll be taking The Innovator in the Museum of Industry & Innovation! months to come. But in this month’s issue The Waltham Film Factory kicks o it’s Premiere Fall Season with a screening of the documentary film: we know we want to accomplish two things: You’re now reading the first issue Rex Trailer s of a revival of an old tradition here at the First, we simply seek to begin, to publish ’ museum: a monthly newsletter. Dormant the first new issue in many years. Second, (Boomtown) we want to bring to your attention the rich Filmmaker Michael Bavaro will be on hand to discuss how he got his childhood hero to agree to have his story told for many years now, The Innovator is a way and the buddy experience they shared. to share both quick, bulleted information array of programming we’ve assembled for you to partake in this fall if you have the Wednesday, September 21st about upcoming events as well as longer-form Doors open at 6:30pm. The screening begins at 7:00pm. time and inclination. After the screening will be a Q&A with Michael Bavaro, stories about artifacts, places, and people Jillian Trailer-Rollock, daughter of Rex Trailer Beginning Wednesday, September 21st, Sergeant Billy O'Brien , and more surprises! important to the museum that originated in Refreshments will be served. a time well before the Internet became the and running until mid-December we have Charles River Museum over 20 events including history talks, folk, of Industry & Innovation dominant medium for information sharing 154 Moody St, Waltham 781-893-5410 www.charlesrivermuseum.org that it is today. rock, and jazz concerts, film screenings, film making workshops, a modern dance WALTHAM Tickets $10 While we do maintain a website to Available in advance performance, and more—all relating in some online via Eventbrite: keep you current with the Charles River bit.ly/2c1dcR4 FACTORY RexTrailer.TV Museum—charlesrivermuseum.org—I way to our mission to educate and inspire, believe that a monthly publication of this and to call attention to American innovation. Special guests at the screening include nature still has unique value, both as a Rex’s Boomtown sidekick Sgt. Billy O’Brien way to convey information in a comforting –So, welcome back to The Innovator– and Rex’s daughter, Jillian Trailer-Rollock. analog fashion, but also as a time capsule. Mr. Bavaro which will also share many film We are certainly an institution of American Sincerely yours, clips of Waltham such as footage of Grover industrial history, but we also have a Cronin’s famous Easter Parade from Rex’s history of our own, where each generation archive. In fact, Rex’s saddle will also be on of volunteers and staff people, and our display at the Museum that night! unfolding calendar of exhibits and events, Admission to the screening is just $10, leave legacies of their own that deserve to Bob Perry refreshments included (beer & wine for be recorded. Executive Director those 21+!). continued– The Charles River Museum – 154 Moody Street, Waltham, Ma 02453 – 781-893-5410 CharlesRiverMuseum.org THE INNOVATOR • SEPTEMBER 2016 “This Month at the Charles River Museum” Moody developed, Spotlighting Three CRMII continued– with Francis Cabot Educational Programs Lowell, the power To learn more, please look for the link loom, the crucial on the Events page on our website: breakthrough Watch City Bike Lab charlesrivermuseum.org. that anchored the The Boomtown screening also just so Continuing the “Lowell/Waltham” happens to be the kick-off event for a new tradition of leadership system of textile museum project called the Waltham Film and excellence in production Factory. A group of local filmmakers has bicycling in Waltham, at the Boston come together to create an educational the Watch City Bike Manufacturing program at the museum to teach amateurs Lab—a community project that has found Company, right here at what is now known basic filmmaking techniques. The a home at our Museum—is open the as the Francis Cabot Lowell Mill on the inaugural season of Waltham Film Factory Museum’s operating hours every Sunday banks of the Charles River, and the site of programming consists of three matched through October, helping people learn the Charles River Museum. - This Mill Talk pairs of events—Wednesday Screenings how to repair and maintain their bicycles. is FREE! Learn more and reserve your seat followed by Saturday Workshops. And their services are free! - Learn more at charlesrivermuseum.org/events! This month’s screening of “Rex at charlesrivermuseum.org/watch-city-bike- We wrap up September with the kickoff Trailer’s Boomtown” is paired with a lab/ concert of the 2nd Shift Music Series, seven filmmaking workshop entitled “Preserving concerts featuring rock and folk music Media Memories” on Saturday, September Waltham Film Factory innovators. On September 29th we’re very 24th. At this workshop experienced excited to present the Thalia Zedek Band. The Waltham WALTHAM American singer and guitarist Thalia Zedek, Film Factory is a new, influenced by punk music and Patti Smith, collaborative educational Family memories. is a widely praised innovator in the indie project of the Museum rock scene, having led bands including Uzi, run by established FACTORY Photo legacies. Live Skull, and Come. - Tickets are $20 and filmmakers in our community volunteering are available now at charlesrivermuseum. their time. The Waltham Film Factory was org/events (and they include beverages— created to encourage and develop filmmaking Visual timelines of beer & wine if you’re 21+!), where you’ll also skills in our community. The inaugural find more information about Thalia Zedek, fall series of WFF events consists of three important life including several videos! matched pairs of screenings and workshops experiences. in September, October, and November. - Filmmaking Workshop: Learn more at charlesrivermuseum.org/ Preserving Media Memories waltham-film-factory/ filmmakersSaturday, September will teach 24 participants 10am - 2pmhow to Charles river museum of industry & innovation create154 Moody short St, Waltham videos 781-893-5410 documenting www.charlesrivermuseum.org important 154 Innovation Adventures peopleJoin us for thisor Waltham life Filmmoments Factory Workshop using designed tofilm, help you get video, started 2 nd SHIFT nd Moody St andcreating sound a video project clips, documenting photographs, important life moments and for yourself, other your music2 SHIFT series Museum Trustee and the founder of loved ones, and other special people in your life. music series memorabiliaCrafted to naturally pair thatwith the September we all 21st screeninghave of Rexcollected Trailer’s Boomtown, over this Waltham FutureFixers—www.futurefixers.com—Rudy workshop will be taught by a group of experienced and accomplished filmmakers including atat the the charles charles river river museum museum781-893-5410 the years.Michael - Bavaro,The producer Boomtown and director of that documentary.documentary Ruggles leads our ongoing series of after serves as an exampleWorkshop of $40 orpreserving media school and vacation week workshops for WALTHAM $30 if you purchased a ticket memories, the culminationto the Sept. 21st screening. of a process of hunting andFACTORY gatheringOnline Registration and then stitching Thalia Zedek Band togetherWORKSHOP related memorabiliaRequired Register via Evenbrite: to tell a story Thalia Zedek has one PHOTO: By Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA of the most enduring through video. - Visit our Events page at and distinctive voices charlesrivermuseum.org to sign up for this in modern rock music workshop. The fee is $40, but just $30 if — a voice like no other you attend the Wednesday screening of “Rex Thursday Trailer’s Boomtown.” September 29th Up next: the next in our series of “MIll Doors Open 7pm Talks,” lectures and panel discussions on inventions, innovations and events that stand out in the ongoing history of the American students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 that teach Industrial Revolution. On Wednesday, creative problem solving, investigation, and For Complete Information and Tickets, Please Visit: September 28th, we’re very excited to CharlesRiverMuseum.Org collaboration skills, all in the midst of the be welcoming to the Museum biographer Museum’s cool innovations! The next six- Tony Connors, Ph.D., who will be giving a week session begins October 6th. talk on the Waltham years of the “Ingenious CHARLES RIVER MUSEUM Learn more at charlesrivermuseum. of INDUSTRY & INNOVATION Machinist” Paul Moody, after whom 154 Moody Street • Waltham, MA 02453 • 781 - 893 - 5410 org/innovation-adventures Waltham’s iconic Moody Street is named. Mr. charlesrivermuseum.org.