{"id":9305,"date":"2009-05-06T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2021-03-26T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:16:08","slug":"the-united-nations-comes-to-framingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2009\/05\/06\/around-town\/the-united-nations-comes-to-framingham\/","title":{"rendered":"The United Nations Comes to Framingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> -- In 1946, a United Nations search committee, accompanied by Governor Maurice Tobin visited Framingham. The committee inspected the Doeskin Hill area as a possible site for the permanent location for the United Nations. Back then, the idea was to find a relatively unpopulated convenient location to build a small United Nations city.<\/p>\n<p>While the committee was impressed, Henry Dennison, who lived on Doeskin, and Henry Ford<!--more-->, who owned much of the land under consideration, objected.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations home base was eventually determined when John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated money and land in New York City to establish its headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, May 17th, U.N. representatives will again visit Framingham as Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, U.N. Under-secretary-General will be speaking at the Memorial Building.<\/p>\n<p>The event, called \"The United Nations comes to Framingham,\" begin at 2 p.m. at Nevins Hall, and will feature a procession of flags of the United Nations members, the dedication of an 8-foot United Nations Peace Pole, an interfaith peace ceremony, and Chowdhury, who will speak about the importance of peace in the world.<\/p>\n<p>A military honor guard, town officials, civic organizations and state representatives will be present. There will also be musical entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>All and welcome and admission is free, although people are asked to bring a non-perishable food item to be donated to local food banks, and a $5 donation to benefit the Framingham Tax Relief Fund.<\/p>\n<p>This U.N. event is being brought to Framingham by Nicholas Paganella, Earl Fahey and David Cohen whose goal is to provide free and meaningful entertainment to families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8212; In 1946, a United Nations search committee, accompanied by Governor Maurice Tobin visited Framingham. The committee inspected the Doeskin Hill area as a possible site for the permanent location for the United Nations. Back then, the idea was to find a relatively unpopulated convenient location to build a small United Nations city. While the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2009\/05\/06\/around-town\/the-united-nations-comes-to-framingham\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[4231,4234,4236,4233,4229,1102,4237,4235,4232,4230],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-town","tag-anwarul-karim-chowdhury","tag-david-cohen","tag-doeskin-hill","tag-earl-fahey","tag-henry-dennison","tag-henry-ford","tag-john-d-rockefeller","tag-maurice-tobin","tag-nicholas-paganella","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9306,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}