All posts tagged "Cambridge"
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3.1K5MassachusettsThe Boston Pops Orchestra Takes a Sleigh Ride
The much-loved Christmas song Sleigh Ride was written during an August heat wave for the Boston Pops Orchestra. It didn't even have...
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3.5K3MassachusettsHow the Longfellow Bridge Got its Name
Elbridge Gerry was the first person allowed to walk over the new West Boston Bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge 220 years ago...
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9.3K5UncategorizedWhen New England Candy Was King: 15 Sweet Facts
New England candy ruled the American confectionery industry from colonial times right through the mid 1900s. Many candy makers made their sugary...
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3.2K9MassachusettsTwo Different Bostons Shaped Malcolm X and MLK (Pt. 1)
When Martin Luther King, Jr., moved to Boston in 1951 to study for his graduate degree in philosophy, Malcolm X was already...
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3.5K5MassachusettsSurprising List of 10 New Englanders Turned On By Timothy Leary
When Timothy Leary famously turned on, tuned in, and dropped out, he took a lot of people with him. Leary, the LSD guru...
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13.4K13MassachusettsAnti-Irish Know Nothing Mob Burns a Charlestown Convent in 1834
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...
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1.5KIrregularsHappy Fourth of July, 2013
With the approach of July 4th, the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence is hard to ignore. As an historical...
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4.5K1MassachusettsHow the Polaroid Camera Was Born at a Connecticut Boys Camp
The Polaroid Corporation was born in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922 when a teacher showed a 13-year-old how to take...
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3.0K3MassachusettsAnna Lowell Woodbury, The Forgotten Cambridge Chef
Few remember Anna Lowell Woodbury, the blueblood who spent her life tending to sick soldiers and teaching poor women -- including poor...
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10.7K31MaineClassic Movies Shot in New England, 13 Award-Winners
Hundreds of filmmakers have come to New England since the turn of the last century and some have shot classic movies here....