Arts and Leisure
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6.6KA Brief History of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
Don Featherstone made landscape history in 1957 when he designed the plastic pink flamingo for a Leominster, Mass., plastics company. Little did...
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5.9KSix Fun Facts About New England Olympians
Hundreds of New England Olympians have won, lost and placed in the summer games since they restarted in Athens in 1896. New...
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3.6KJohn Margolies Photographs Roadside America
John Margolies in 1970 caused a stir, and not a good one, in highbrow architectural citcles. He did it by putting on...
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4.7KBanbury Cake, the Puritans’ Favorite Treat
On Dec. 24, 1706, Judge Samuel Sewall brought a Banbury cake to a sick friend in Boston. Sewall, best known as one...
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6.3KWhen Ernie Shore Overshadowed Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth cast a very large shadow, but on June 23, 1917, Ernie Shore overshadowed the big guy. He even managed to...
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3.8KThe She-She-She Camps of the Great Depression
The Civilian Conservation Corps gave millions of young men a job and their families a lifeline with money they sent home every...
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