Arts and Leisure
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11.2K2The Real People Behind Little Women
A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
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13.4K4How the Jewish Immigrants Came to New England
It’s an oft-told story about the Jewish immigrant who rose from poverty on New York’s Lower East Side to prominence through hard...
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5.8KWhy the Boston Anticks Barged Into Rich People’s Homes at Christmas
Toward the end of the 18th century, the Boston Anticks used to burst into mansions at Christmastime and stage silly plays before...
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9.5K2Clement Moore, Hebrew Scholar and Reluctant Author of ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’
Clement Moore took far more pride in the Hebrew dictionary he wrote than in A Visit from St. Nicholas, which he also wrote....
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4.4K1Olivia Langdon Cleans Up Mark Twain’s Act — And His Copy
Just one look at a photograph of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain was done for. Love at first sight is how he...
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15.5KBlack Cake, A Christmas Treat Emily Dickinson Loved To Bake
If something called a black cake sounds like a perfect Christmas sweet from a famously reclusive poet prone to black moods –...
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