Arts and Leisure
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3.8KHenry Savage Puts The Showgirls in the Broadway Show
At age 20, Mildred Taylor Mills’ future seemed stable. Heir to her father’s modest fortune, the Westport, Conn. girl was “for a...
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10.3KWhat Killed the Marlborough Pie?
The Marlborough Pie once graced many a New England table during the winter holidays. It ranked up there with the pumpkin, the...
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13.2KRichard Potter, Celebrity Black Magician of the 19th Century
Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
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62.2K8Italian Thanksgiving, or How One Ethnic Group Resisted American Food
The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....
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6.3KRebekah Harkness, the Scorned Socialite of Watch Hill, R.I.
Rebekah Harkness spent much of the Standard Oil fortune she inherited on the ballet. Not just going to performances, but sponsoring entire...
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4.7KWonderland, Revere’s Brief, Brilliant Million-Dollar Amusement Park
In 1903 and 1904 the face of American public amusement changed with the successful opening of two new parks in Coney Island:...
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