Arts and Leisure
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5.7KSamuel Morse Paints 38 Masterpieces (And Then Invents the Telegraph)
Samuel Morse as a young man wanted nothing more than to be an artist, an aspiration upon which his Puritan parents frowned....
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6.6KEllen Robbins, Flower Painter and Perennial Prank Victim
What was it about Ellen Robbins that inspired people to play practical jokes on her? She made a good living as a...
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4.9KRachel Field, Rediscovered on a Maine Island
Rachel Field today is remembered through her children’s book, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, but she also wrote several bestsellers for adults,...
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5.5KSix Iconic Summer Paintings of New England
New England has no shortage of summer paintings. For centuries, artists have fled cities in summer for the cool air by the...
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7.8KA 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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7.0KSix 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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