Business and Labor
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3.6KA 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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2.6KJohn 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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2.9KThe 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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3.3KHow the Irish Immigrants Came to New England
In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
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5.8KSix Stops From the People’s Guide to Greater Boston
One of our favorite books of 2020 is the People’s Guide to Greater Boston, a tour guide that goes beyond the usual...
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