All posts tagged "1960s"
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12.7K3bostonSeven Things You Didn’t Know (But Want To) About the Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party is one of the most misunderstood signature events of the American Revolution. For starters, it wasn’t about high...
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17.5K2Arts and LeisureThe Rise and Fall of Kumbaya — and of the Man Who ‘Discovered’ the Song
Left-wing activists would never have adopted Kumbaya as an anthem if a folklore buff hadn’t lugged wax cylinders to the Sea Islands....
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101.3K28Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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15.5K3Arts and LeisureDorothy West Gets Rediscovered by Jacqueline Onassis
Dorothy West at 88 lived quietly in the Martha’s Vineyard village of Oak Bluffs when Jacqueline Onassis encouraged her to finish her...
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16.0K10MassachusettsNo, JFK Did Not Say ‘I Am a Jelly Doughnut’
Critics of President John F. Kennedy, popularly known as JFK, claimed his eloquent 1963 speech before 400,000 people in West Berlin included...
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26.5K4Arts and LeisureEdward Hopper in New England
Edward Hopper is known for his paintings of urban isolation, and yet he did some of his best loved work in rural...
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