All posts tagged "Athol Mass."
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6.6K2Business and LaborGinery Twichell Raced Steam Engines on Horseback … and Won
Ginery Twichell rode into legend on horseback in 1846 when he brought the news of the British elections from Boston to New...
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10.8K1Arts and LeisureHow Candy Cummings Invented the Curveball
A clamshell on a Brooklyn beach inspired Candy Cummings to invent a pitch that still vexes batters more than 150 years later:...
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36.7K7MassachusettsEndicott Peabody, The Man With the Thickest Skin in New England
Endicott Peabody failed far more times than he succeeded, but he always lost like a gentleman. Known as ‘Chub,’ he ran for...
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