All posts tagged "beer"
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26.6K9Arts and LeisureTarzan Brown, The Narragansett Indian Who Twice Won the Boston Marathon
Minutes before the 1939 Boston Marathon, a Narragansett Indian named Tarzan Brown was seen eating hot dogs and drinking milkshakes. He wore...
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4.4K3New HampshireCount Rumford, The Loyalist Ben Franklin
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
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17.9K22MassachusettsThe Puritans Ban Gambling and a Whole Lot of Other Things
The Puritans had barely arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when they banned gambling. And then they banned a lot of other...
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12.7K22Arts and LeisureIsabella Stewart Gardner Holds a Champagne and Donuts Party on New Year’s Day
At a grand New Year’s Day party in 1903, the legendary Isabella Stewart Gardner served her two favorite foods: donuts and champagne....
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6.9K15Arts and LeisureHigh Thinking and Low Living in Old Lyme
Florence Griswold suffered reversals of fortune that, in the end, transformed her beautiful old Georgian home into the Old Lyme Art Colony,...
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