All posts tagged "birds"
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28.7K20Arts and LeisureThe Two Loves of Louisa May Alcott
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
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12.1K9ConnecticutMabel Osgood Wright: The Bird Woman of Fairfield, Connecticut
Mabel Osgood Wright loved nature and wanted to study science at Cornell University, but her father thought her ambition unseemly. It was...
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18.6K18MassachusettsThe Legend of the Baldwin Apple
So revered is the Baldwin apple that Massachusetts has not one but two monuments to the bright red winter fruit. For many...
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20.1K12Business and LaborBabson’s Boulders: A Millionaire’s Odd Dogtown Legacy
Eccentric millionaire Roger Babson had an unusual hobby that mortified his family: During the Great Depression, he hired unemployed stonecutters to carve...
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6.8K2MassachusettsThe Birds’ Best Friend: How Ernest Baynes Saved the Animals
Ernest Baynes was the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Dr. Doolittle....
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