All posts tagged "bohemians"
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5.8K1Arts and LeisureOscar Wilde Stirs Up Boston
In an early display of homophobia, 60 Harvard students dressed up like the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde when he delivered a lecture...
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6.8K5Arts and LeisureNaked Drunken Woman Gets Kicked Out of the Boston Public Library
It was the cause celebre of 1896: a statue of a naked drunken woman was gifted to the new Boston Public Library...
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11.1K8Arts and LeisureThe Provincetown Players Revolutionize American Theater
In the summer of 1916, Eugene O’Neill arrived in Provincetown, Mass., depressed over his failure to find a stage for his plays....
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6.8K2MassachusettsHow Irish-Catholic Louise Guiney Outwitted Her Protestant Postal Customers
When Irish-Catholic Louise Guiney got the job of postmistress in Auburndale, Mass., the town’s Protestants boycotted her stamps. That created a problem....
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14.4K8Arts and LeisureHow To Make a Maine May Basket
An old New England tradition that perhaps deserves reviving is the giving of a May basket on May Day. It was popular...
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33.2K2Arts and LeisureKahlil Gibran Gets His Picture Taken in Boston
A Lebanese boy named Kahlil Gibran got a lift out of Boston’s slums from a wealthy Bohemian who liked to take pictures....
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