All posts tagged "bohemians"
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4.4K5Arts 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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6.9K8Arts 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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4.1K2MassachusettsHow 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. Fortunately, she had many,...
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9.7K8Arts 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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22.7K2Arts 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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7.3K4Arts and LeisureEthel Reed, The Beautiful Poster Lady Who Disappeared
The beautiful Ethel Reed blazed like a meteor across Boston’s artistic firmament in the 1890s, but after a broken engagement she all...
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7.4K14Crime and ScandalThe Short, Wild Life of Harry Crosby, Publisher of Jazz Age Geniuses
After Harry Crosby was nearly killed in World War I, he vowed to live fast and die young. His success scandalized Boston...
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3.2K2Arts and LeisureWhistler’s Mother Poses for Her Bad Boy
When bad boy artist James McNeill Whistler’s mother first came to live with him in London in 1864, he had to hide...
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4.5K7Arts and LeisureMatilda Browne, Just One of the Boy Artists
Peonies, by Matilda Browne When Matilda Browne was allowed to paint on a door in Miss Florence Griswold’s house in Old Lyme,...
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4.6K6Arts and LeisureEdna St. Vincent Millay Gives Thanks for a Basket of Flowers, May 4, 1918
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a 22-year-old Vassar student on May 4, 1918 when she wrote a letter thanking her friend Corinne...
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