All posts tagged "Boston Public Library"
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16.3KArts and LeisureEight Fun Facts About the Insanely Talented John Singer Sargent
How did the paintings of John Singer Sargent ever fall out of favor? He created stunning watercolor landscapes and oil portraits that...
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9.6KMassachusettsMyles Standish and the Lost Colony of Massachusetts
In March 1623, leaders of the struggling Plymouth Plantation dispatched their paid military leader Myles Standish to a coastal settlement 25 miles...
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7.4KbostonMary Antin, Poster Child for Letting Immigrants Into America
Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
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11.7K1Business and LaborBefore Dunkin’, New England Had the Waldorf Lunch System
Before New England gave the world Howard Johnson’s, Dunkin Donuts, McDonald’s and Subway, it invented the Waldorf Lunch. The Waldorf Lunch System...
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6.7K1Arts and LeisureFred Allen Jokes His Way Through Dirty Old Boston
Before Groucho Marx, before Johnny Carson and before Saturday Night Live, there was Fred Allen. A wildly popular radio comedian, he created...
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7.3K1Arts 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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