All posts tagged "Brahmin"
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5.1K2bostonJustin Winsor, the Genealogy Nut Who Founded the Library Profession
Libraries might be very different places today were it not for Justin Winsor, who became the head librarian at the Boston Public...
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2.6K1Crime and ScandalDerby, Vt., Harbors a Wealthy Kidnapper and Her Son, Allen Thorndike Rice
In 1860, wealthy kidnapper Elizabeth Thorndike Rice hid in Derby, Vt., with her son as her abusive ex-husband tried to find them....
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8.4K4Arts 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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13.2K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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2.7K2MassachusettsLeverett Saltonstall Worries About Nora Seeing Men in Pyjamas
Nora Saltonstall for nearly a year had been a Red Cross volunteer on the Western Front when she got a chance to...
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5.0K2Crime and ScandalJust One Kind of Murder in the 1850 Parkman-Webster Case
There was only one kind of murder in Massachusetts when the sensational Parkman-Webster case caught the world’s attention in 1850: The kind...
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