All posts tagged "Brookline"
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29.7K6ConnecticutHow the Wild Turkey Vanished, Then Returned, to New England
For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....
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17.8K1MassachusettsJohn Adams Gets Into Harvard, Barely
As a terrified applicant to Harvard, 15-year-old John Adams showed few signs of becoming a Founding Father, diplomat, statesman and president of...
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19.3K2Arts and LeisureNew England’s Six Oldest Golf Clubs
In 1728, Royal Governor William Dummer arrived in Massachusetts with nine ‘goffe clubs,’ but it would be another 150 years before golf...
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10.5K3ConnecticutFive Extraordinary Midnight Rides in New England
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere took the most famous of all midnight rides in American history. He was famous because Henry...
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22.5K4New England PlacesSix Presidential Houses in New England
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
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7.7KMassachusettsEllen Day Hale, Brahmin Bohemian, Paints Like a Man
Ellen Day Hale received little recognition for her art during her lifetime, but she did win independence as a new kind of...
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