All posts tagged "Cambridge Mass."
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5.8KArts and LeisureJacques Pepin, French From Connecticut
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...
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15.6K3MassachusettsMargaret Fuller Dies in a Shipwreck While People Watch
Margaret Fuller, who spent her life protesting injustice, died at the age of 40 in a shipwreck off New York Harbor while...
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31.7K13Arts and LeisureHow To Talk With a New Hampshire Accent
The New Hampshire accent started with the English colonists who first arrived in North America. They brought with them speech patterns from...
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30.6K4bostonSix Revolutionary Forts
Scattered throughout New England are dozens of revolutionary forts. Some, like Fort Halifax in Maine, date to the French and Indian wars....
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7.4K7MassachusettsMount Auburn Cemetery, a 19th Century Tourist Attraction
In 1846, 16-year-old Emily Dickinson made a rare foray outside of her Amherst, Mass., home to visit the biggest tourist attraction on...
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5.7K11MassachusettsFive year old Elizabeth Bright is Kidnapped in 1837
In September of 1837, Henry Bright returned from Alabama to Massachusetts with his family. He had made a business career there, but...
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18.0K4Crime and ScandalThe Tragedy of Audrey Munson, America’s First Supermodel
You can still see the image of Audrey Munson in museums from Hartford to San Francisco. A statue of her, America’s first...
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9.2KbostonAvis Linnell, Murdered by Her Minister, Inspires ‘An American Tragedy’
The 1911 murder of Avis Linnell, a 19-year-old music student, in the Boston YWCA was one of the most sensational crimes in...
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18.9K23Arts and LeisureMabel Loomis Todd, the Adulteress Who Made Emily Dickinson Famous
Mabel Loomis Todd often visited Emily Dickinson’s home, but never laid eyes on the poet except in her coffin. After her first...
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5.0KArts and LeisureNew England Places To Take Mom on Mother’s Day
Everyone knows about historic New England places like the Freedom Trail or Robert Frost’s Farm. But the New England Historical Society can...
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