All posts tagged "Cambridge Mass."
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4.6K1Arts and LeisureFlashback Photo: Harry Grant Wins the Vanderbilt Cup
Harry Grant was the first racecar driver to win the Vanderbilt Cup twice – and the only one who died trying for...
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5.6K2MassachusettsWashington Arrives in Cambridge To Take Command
George Washington on first sight impressed Dr. James Thacher as ‘noble and majestic.’ Thacher, then 21, was then trying to enlist as a...
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2.8K3Arts and LeisureLeroy Anderson: An Immigrants’ Son Takes A Sleigh Ride to the Hollywood Walk of Fame
In the early 1930s, a Harvard graduate student named Leroy Anderson almost made the biggest mistake of his life. He had taken...
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12.3K9Arts and LeisureAnne Bradstreet, 1st Woman Poet in America
Anne Bradstreet wasn’t just the first woman to be published in England’s North American colonies. She was the first Englishwoman to publish...
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4.3K1Business and LaborJohn McTammany, Aggrieved Pioneer of the Player Piano
John McTammany loved music and he loved machines, and those two loves led to the creation of a perforated paper player for...
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7.3K5Arts and LeisureFlashback Photo: ‘Casey at the Bat,’ The One Poem Wonder
Ernest Thayer wrote one good poem in his lifetime: Casey at the Bat. And then a Broadway actor made it famous by...
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