All posts tagged "cemetery"
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2.7KArts and LeisureEdith Wharton in Paris During World War I
Life for Edith Wharton in Paris was lived in stimulating freedom and aristocratic luxury until World War I broke out. Shocked by...
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3.4KMassachusettsAgrippa Hull, Race Under British Rule
After decades of neglect the common burial grounds of slaves are now being documented, honored and preserved from New York to Mississippi...
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4.4KArts and LeisureDiscover the Hidden History All Around You
You wouldn’t want to see one of New England’s historic buildings, landscapes or icons without knowing about its hidden past, would you?...
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4.2KConnecticutArsenic and Old Lace: Not Funny to the Man Who Brought a Serial Killer to Justice
On Jan. 10, 1941, Hartford State’s Attorney Hugh Alcorn attended the opening night of the Broadway play, Arsenic and Old Lace. The...
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3.7KArts and LeisureCharles Ives’ New England Holidays, A Danbury Childhood Set to Music
Charles Ives never forgot the sights and sounds of the village cornet band marching to the cemetery in Danbury, Conn., on Decoration...
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4.4K2Arts and LeisureClover Adams Takes Pictures of Grief (Her Own)
The famous statue “Grief” memorializes Clover Adams, a talented photographer whose husband wouldn’t let her work be published. She committed suicide in...
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