All posts tagged "Charles Dickens"
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7.5KBusiness and LaborThe Wellfleet Oyster: A Brief History of the Precious Mollusk
Diamond Jim Brady once spat out an oyster served him at New York’s Delmonico’s restaurant. “That’s not a Wellfleet oyster!” exclaimed the...
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6.0KArts and LeisureThe Story of the Famous Berwick Sponge Cake – and Why it Disappeared
Once, when people traveled by rail, there was a delicacy that you simply had to have if you could get it: the...
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6.7K1Arts and LeisureFred Allen Jokes His Way Through Dirty Old Boston
Before Groucho Marx, before Johnny Carson and before Saturday Night Live, there was Fred Allen. A wildly popular radio comedian, he created...
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7.1KMassachusettsA Handmade Christmas in New England, c. 1900
Around 1900 on a small farm in Brookfield, Mass., Alan Wallace and his two brothers celebrated the holidays with handmade Christmas presents,...
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7.4K5Arts and LeisureKate Douglas Wiggin, 11, Charms Charles Dickens, 56
As a young girl growing up in the rural village of Hollis, Maine, Kate Douglas Wiggin desperately wanted to see Charles Dickens...
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7.5K7Arts and LeisureHow the Lowell Mill Girls Led to Masterpiece Theatre
In January 1971, WGBH-TV presented the first Masterpiece Theatre, made possible by a grant in 1836 from John Lowell, Jr. Really. John Lowell,...
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