All posts tagged "entertainment"
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3.0K5New HampshireIrving Greenwood, Shaker Brother, Buys a Cadillac
On Aug. 6, 1920, Shaker Brother Irving Greenwood brought a new Cadillac home to Canterbury Shaker Village. It was a beauty, he...
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4.5K4New England PlacesThe Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Six Historic Opera Houses
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...
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8.9K3New England PlacesThe New England Summer Theater — Six of the Oldest
Summer theater has been a feature of New England resort towns since a Maine entrepreneur started staging plays in a former skating...
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8.6K2Arts and LeisureFrank Sinatra Comes To New England
Like George Washington, Frank Sinatra made many forays into New England over his long career. Unlike George Washington, Sinatra came to sing,...
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44.1K12Arts and LeisureThe Six Oldest Restaurants in New England
The six oldest restaurants in New England include taverns that served hungry travelers and a diner that fed mill workers after their...
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7.2KConnecticutMartha Stiles, the Hero Drummer Boy of Lookout Mountain
There may have been a Union Army drummer boy of Lookout Mountain, but it wasn’t Martha Stiles. Lookout Mountain certainly was the...
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21.8K16ConnecticutSix Prohibition Speakeasies You Can Still Visit
When the 18th Amendment to the Constitution took effect on January 17, 1920, New England’s taverns suddenly became speakeasies. Law enforcement couldn’t...
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8.7K2Arts and LeisureThe Circus Comes to Newburyport – and Scandalizes the More Upright Citizens
When the circus came to Newburyport, Mass. in 1810, it wasn’t viewed as a completely respectable form of entertainment, and those who...
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7.6K2Arts and LeisureThe L Street Brownies New Year’s Plunge Starts With Washing the Unwashed
The L Street Brownies annual New Year’s Day plunge had its beginnings with pious reformers who wanted to wash the unwashed —...
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5.4K3Arts and LeisureBenjamin Franklin Keith Bans the Word ‘Pants,’ Builds a Theatrical Empire
Benjamin Franklin KeithBack in the heyday of vaudeville, Benjamin Franklin Keith promised the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston that he would only...
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