All posts tagged "entertainment"
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18.2K10Arts and LeisureThe Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company of New Haven Entertains the Masses (But Doesn’t Cure Them)
Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional moonshine created by Al Capp, but there were real Kickapoo ‘medicines’ that sold like wildfire in...
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13.7K5ConnecticutAt 24, George Washington in New London Causes a Stir
As a 57-year-old president, he made a sensation on his journey through New England, but even at 24 George Washington in New...
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9.9K11Business and LaborS. Z. Poli, New Haven’s Italian P.T. Barnum
Twenty-one-year-old S. Z. Poli came to America in 1881 with little more than the ability to carve lifelike figures from wax. He...
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14.9K1Arts and LeisureThe Boston Redskins Play Their Last Game
George Preston Marshall brought professional football to Boston in 1931 with a team known as the Boston Redskins — and which won...
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5.5K1Arts and LeisureThe Vermont State Fair, 1941: ‘Greatest Agricultural Achievement’ (Plus a Girlie Show)
The Vermont State Fair was close to celebrating its centennial when Jack Delano took this photo in September 1941. It started in...
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9.6K9Arts and LeisureRudy Vallee, A ‘Maine Yankee with a Streak of French Hedonism’
“You must remember this. A kiss is still a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh…” Most people know those lyrics from...
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