All posts tagged "funeral"
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4.2KMassachusettsThe Wreck of the Famine Ship St. John (According to Thoreau)
On Oct. 7, 1849, the brig St. John struck Grampus Ledge off the coast of Cohasset during a sudden and furious storm....
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5.7KMassachusettsGeorge Scigliano, Lost Leader of Boston’s Italian Community
George Scigliano won the reverence of Boston’s North End for vanquishing the money lenders, criminals and labor bosses who preyed on poor...
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5.4KMassachusetts6 Fun Facts About Ezekiel Cheever, Puritan Schoolmaster
Ezekiel Cheever taught Latin, writing and arithmetic to the children of New England’s first Puritans for 70 years. He taught in New...
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6.6KPolitics and MilitaryThe Story of Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner, Narragansett Bay Aviators
In 2018 the U.S. Navy commissioned the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Hudner in Boston. The ship’s name pays tribute to two...
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7.3K2Arts 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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25.1K2MassachusettsThe Buzzards Bay Leper Colony: Tragic Exile
Around the turn of the 20th century, a terrifying new kind of immigrant arrived in Massachusetts: the sufferer of Hansen’s disease. A...
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