All posts tagged "Great Barrington Mass."
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8.5KScience and Nature6 Fun Facts About Maple Syrup (and Sugar, too)
Collecting sap for maple syrup may be the best thing about early spring in New England. Which of course damns it with...
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19.4K8ConnecticutThe Highest Point in Each New England State
You might think the most challenging mountain climbing adventure in New England is to the highest point in the region: Mount Washington...
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4.9K1bostonThe New England Roots of the Chinese Revolution
In 1910, 43-year-old Sun Yat-sen arrived in Boston and set up a secret society to support the Chinese revolution. He started the...
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23.1K19Arts and LeisureArlo Guthrie Gets Arrested for Littering
A Thanksgiving dinner clean-up in 1965 launched Arlo Guthrie on a folksinging career, created an anti-war anthem and transformed an old church...
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8.9K7MassachusettsElizabeth Freeman, Illiterate Slave, Wins Freedom and Honor
Elizabeth Freeman couldn’t read the Massachusetts Constitution, but she understood its declaration that ‘all men are free and equal’ applied to her. Though she...
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1.7K2Arts and LeisureFlashback Photo: William Cullen Bryant, Poet, Editor, Hog Reeve
William Cullen Bryant struggled with his career before becoming a revered poet and influential editor of the New York Evening Post. As a...
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