All posts tagged "Groton School"

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  New England Places

  Six Stunning Gothic Revival Buildings By Henry Vaughan

  Henry Vaughan didn’t leave much in the way of paper records, but he did change the face of Puritan New England with...

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  Business and Labor

  Polly Peabody, The Bohemian Blueblood Who Invented the Bra

  Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...

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  Arts and Leisure

  Isabella Stewart Gardner, Early Gay Icon?

  Isabella Stewart Gardner is known to most for Fenway Court, her palatial Boston museum from which $500 million in art was stolen...

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  Edie Sedgwick, Poor Little Rich Girl

  In 1965, Edie Sedgwick appeared in one of Andy Warhol’s underground films in 1965 and said, “I’ve never been anywhere where I...