All posts tagged "Hyannis Port"
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3.4KMassachusettsSeven Fun Facts About Joseph Kennedy, Father of a Dynasty
One summer day in the early 1960s, Joseph Kennedy was sitting in his wheelchair in front of his Hyannis Port home,as a...
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19.9K4New England PlacesSix Presidential Houses in New England
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
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35.4K2Connecticut6 Places That Became a Summer White House
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
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13.0K25MassachusettsJFK Born In Brookline, May 29, 1917
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy came into the world, his family was not yet wealthy and glamorous, and it hadn’t yet been plagued...
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5.4K5Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: Theodore White Creates the Camelot Myth About John F. Kennedy
One week after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Theodore White wrote a Life magazine article comparing his administration to Camelot....
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6.6K2Business and LaborPeleg Nye, The Jonah of Cape Cod
Peleg Nye in 1864 had the bad luck to encounter a whale that decided to have him as a snack. As the...
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