All posts tagged "libraries"
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12.8K8MassachusettsMount Auburn Cemetery, a 19th Century Tourist Attraction
In 1846, 16-year-old Emily Dickinson made a rare foray outside of her Amherst, Mass., home to visit the biggest tourist attraction on...
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17.4K2MassachusettsBoston’s Rat Day of 1917
On Boston’s Rat Day of 1917, the upper-class women of Boston gave $1.34 for every rat carcass turned in. The numbers of...
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18.6K1Arts and LeisureThe Saturday Evening Girls Make Pottery History
When Sara Galner first joined the Saturday Evening Girls Club, she had no idea she’d end up making pottery that sold for...
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11.1K3Arts and LeisureThe Franklin Library, Not Quite What the Town Wanted
In 1790, the townspeople of Franklin, Mass., decided they wanted a bell. They got the Franklin Library instead. The library opened its...
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6.3K5Arts and LeisureThe Carnegie Libraries of New England
Three Carnegie libraries had their cornerstones laid in one day, but those were only a fraction of the tycoon-funded libraries in New...
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7.9K5Arts and LeisureNaked Drunken Woman Gets Kicked Out of the Boston Public Library
It was the cause celebre of 1896: a statue of a naked drunken woman was gifted to the new Boston Public Library...
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