All posts tagged "Mark Twain"
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6.4K1Arts and LeisureWill the Real Annie Adams Fields Please Stand Up?
Publisher and poet James Fields saw his career take off after he married Annie Adams Fields. It was not a coincidence. Fields’...
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8.1K13Arts and LeisureJames Fields and the Old Corner Bookstore
In the middle of the 18th century, visitors to the Old Corner Bookstore would find James Thomas Fields laughing and talking with...
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13.6K19Arts and LeisureWhen Mark Twain Bombed Giving New England’s First Roast
Mark Twain bombed in a very big way when he poked fun at America’s most august literary lights during a 70th birthday...
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9.3K3Business and LaborLewis Downing Conquers the West With the Concord Coach
The Concord Coach might have been called the Lexington Wagon had Lewis Downing decided against visiting his fiancee in New Hampshire. A...
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29.4K4IrregularsChester Arthur, Inaugurated in his Lexington Ave. Home
The American public had low expectations of Chester Arthur when he became the 21st president of the United States, but he surprised...
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