All posts tagged "Mattapan"
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11.3KMassachusettsA. Philip Randolph, the Dean of the Civil Rights Movement
Of the thousands of people who go in and out of Boston’s Back Bay commuter rail station every day, how many pass...
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13.1K7Arts and LeisureLeonard Nimoy Gets a Hand Up From JFK and EPP
In 1956, a 24-year-old taxicab driver named Leonard Nimoy got a call to pick up a Mr. Kennedy at the Bel-Air Hotel in...
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24.3K51MassachusettsThe Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965
At dusk on Nov. 9, 1965, 11-year-old Jay Hounsell was walking down the road in Conway, N.H. He was on his way...
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2.6KToday's History Highlights ArchiveWriters, Firefighters and an Historic Farmhouse in Today’s History Highlights – 8.16.2013
Today’s Flashback Photo is a terrific picture of a horse drawn steam-powered fire pumper racing along the streets of Dorchester sometime in...
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