All posts tagged "mental illness"
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4.4KbostonMary Antin, Poster Child for Letting Immigrants Into America
Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
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4.7KArts and LeisureDiscovery in the Attic: The Lost Work of Provincetown Artist Edith Lake Wilkinson
In 1924, someone packed a truck with the life work of Edith Lake Wilkinson – her woodblocks, prints, sketches and paintings. And...
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5.4KConnecticutArsenic and Old Lace: Not Funny to the Man Who Brought a Serial Killer to Justice
On Jan. 10, 1941, Hartford State’s Attorney Hugh Alcorn attended the opening night of the Broadway play, Arsenic and Old Lace. The...
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5.8K2Arts and LeisureClover Adams Takes Pictures of Grief (Her Own)
The famous statue “Grief” memorializes Clover Adams, a talented photographer whose husband wouldn’t let her work be published. She committed suicide in...
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9.0KConnecticutElizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett Starts the 1st Scandal in Greenwich
Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett started the first scandal in Greenwich, Conn., over – what else? – infidelity and real estate. The...
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6.8KConnecticutA Pants-Free Preacher Starts a Bonfire of the Vanities in New London
In 1743, religious enthusiasts ignited a bonfire of the vanities on the docks of New London, Conn. Their deranged leader, James Davenport,...
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