All posts tagged "New York Times"
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4.5KArts and LeisureJohn Margolies Photographs Roadside America
John Margolies in 1970 caused a stir, and not a good one, in highbrow architectural citcles. He did it by putting on...
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8.8KBusiness and LaborWhen New Englanders Feared a French-Canadian Immigrant Conquest
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
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16.2KArts and LeisureJacques Pepin, French From Connecticut
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...
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13.2K3ConnecticutAlbert Einstein Summers in Rhode Island, Connecticut
Even the greatest minds need a rest now and then, and in the 1930s Albert Einstein rested his in New England, spending...
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51.1K28Business and LaborThe Invention of the Fried Clam
On July 3, 1916, Lawrence ‘Chubby’ Woodman invented the fried clam – or at least as we know the revered mollusk today. It...
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7.3K2MassachusettsThe Birds’ Best Friend: How Ernest Baynes Saved the Animals
Ernest Baynes was the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Dr. Doolittle....
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