All posts tagged "poetry"
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8.0KbostonMary 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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8.5KArts and LeisureSeven Fun Facts About E.E. Cummings
Many school kids have a special affinity for e.e. cummings, who wrote about the circus and got away with funky punctuation, made-up...
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7.6KConnecticutDavid Wooster, Revolutionary War Hero, Befriends a Freed Slave
David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
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6.7KBusiness and LaborJohn William Sterling, a Well-Respected Man With a Secret
John William Sterling was a corporate lawyer during the Gilded Age, a conservative, upper-class businessman, the kind of man the Kinks describe...
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14.9KMaineThe Ladies of Gray, Maine, Bury an Unknown Confederate Soldier
The Ladies of Gray had good reason to despise the Confederacy and its people. The small Maine town sent 200 of its...
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9.6K2Arts 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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