All posts tagged "quincy"
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18.4K12Arts and LeisureHow To Talk With a Boston Accent (Not for the Faint of Haht)
The Boston accent has brought many an actor to grief, especially these days as films about the city just keep coming. George...
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5.3K1MassachusettsHow John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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5.3K2Arts and LeisureGrizzly Adams, Boston Shoemaker, Driven to the Mountains by Lawyers
Grizzly Adams might have gone down as a minor legend in the wilds of California had a fatal injury not taken him...
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8.7K1ConnecticutBlack Husband, White Scientist: The Secret Double Life of Clarence King
In 1888, Clarence King started to lead two secret lives, one on each side of the Brooklyn Bridge. In Manhattan, he was...
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7.0K4Politics and MilitaryThe Civilian Conservation Corps, a Young Man’s Adventure
During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...
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5.3KArts and LeisureSix Places That Appear on the Back of a Quarter
From 1999 through 2008, the 50 State Quarter program released commemorative quarters with unique designs for each state. Half of all Americans...
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8.0K3MassachusettsLewis Tappan, the Man Who Hired Abe Lincoln to Spy on Sinners
Lewis Tappan hated slavery as much as he hated people who didn’t pay their debts. In 1841, he found he could do...
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7.9K1New HampshireEunice Cole, The Witch of Hampton Who Could Not Be Stopped
Virtually the entire town of Hampton, N.H., believed Eunice Cole was a witch, and from 1656 to 1680 she was hauled into...
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7.1KMassachusettsThe 1755 Earthquake Shakes Up John Adams and All of New England
The great 1755 earthquake was part of a series of earthquakes (probably related to each other) that wracked both sides of the...
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11.5K4New England PlacesSix Presidential Houses in New England
Before presidential libraries, there were presidential houses, and every New England state has at least one. Massachusetts, of course, was the birthplace...
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