All posts tagged "railroad"
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5.7KArts and LeisureThe Story of the Famous Berwick Sponge Cake – and Why it Disappeared
Once, when people traveled by rail, there was a delicacy that you simply had to have if you could get it: the...
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9.5KMassachusettsThe Mercer Girls: When New England Girls Went West to Find Husbands
On Jan. 26, 1864, a young man from the Pacific Northwest gave a talk to unmarried girls in Lowell, Mass., about a...
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19.3KArts and LeisureRichard Potter, Celebrity Black Magician of the 19th Century
Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
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6.9KbostonMary 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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6.7KArts and LeisureWonderland, Revere’s Brief, Brilliant Million-Dollar Amusement Park
In 1903 and 1904 the face of American public amusement changed with the successful opening of two new parks in Coney Island:...
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5.9KMassachusettsGeorge Scigliano, Lost Leader of Boston’s Italian Community
George Scigliano won the reverence of Boston’s North End for vanquishing the money lenders, criminals and labor bosses who preyed on poor...
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