All posts tagged "Redding Conn."
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6.0KArts and LeisureCharles Ives’ New England Holidays, A Danbury Childhood Set to Music
Charles Ives never forgot the sights and sounds of the village cornet band marching to the cemetery in Danbury, Conn., on Decoration...
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16.3KArts and LeisureThe Mark Twain Fantasy Menu
Mark Twain liked a good meal, a good cigar and a good cocktail. During a trip to Europe in the 1880s, he...
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11.8KBusiness and LaborAlfred Winslow Jones, The Unlikely Inventor of the Hedge Fund
Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a Communist before he invented the modern hedge fund...
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11.7K3ConnecticutThe Mark Twain Burglary Goes Comically Awry
The Mark Twain burglary of 1908 is remembered for the witty notice the author tacked onto his dining room door for the...
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4.9K5ConnecticutMark Twain Refuses To Succumb to the Silken Dainties of Isabel Lyon
Mark Twain made a painful confession that didn’t come to light until 100 years after his death, in 2010. He’d been flattered,...
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