All posts tagged "seasons"
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9.2K3New England PlacesThe New England Summer Theater — Six of the Oldest
Summer theater has been a feature of New England resort towns since a Maine entrepreneur started staging plays in a former skating...
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19.2K6MassachusettsTed Williams, The First Latin American Superstar
Few people knew Red Sox great Ted Williams had Mexican ancestry. That’s because he didn’t tell them. Teddy Samuel Williams was born...
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6.0KConnecticutWhat They Say in New England About Summer: Epigrams and Folk Wisdom
The summer season inspires far fewer sayings in New England than spring, fall or winter, probably because it’s so short and so...
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7.4K1Arts and LeisureLouis Sockalexis, The Indian Athlete With the Tragic Flaw
Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a...
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8.8K9Arts and LeisureNew England Patriots History, or Why There Are Still Giants Fans in New England
New England Patriots history begins with an unlikely cast of characters, a decade of homelessness and an early success followed by years...
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5.4K4Arts and LeisureRemembering Martin Bergen, From Beaneaters Star to Murder-Suicide
In the summer of 1934, three very different lives converged in North Brookfield, Mass.: song-and-dance man George M. Cohan; Philadelphia Athletics...
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43.7K15Arts and LeisureI Heard the Bells on Christmas Day – Hope Surfaces from Despair
On Christmas day in 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to write the poem we now know as the Christmas carol, I...
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194.8K68Connecticut1816: The Year Without a Summer
The year 1816 was known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in New England because six inches of snow fell in June...
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15.4K9ConnecticutJackie Robinson Buys A Home in Connecticut
Integrating Major League baseball was just one of the challenges facing Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ great second baseman. Buying a house...
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