All posts tagged "seasons"
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14.0K3New 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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67.0K16Arts 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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31.6K6Arts and LeisureTed 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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11.1KConnecticutWhat 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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13.4K2Arts 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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7.6K7MassachusettsHow Henry David Thoreau Studied Climate Change (Without Realizing It)
Henry David Thoreau studied climate change unintentionally when he recorded in his journal the exact dates that plants, shrubs and trees blossomed...
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