All posts tagged "singing"
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7.8K1Arts and LeisureVarick Frissell: the New England Filmmaker Who Died in the Biggest Hollywood Disaster Ever
In 1930, Varick Frissell traveled north to Canada to make the deadliest movie ever. Twenty-six people would die in the filming, including...
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11.3KConnecticutHartford’s Sex Workers of 1913: An Intimate Portrait
In 1913, a juicy report on Hartford’s 200 sex workers came into such demand that the city quickly ran out of copies....
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7.5KArts and LeisureThe Rolling Thunder Revue Visits Jack Kerouac’s Gravesite
Bob Dylan returned to some of his most important roots in 1975 when he came to Massachusetts, particularly Cambridge and Lowell, with...
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5.6KPolitics and MilitaryCaleb Gibbs Leads George Washington’s Secret Service
At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, it became clear to George Washington that he needed personal protection. He formed the Commander-in-Chief’s...
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20.2K1Business and LaborHow French-Canadian Textile Workers Came to New England
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
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5.8K1Massachusetts9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy
Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...
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9.3KArts and LeisureThe Outrageous Comical Brown Comes to Town
If you live in a New England town with town hall, a school, a church or an opera house, chances are good...
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14.8KArts and LeisureLillian Nordica – An Opera Diva With a Tragic Flair for the Dramatic
In 1914, all the the world, including her hometown of Farmington, Maine, strained its ears for any word that the voice of...
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5.2KMassachusettsMother Ann’s Work, or How a Lot of Embarrassing Ghosts Visited the Shakers
From 1837 to the mid-1840s, Shaker communities received a flood of ghostly visits they called Mother Ann’s Work. Their dead founder, Mother...
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13.7K3Arts and LeisureNine Apple Cider Traditions That Are No Longer With Us
Today apple trees litter the roadsides of New England, often ignored or painted and photographed for their scenic charms. But from the...
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