All posts tagged "Somerville"
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9.1KArts 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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3.3K1Arts and LeisureHow the Mark Twain Library Started With Books He Defaced
The Mark Twain Library in Redding, Conn., started with 200 books donated by local resident Mark Twain – books he’d scribbled over...
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8.6K4MassachusettsWhen the Pickwick Club Collapse Killed 44 in Boston; the Charleston Took the Blame
At 3 a.m. on July 4, 1925, 50 couples crowded onto the dance floor of the Pickwick Club in Boston’s Chinatown, kicking...
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11.4KCrime and ScandalFrederick Small Commits the Imperfect Murder of 1916
Frederick Small, an awful little man, thought of himself as an astute businessman. He wasn’t. An abusive husband, he thought he committed...
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3426MassachusettsAlexander Scammell, the Lovesick Revolutionary War Hero
On a June night in 1777, Gen. Alexander Scammell poured out his heart in a letter to Abigail Bishop of Mistic, Mass....
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9.4K13MassachusettsThe Heroic Last-Minute Rescue of the Old South Meeting House
Of all the dramatic events that took place at Boston’s Old South Meeting House, the battle to save it from destruction in...
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8.2K7Arts and LeisureLeonard Nimoy Gets a Hand Up From JFK and EPP
In 1956, a 24-year-old taxicab driver named Leonard Nimoy got a call to pick up a Mr. Kennedy at the Bel-Air Hotel in...
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13.3K17New HampshireWhen Paul Revere Rode to New Hampshire
On Dec. 13, 1774, Paul Revere rode to Portsmouth, N.H., to warn the redcoats were coming. It was a much less famous...
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31.7K10Arts and LeisureMary Had a Little Lamb – Yes, There Was a Mary and She Did Have a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb, the childhood nursery rhyme familiar to all, tells the story of a real Mary, a real lamb,...
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12.2K18Business and LaborMary Patten, 19 and Pregnant, Takes Command of a Clipper Ship in 1856
Mary Patten never set out to be a sea captain, but that’s what she became in 1856. She had married Joshua Patten,...
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