All posts tagged "South Boston"
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20.2K12Arts and LeisureHow To Talk With a Boston Accent (Not for the Faint of Haht)
The Boston accent has brought many an actor to grief, especially these days as films about the city just keep coming. George...
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5.9KBusiness and LaborThe Telegraph Hills of Massachusetts
Along the east coast of Massachusetts stretching from Boston to Martha’s Vineyard lies a series of Telegraph Hills. So named around 1801,...
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4.1K3Massachusetts8 Things You Didn’t Know About New England Olympians
Ever since a Bostonian won the first event in the first modern Olympics, New England has sent more than its share of...
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19.2K1Business and LaborThe Return of ZaRex
Generations of New Englanders grew up on ZaRex, a sweet fruity syrup they could make into a drink, into snow cones or...
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16.4K15bostonHow Boston’s South Shore Became the Irish Riviera
Visit the South Shore of Massachusetts and you won’t have much doubt about why people call it the Irish Riviera. Orange-and-green flags...
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19.2K13Arts and LeisureEdgar Allan Poe Writes A Story Based on a Boston Harbor Legend
Edgar Allan Poe based the macabre short story, The Cask of Amontillado, on a legend he heard while serving in a fort...
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8.2K2Arts and LeisureThe L Street Brownies New Year’s Plunge Starts With Washing the Unwashed
The L Street Brownies annual New Year’s Day plunge had its beginnings with pious reformers who wanted to wash the unwashed —...
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28.2K3MaineThe Needham, A Potato Candy Sacred and Peculiar to Maine
The Maine potato candy known as the needham has always stood in the shadow of the whoopie pie, but generations of Mainers have...
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25.5K15ConnecticutHelen Keller, Not Quite the Nice Lady Who Campaigned for Peace
Helen Keller in the winter of 1913 sent $87 to help immigrant textile workers on strike in Little Falls, N.Y. She was...
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11.6K1Arts and LeisureGeorge Frazier on the Best-Dressed Men of 1960
For 40 years, George Frazier was to Boston what Jimmy Breslin was to New York, what Mike Royko was to Chicago and...
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