All posts tagged "Stockbridge Mass."
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8.6KCrime and ScandalHenriette Desportes Leaves the Scandals of Paris for a Stockbridge Minister
By the time she died in 1875, people knew Henriette Desportes as a minister’s wife in Stockbridge, Mass. But behind that staid...
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5.9K2Arts and LeisureNew England Places To Visit: Museums, Cemeteries, Battlefields and a Rummage Sale
Even during the dreariest spring, New England holds a wealth of places to visit for history lovers. There are battlefields for the...
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12.3K3Arts and LeisureStockbridge Steps Into a Norman Rockwell Christmas Painting
Every year for two hours at Christmastime, the town of Stockbridge, Mass., turns itself into a Norman Rockwell Christmas painting. The Town...
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21.9K19Arts and LeisureArlo Guthrie Gets Arrested for Littering
A Thanksgiving dinner clean-up in 1965 launched Arlo Guthrie on a folksinging career, created an anti-war anthem and transformed an old church...
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3.8K9Flashback PhotosFlashback Photo: Ben Bradlee, Boston Brahmin
Ben Bradlee, the storied newspaper editor who defied the Washington Establishment by publishing Watergate scoops and the Pentagon Papers, is very much...
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8.4K7MassachusettsElizabeth Freeman, Illiterate Slave, Wins Freedom and Honor
Elizabeth Freeman couldn’t read the Massachusetts Constitution, but she understood its declaration that ‘all men are free and equal’ applied to her. Though she...
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5.6K5Arts and LeisureFlashback Photo: Dedication of the Lincoln Memorial, May 30, 1922
Robert Todd Lincoln was 78 years old when he attended the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial on May 30, 1922. He was joined...
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10.5K14Arts and LeisureFlashback Photo: Norman Rockwell Becomes Norman Rockwell in Vermont
Norman Rockwell in Vermont became known for his paintings of small-town life. But it wasn’t until the fall of 1938, when he...
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