All posts tagged "theater"
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8.0K2Arts and LeisureThe Real People Behind Little Women
A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still...
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10.5KArts and LeisureBlack Cake, A Christmas Treat Emily Dickinson Loved To Bake
If something called a black cake sounds like a perfect Christmas sweet from a famously reclusive poet prone to black moods –...
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16.9K3Arts and LeisureHow Ptown Got So Gay, Gay, Gay
Ptown, as so many know it, was once a shabby old seaport that had fallen on hard times. Yankees lived on one...
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8.2KArts and LeisureWhen Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Honeymooned (and Partied) in Westport, Conn.
In 1920, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald honeymooned in Westport, Conn., so he could write, she could swim and they could both party...
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7.1K1Business and LaborThe First Shopping Mall in Each New England State
In 1947, New England’s first shopping mall broke ground in Stamford, Conn. No one knew for sure whether it would even survive....
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5.7KMaineThe Siege of Scarborough and Maine’s Long War
In 1676, the colonial settlers in Scarborough, Maine, had abandoned the town after fierce fighting with a small army of Indians. That...
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5.7K1Massachusetts9 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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4.0K1Arts and LeisureJohn Wilkes Booth Buys Property in Boston’s Back Bay
John Wilkes Booth sympathized with the South during the Civil War, but he planned to move to Boston, a Northern city full...
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9.4K3Arts and LeisureMaxine Elliott: The Maine Starlet and Winston Churchill
In all the movies, books and histories that explored the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, only a short excerpt from...
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11.8K1Arts and LeisureThe Mysterious Death of Cape Cod’s David Bacon
In September of 1943, witnesses saw David Bacon drive his sports car off a California highway and into a bean field. As...
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