All posts tagged "Wellesley"
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17.7KConnecticutThe Greatest New England High School Football Rivalries
New England high school football rivalries go back to the days when teams traveled by stagecoach to visit their opponents. When there...
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14.3K2Arts and LeisureSix Iconic Paintings From the New England States
Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...
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6.6K1Flashback PhotosFanny Bullock Workman Shows Rich Brits What an American Woman Can Do
In 1898, a 39-year-old American woman named Fanny Bullock Workman did something that shocked the tiny clique of wealthy British men who...
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13.2K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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6.0K8MassachusettsRose Kennedy, An Old-Fashioned Girl (Sort Of)
Rose Kennedy didn’t drink and she didn’t smoke. She told people who offered her a drink or a cigarette, “Well, I am just...
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6.7K7Arts and LeisureA Mountain View Inspires ‘America the Beautiful’
When a 33-year-old Wellesley college professor reached the top of Pikes Peak on July 22, 1893, she was so moved she scribbled...
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