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“Tear Down This Wall”

Posted by on Jun 14, 2012 in Featured, History | 1 comment

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the speech President Ronald Reagan made at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, calling for the removal...

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Pebble Beach Golf Course

Posted by on Jun 11, 2012 in Featured, Sports | Comments Off on Pebble Beach Golf Course

Pebble Beach is the most spectacular golf course in the United States. It doesn’t have the genteel beauty and pedigree of Augusta...

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Apocalypse Now

Posted by on Jun 4, 2012 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on Apocalypse Now

It’s a miracle Apocalypse Now ever got made. Lead actor Martin Sheen had a heart attack in the middle of filming. A typhoon came...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

Posted by on May 31, 2012 in Featured, TV Show | 1 comment

Christmas Eve, 1951. A few privileged people gathered around a box in their living room called a “television” and saw the...

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The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show

Posted by on May 24, 2012 in Featured, Music | Comments Off on The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show

America experienced collective depression as the year 1964 dawned. John Kennedy, a charismatic and much-loved president, had been...

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“Purple Haze”

Posted by on May 22, 2012 in Featured, Songs | Comments Off on “Purple Haze”

This is one of those things that make you go, “Hmm.” “Purple Haze” was a groundbreaking single written by Jimi...

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Veggie Tales

Posted by on May 8, 2012 in Featured, Kids Stuff | Comments Off on Veggie Tales

It’s a basic law of children’s entertainment that the best movies and videos appeal not just to kids, but to parents as well....

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Parker House Rolls

Posted by on May 2, 2012 in Featured, Food | Comments Off on Parker House Rolls

If you’d been a visitor to Boston in the second half of the nineteenth century, chances are you might have desired a room at the new...

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Posted by on Apr 30, 2012 in Featured, Sports | Comments Off on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When he was known as Lew Alcindor, a high school phenom leading Power Memorial to multiple state championships, America knew this young man...

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Sidney Poitier

Posted by on Apr 27, 2012 in Actor, Featured | Comments Off on Sidney Poitier

Some people seem to happen to be in the right place at the right time, and fame or fortune finds them. Then there are others, like Sidney...

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