The “Boston Molassacre”
When we think of potential disasters in the Northeast during the winter months, we think of snow-related problems, but on January 15, 1919, the force that Bostonians had to reckon with was fiery hot molasses.
Quick Takes
A Few Facts About New Year’s
• Besides Auld Lang Syne
, other popular songs for New Year’s are It was a Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra), Imagine by John Lennon, and What a Wonderful World made popular by Louis Armstrong.
The Most Famous Song that No One Knows the Words To…
Given the season, you may already have guessed that “Auld Lang Syne” is the song to which I’m referring.
Remember Store Holiday Windows or a Visit to Santa?
Do you remember being promised a special trip “downtown” to see the holiday windows? Before there were malls, there were family trips to downtown department stores, where the windows offered …
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Layaway Plans Are Back
This year retailers are again offering “layaway plans” as a mechanism to stimulate sales.
P.T. Barnum Was Really Something
I have read some stories of P.T. Barnum but over the weekend I came upon one I had not heard… about how he got his start promoting a slave whom he claimed was George Washington’s mammy.
