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Walk through Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood and look down: set into the sidewalks are grids of small glass squares, glowing faintly purple, worn smooth by a century of shoes.…
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Every American kitchen once contained a box that told the truth about summer: keeping anything cold required somebody, somewhere, to have harvested winter itself — sawed it from a…
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The story everyone knows goes like this: a grieving widow, told by a Boston medium that the ghosts of everyone killed by Winchester rifles would haunt her unless she…
Every American summer runs on the same dessert lineup — the campfire s'more, the drugstore banana split, the ice cream sandwich melting faster than anyone can eat it — and…
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Somewhere in your town — possibly on your street, possibly under your own roof — there's a good chance a house arrived by train. Not the lumber for a…
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Every city keeps a story that outsiders refuse to believe until they look it up. Boston's is the one about the molasses.
It goes like this: on an unseasonably…
