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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…
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For 27 years, ordinary travelers, admittedly, ordinary travelers with extraordinary budgets, could cross the Atlantic faster than a rifle bullet, sipping champagne at the edge of space aboard the…
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Ask Americans to name the great migrations that built the country and you'll hear about Ellis Island, the Oregon Trail, the Great Migration north. Almost nobody mentions the trains…
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Every American kitchen had one drawer that belonged to no category at all, the junk drawer, a sliding museum of string, spare parts, and just-in-case items that somehow contained…
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Before automatic washers and dryers became universal, doing the family laundry was a genuine all-day event, often assigned its own day of the week, that involved specialized equipment, real…