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It Happened in Boston Julia Clinger

It Happened in Boston By Julia Clinger

It Happened in Boston by Julia Clinger


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Summary

Step off the Freedom Trail to explore lesser-known landscapes in Boston's history. A city of statesmen and scoundrels, freedom fighters and reactionaries, innovators and iconoclasts, The Hub comes alive in twenty-seven colorful stories from the Indian plague that preceded the first Puritan settlement to the leaky last stages of the Big Dig.

It Happened in Boston Summary

It Happened in Boston by Julia Clinger

From a witch hanging on Boston Common to the first time two brides legally walked down the aisle together, It Happened in Boston offers a unique look at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Beantown. Learn about the incredible, 300-mile journey that led to the British evacuation of Boston in 1776. Meet the heroic soldiers of the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth, the first African-American regiment to take up arms in the Civil War. And read the rap sheets of Boston's most notorious criminals, including the slippery thieves who stripped $300 million in art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Step off the Freedom Trail to explore lesser-known landscapes in Boston's history. A city of statesmen and scoundrels, freedom fighters and reactionaries, innovators and iconoclasts, The Hub comes alive in twenty-seven colorful stories.

About Julia Clinger

Julia Clinger has written exhaustively about Boston for publications both local and national.

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GOR010628311
9780762741342
0762741341
It Happened in Boston by Julia Clinger
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
20070801
160
N/A
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