Boston's Citizenship Day attracts fewer applicants amid tense immigration climate
The annual event in Roxbury saw 158 aspiring citizens complete their applications, half the number from last year.
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Wicked Strange: The hermit of the White Mountains
English Jack sold postcards and copies of his autobiography to visitors. -
The world’s first modern rocket launched from a cabbage farm in Massachusetts 100 years ago
Robert Goddard is known as the father of modern rocketry, but at the time, many people mocked his ideas around space exploration. -
New festival takes classical music off the stage and into the mud
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What do laid-off workers, immigrants and Gateway Cities have in common? Money worries.
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Boston-area movie critic explains why ‘Sinners’ should win Best Picture at the Oscars
Sarah G. Vincent says of “Sinners" that "it is amazing in the way that it transcends time, ethnicity, nationalities ... And then also on top of it it's a musical and they're vampires."
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